You are There

The Satirical Masterpiece That Ushered in the Graphic Novel Era to European Comics

They stole his ancestral lands of Mornemont, leaving him only the walls that subdivided them... Now poor half-mad Arthur There spends his days and nights atop these walls, eking out a meager living by charging gate tolls to those who have defrauded him, while plotting to regain his property. But little does he know that world-changing events in faraway Paris are about to spill over into his world…

Sprawling, slyly funny, sardonically satirical, and sumptuously drawn, Tardi and Jean-Claude Forest’s You Are There was hailed as a groundbreaking graphic novel upon its release forty years ago and remains as fresh, unique, and provocative as the day it was drawn.