Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell

In Jacques Tardi’s taut graphic thriller for Fantagraphics, a lone man is hunted through a dystopian urban landscape, his desperate flight a visceral response to a nameless, crushing threat. Adapted from Jean-Patrick Manchette’s novel by Doug Headline and Tardi, this 2015 one-shot distills the paranoia and violence of 1970s French crime fiction into stark, kinetic panels. A masterwork of atmosphere and tension, it showcases Tardi’s signature linework and storytelling at its most urgent.