Kleine West Coast Blues

Jacques Tardi and Jean-Patrick Manchette's Kleine West Coast Blues is a taut, single-issue graphic novel from Dutch publisher Oog & Blik, launched in 2007. Tardi both writes and illustrates this hardboiled crime story, adapting Manchette's spare, violent prose into his signature clear-line style. A concise, atmospheric thriller, it stands as a potent example of the European néo-polar tradition in comics.