• The first of Jacques Tardi's four major graphic novel adaptations of legendary French crime writer Leo Malet.
• Jacques Tardi is widely considered to be the leading European cartoonist of his generation.
• Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge was a historic attempt on Tardi's part to inject a level of literary heft into the comic field.
• This is a meticulously researched visual representation of an authentic Parisian neighbourhood in the 1950s.
• Malet himself frequented the anarchist/vegan hostel that serves as the backdrop for the flashback sequences.