Ô dingos, ô châteaux !

In 2011, Futuropolis published a single, striking volume that adapts Jean-Patrick Manchette’s hardboiled crime novel Ô dingos, ô châteaux !, with legendary artist Tardi both writing and illustrating. The story follows a traumatized young woman and a mysterious child as they flee through a stark, violent French landscape, blending Manchette’s terse, existential pulp with Tardi’s signature gritty, expressive linework. This collaboration between two titans of French noir—Manchette, the master of the néo-polar, and Tardi, the definitive visual interpreter of his work—stands as a taut, atmospheric distillation of their shared vision.