Like a Sniper Lining Up his Shot

By Jacques Tardi & Jean-Patrick Manchette. Published by Fantagraphics.

Hardcover, 104 pages, B&W, 2011 (originally published 1981)

With Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot, Tardi, at the top of his form, once again puts his lushly efficient neo-clear-line style in the service of Manchette’s gleefully brisk prose for a spectacularly dark, violent and fastpaced crime thriller that will delight fans of their previous collaboration, West Coast Blues.