Roach Killer by Jacques Tardi
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Tardi has a knack for drawing specific periods and contexts. New York in the 80's looks particularly sinister and hopeless in the main story of this graphic novel. The simple, efficient plot brings out a striking image of a destroyed working class.
The main character was raised in the Bronx after WWII. He is now working as a pest killer in lower Manhattan. Equally rejected by the middle-classes who wallow in their new wealth and by the sordid ghettos which violence turns against anyone who, here and now, does not belong to their petty world, he ends up victim of a blind conspiracy. A masterpiece.
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