This guided tour with Anette Gehrig through the work of Jacques Tardi, born in 1946 in Valence, presents one of the world’s most influential comics artists. With his round, strong ligne claire, Jacques Tardi has adapted Léo Malet’s crime novels, sent his own heroine Adèle Blanc-Sec on fantastical adventures and told the story of the Paris Commune.

The retrospective at Cartoonmuseum Basel shows over 200 original drawings from all of this artist’s periods of work and, as a special highlight, includes the first-ever presentation of originals from volume 3 of “Stalag II B”, which will be published shortly.