Mitchum
  • Published: 7 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781681374444
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 232
  • RRP: $59.99
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A star of French comics imagines America--its movie stars, its history, its fashion--in these tantalizing graphic short stories about everything from love to, yes, the actor Robert Mitchum.

A star of French comics imagines America--its movie stars, its history, its fashion--in these tantalizing graphic short stories about everything from love to, yes, the actor Robert Mitchum.

Blutch is one of the most inventive storytellers in comics, and nothing reveals it like Mitchum. Serialized and collected in the mid-90s and never before available in English, this is Blutch at his most wide-ranging: from Puritan fever dreams to an encounter with a shape-shifting Robert Mitchum, Blutch builds stories out of his dreams, visions of America, and anything else he can get his hands on.

Drawn in his unmistakable line that veers in a moment from crude to elegant, blotchy to crisp, horrific to serene, these comics show Blutch searching for new artistic frontiers. What he finds is sometimes surprising, occasionally unsettling, and endlessly fascinating.
  • Published: 7 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781681374444
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 232
  • RRP: $59.99
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Praise for Mitchum

"One of our greatest artists." --L'Express

"[Blutch's] work has tremendously inspired myself and an endless line of cartoonists, humbled by the virtuosity of [his] lush brushwork. It's long overdue for [his] books to be translated into English." --Craig Thompson

"In the hands of the amazing Mr. Hincker (who uses the pseudonym Blutch), a simple pencil takes on the qualities of a magic wand." --The New York Times

"One of the greatest living cartoonists (and if you don't think Blutch fits this bill you really, really need to read more Blutch)." --The Comics Reporter

"One of the most important European cartoonists of the past 20 years." --Robot 6

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