874 - BOMC: It Was the War of the Trenches

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🗓️ 29 June 2010

⏱️ 99 minutes

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For International Month, we present French cartoonist Jacques Tardi's powerful tale of World War I, It Was the War of the Trenches. With the help of Fantagraphics VP and Co-Publisher Kim Thompson, Editor and Translator of the Tardi line of books here in the US, we learn more about the author, his art and other projects. (1:39:24)

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0:00.0	This is Comic Geekspeak, episode 874, Book of the Month Club.
0:04.8	It was the War of the Trenches.
0:17.1	Welcome to Comic Geek Speak.
0:18.5	I'm Brian Deemer.
0:19.1	I'm Shane Kelly.
0:19.8	I'm Brian Christman.
0:20.6	I'm Peter Rios. And thank Shane Kelly. I'm Brian Christman. I'm Peter Rios.
0:21.5	And thank you for joining us.
0:24.6	It's once again time for a book of the month club.
0:27.3	And this time we selected a book put out from Fan of Graphics.
0:33.1	It was The War of the Trenches by Jacques Tardy.
0:36.4	And to help us discuss this book, we have on the phone Mr. Kim Thompson, co-pubbuchar for Fanagraphis.
0:45.1	Welcome to the show.
0:46.4	Thank you very much for having me.
0:49.2	So let's start off.
0:52.3	First of all, this is a new format, a new category in the entry of the book of the month.
0:58.3	We do mainstream, and we did our own choice.
1:02.3	We shied away from manga, and we decided to wrap it all up into International Month.
1:08.3	And this was certainly a great first, you know, comic venture to do. We talked to
1:18.3	Jack Cohen over at Fan of Graphics, and she said, that's a great selection. And she goes, and she
1:23.4	mentioned Kim to bring on the show to help us talk about it.
1:29.1	So International Month will be a new month in our rotation of Book of the Month Club,
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