The Arctic Marauder HC Fantagraphics – Very Good
VERY GOOD –Book is in Very Good condition with some shelf wear, light loss of gloss, etc but no major issues like creases, missing pages, water damage, ripped cover, etc. Book likely has a remainder mark.
Creators: Tardi
Publisher: Fantagraphics
ISBN: 9781606994351
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: p64 pages
On Sale Date: 4/5/2011
Dimensions: 11.8 in H | 9.3 in W | 0.6 in T | 1.4 lb Wt
Rating: Ages 16 And Up
Spectacular faux-woodcut vistas make Tardis groundbreaking icepunk story a retro classic.
In its ongoing quest to showcase the wide range of Jacques Tardis bibliography, Fantagraphics reaches all the way back to one of his earliest, and most distinctive graphic novels: A satirical, Jules Vernes-esque retro-sci-fi yarn executed on scratchboard in a stunningly detailed faux-woodcut style perfectly chosen to render the Edwardian-era mechanical marvels on display. Created in 1972, The Arctic Marauder is a downright prescient example of proto-steampunk science fiction or perhaps more accurately, and to coin a spinoff genre, icepunk.
In 1899, LAnjou, a ship navigating the Arctic Ocean from Murmansk, Russia, to Le Havre, France comes across a stunning sight: A ghostly, abandoned vessel perched high atop an iceberg. But exploring this strange apparition is the last thing the sailors will ever do, as their own ship is soon dispatched to Davy Jones locker via a mysterious explosion.
Enter Jrme Plumier, whose search for his missing uncle, the inventor Louis-Ferdinand Chapoutier, brings him into contact with the sinister, frigid forces behind this and soon he too is headed towards the North Pole, where he will content with mad scientists, monsters of the deep, and futuristic submarines and flying machines. Told with brio in hilarious slabs of vintage purple prose, The Arctic Marauder works both as ripping good adventure story and parody of same, and, predating as it does the later and not dissimilar Adle Blanc-Sec series, is a keystone in Tardis oeuvre in his fantastical mode.
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