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Originally serialized between 1996 and 1999, Blutch\u2019s comic <\/i>Mitchum\u00a0plays host to the legendary French cartoonist\u2019s virtuosic range. Modulating from harried pen work on one page to lush, blocky tableaux on the next, he sorts through the surreal stew of his subconscious in dreamlike episodes, mixing in bits of American pop culture along the way\u2014including, at one point, a sinister, lascivious Jimmy Stewart lurking in the shroud of a detective\u2019s trench coat. \u201c<\/em>Mitchum was my laboratory at a certain point,\u201d Blutch said in a 2016 interview with the journalist Paul Gravett<\/a>. \u201cEvery kind of experiment was permitted. Their success or failure were secondary.\u201d This week, New York Review Comics released the first complete English translation of<\/em>\u00a0Mitchum<\/a>. An excerpt appears below.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Blutch (born Christian Hincker) is an award-winning, highly influential French cartoonist. He has published almost two dozen books since his 1988 debut in the legendary avant-garde magazine <\/em>Fluide Glacial, including <\/em>Le petit Christian, <\/em>So Long, <\/em>Silver Screen, and <\/em>Peplum. His illustrations have appeared in <\/em>Les Inrockuptibles, <\/em>Lib\u00e9ration, and <\/em>The New Yorker.<\/em><\/p>\n

From <\/em>Mitchum<\/a>, by Blutch, translated from the French by Matt Madden, English lettering by Dean Sudarsky. Images courtesy of New York Review Comics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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