Right, so I did all this in Google Reader and realized I wanted it here too.
BoingBoing highlights a trailer for a forthcoming film by Luc Besson (Fifth Element, among others):
The film is to be called Les Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adele Blanc-Sec and is based on the work of Franco-Belgian comics artist and writer Jacques Tardi.
On Google reader, I initially commented,
OMGEEE
Adele Blanc-Sec is a Victorian-era supersleuth, a kind of anti-Holmes or anti-Irene Adler, originated by the profoundly great and influential francophone comics artist and writer Jacques Tardi.
Besson, of course, worked in B-D (bandes-dessinee, comics) before turning to film, as did the Jeunets. Jean-Pierre Jeunet told me that his film ‘A Very Long Engagement’ was influenced by Tardi, specifically by the adaptations of novels featuring the character Nestor Burma, a private investigator in interwar Paris whose life and views are profoundly shaped by his experiences in the trenches of the Great War.
i think it’s interesting and exciting that Besson and Jeunet, whose styles are flamboyant and extravagantly visual, are both influenced by the relative cool and discipline of Tardi.
I AM EXCITED SIGHT UNSEEN!
and after viewing the (quite promising) trailer, added:
Without nerding out, the characters and situations seen in the trailer appear to be fairly straightforward revisualizations of the originals. Ms. Blanc-Sec is more conventionally attractive in the trailer, but despite her creator’s choice to depict her as an idiosyncratic beauty, she is in ink lovely as well.
And finally, provided a raft of links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Tardi