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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
''The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec'' () is a historical fantasy comic book series first appearing in 1976 written and illustrated by French comics artist Jacques Tardi and published in ''album'' format by Belgian publisher Casterman, sometimes preceded by serialisation in various periodicals, intermittently since then. The comic portrays the titular far-fetched adventures and mystery-solving of its eponymous heroine, herself a writer of popular fiction, in a secret history-infused, gaslamp fantasy version of the early 20th century, set primarily in Paris and prominently incorporating real-life locations and events. Initially a light-hearted parody of such fiction of the period, it takes on a darker tone as it moves into the post–World War I years and the 1920s.
One of Tardi's most popular works and his first to span multiple ''albums'', it has been reprinted in English and other translations and is being adapted as a big-budget film trilogy.
==History==
''Adèle Blanc-Sec'' takes place in the same fictional universe as three earlier Tardi comics: ''Adieu Brindavoine'' ("Farewell Brindavoine"), serialised in 1972 in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Pilote'' #680–700, its direct sequel ''La Fleur au fusil'' ("The Flower in the Rifle"), a ten-page one-shot first published in 1974 in ''Pilote'' No. 743 and included in ''albums'' of the former, and the 1974 original graphic novel ''The Arctic Marauder'' (''Le Démon des glaces'', "The Demon of the Ice"). It is, however, the more technology-focused, what might now be called steampunk, ''Arctic Marauder'' that takes place first in the fictional continuity, being set in the 1890s,〔 with Lucien Brindavoine's adventures, considered a less refined, early prototype for Adèle's, occurring during the World War I hiatus in ''Adèles story line.
''Adèle'' itself came about as a consequence of a commission from Casterman for a multi-''album'' series, something Tardi had not been particularly interested in pursuing of his own accord at the time but took them up on the offer. A survey of popular series demonstrated an abundance of strong male protagonists but women in the lead role represented only by, on the one hand, the ingenuous Bécassine and, on the other, the primarily sexual Barbarella; thus, he sought to differentiate his series by centring it on a heroine every bit the equal of these other comics' heroes. Contradictorily, however, and in particular contrast to Forest's ''Barbarella'', he was also to set the series in the 1910s of Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin, when her independence would be even more extraordinary. And so he created… Edith Rabatjoie and, subsequently, Adèle Blanc-Sec (her family name coming from wine terminology, meaning "dry white") as an adversary for her. But upon the originally villainous Blanc-Sec coming into the comic he found he enjoyed drawing her far more than Rabatjoie and so she became the protagonist and title character, while ever since retaining something of a Lupin-esque moral dubiousness and disregard for the law. Her green coat, as well as complementing her red hair, is in ironic reference to the green dress of Bécassine, whom she is partly conceived as an antithesis of. The comic first appeared in the daily newspaper ''Sud-Ouest'' in 1976, with the pages in colour on Sundays and black and white on others, prior to ''album'' publication in colour throughout by Casterman and later in their ''(À suivre)''.〔
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