Goddamn This War!

Jacques Tardi’s Goddamn This War! (2013, Fantagraphics) is a single-issue graphic novel that distills the horror and futility of World War I through Tardi’s signature stark, expressionistic art. Written by Tardi alongside translators Helge Dascher and John Kadlecek, this uncompromising work uses a soldier’s harrowing experience to indict the senseless slaughter of the trenches. A masterwork of French bande dessinée, it stands as a visceral, anti-war testament from one of the medium’s great historical chroniclers.