Jacques Tardi Employs Newspaper Serialization in Advance of WWI Book

I may be reading this article wrong, but it seems like there are a couple of things worthy of note about this story on Jacques Tardi's forthcoming book on World War I with the historian Jean-Pierre Verney, Journal de Guerre (Tardi and Verney actually work separately on individual sections). One is that everyone is expecting an album from Tardi on this subject on its 90th anniversary in a way that indicates both the importance of that conflict on European history and on Tardi's imagining of that conflict as a primary way by which people process that historical information. That's totally mush-mouthed, but what I'm getting at is that this is a big deal in Europe and the fact that through Tardi's work is the way that many people see the conflict is again, a big deal. Another thing about the original story is that in the ramp-up to the book's October release it looks like they're doing more with that newspaper tabloid format that Tardi used to positive effect with his Secret de l'entrangleur work, doing fifteen pages of comic and illustrated history per year that way. I can't think of exact North American equivalents for either the scope or the nature of the serialization. An added bonus at the link is the image they scanned, which is the first I've seen from the project -- I've reproduced a thumbnail of it in this post that will hopefully encourage you to go look.

thanks to Kim Thompson for the prompt corrections
 
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