Many years ago, Jacques Tardi was introduced to American audiences with “Manhattan,” a grim and grimy story of depression, madness and suicide in New York City whose appearance in the premiere issue of RAW magazine was instrumental in defining both that magazine’s virtuoso aesthetic and its dark sensibility. Three decades later, New York Mon Amour collects “Manhattan”and three other tales of the Big Apple - rendered by Tardi with just as much panache and you-are-there detail as Paris or the trenches of World War I in his other books - in one spectacular volume. Aside from “Manhattan,” the centerpiece of the book is the graphic novel “Cockroach Killer,” written by Benjamin Legrand. The book is rounded off with two short stories written by Dominique Grange: “It’s So Hard” and “The Killing of Hung”.
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