Blutch

Tegneserie - graphic novel. An epic of ancient Rome. At the edge of the empire, a gang of bandits discovers the body of a beautiful woman in a cave; she is encased in ice but may still be alive. One of the bandits, bearing a stolen name and with the frozen maiden still in tow, makes his way toward Rome - seeking power, or maybe just survival, as the world unravels

Peplum

Il piccolo Christian

Traversant Bruxelles-City d’un pas hésitant, ignorant les conseils d’un vieux sage, B cherche A. Garçonne, venue en calèche, sourde aux avertissements d’une comparse de voyage, A cherche B. À l’Hôtel Métropolis, A se cacherait sous le doux nom d’Incartade. B, enchaîné à un poteau, capturé par des Indiens de cinéma, ne peut que la voir s’échapper à l’horizon. Leur quête se poursuit jusqu’à ce qu'ils se retrouvent, s’abandonnant ensemble dans une profonde intimité, ouvrant la voie à un amour intense, absolu.

Dans ces pages somptueusement réalisées, dans une mise en couleur directe à l'encre, un couple se cherche, se forme et cherche à se donner forme. 

Après La volupté, ou C'était le bonheur, Blutch célèbre la rencontre amoureuse, dans une romance traversée par un sentiment d’urgence, vécue sur un rythme haletant.

La mer à boire

Robber

Tif et Tondu de Blutch et Robber - Mais où est Kiki ?

Modern-day Paris. One night, as she's leaving rehearsal, Lola, a young dancer, is approached by Renée. She introduces herself as a writer, and asks Lola if she could share her life for a while in order to gather material to write a book about her. Despite not feeling entirely comfortable with the idea, Lola accepts. The very next day, Lola and Renée experience the strangest day of their lives, involving an absent father who reappears at random points throughout the book, a bashful but psychopathic admirer, Omar Shariff, and a huge spider... All this is set against a backdrop of a general power cut, a highly demanding dance class and a very rainy day. In the world of today, where everything goes too quickly, twenty-four hours is sometimes enough to change your life.

Modern Speed

La 4e de couverture indique : "Dans un monde où les hommes naissent libres ou esclaves et dans lequel la beauté des filles s'achète à la criée sur les marchés, un homme court après le bloc de glace qui renferme le mirage de la femme idéale (...) Très librement inspiré du "Satyricon" de Pétrone."

Péplum

Lantz est un dessinateur de BD auteur du Nouveau Nouveau Testament, best-seller dont dépend l’économie entière. En panne d’inspiration, entre autres, il est brusquement débarqué de sa série. Il ne sait pas ce qu’il veut, et ses nombreuses frustrations le rendent misérable. Vie de bureau, usine, pressions en tout genre : de la hiérarchie, des femmes, des responsabilités que l’on s’impose, Lantz nous renvoie à notre quotidien. Réussira-t-il à trouver une voie de sortie honorable ?

Lune l'envers

Edward Gauvin

What are the movies? What effect do they have on us? Why do we love them so much? Blutch addresses all these questions in a series of interlocking short comics that move between scholarly history, romantic theory and ribald vignettes, featuring a motley cast of actors and topics including Burt Lancaster, Jean-Luc Godard, Claudia Cardinale, Tarzan, and Michel Piccoli. As much a visual essay as it is graphic novel, a daydream and a fantastic meditation on the other art of telling stories with images, So Long, Silverscreen is a new height for an uncontested master.

So Long, Silver Screen

"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 shapeshifting Robert Mitchum, Blutch builds stories out of his dreams, visions of America, and anything else he can get his hands on"--

Mitchum

Blutch riffs on two quintessentially American art forms in this collection of jazz-themed comics. In this freewheeling collection of short stories and vignettes, the famed French cartoonist examines not only the music, but the nature of the jazz sub-culture. The grumpy festival goer, the curmudgeonly collector, and many other fan “types” are the targets of his unerring gimlet eye. Drawn in a range of styles as improvisational as Coltrane and Mingus ― everything from loose linework to tight pen and ink to gestural pencils ― Blutch captures the excitement of live performance, the lovelorn, and the Great Jazz Detective, who is out but not down.

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