Moi René Tardi prisonnier de guerre au Stalag IIB #[2]

The second volume of Tardi's deeply personal wartime memoir arrives with a cover rendered in stark black, white, and red — a gaunt older man in a worn coat, pipe in hand and bedroll over his shoulder, walks alongside a young boy against a backdrop of bombed-out ruins and blackened silhouettes. Published by Casterman in 2014, Mon retour en France continues the story of René Tardi's journey home after captivity in Stalag IIB, drawn and written entirely by Jacques Tardi in his characteristically precise, unflinching line work. The cover's muted palette and quiet human figures speak volumes about the weight of survival and the long road back.