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.