Blutch
Blutch , actually Christian Hincker , (born December 27, 1967 in Strasbourg ) is a French comic book author. He is considered one of the most important French comic strip artists of the 1990s.
biography
Blutch spent his youth in Strasbourg. He completed his studies at the Arts-Décoratifs de Strasbourg in the early 1980s with a diploma. He was discovered in 1988 in a competition organized by the humor magazine Fluide Glacial . He got his nickname from a classmate for resembling one of the heroes of the comic series The Blue Boys .
His first strips appeared in Fluide Glacial between 1988 and 1993 ( Pecos Jim , Waldo's Bar , Mademoiselle Sunnymoon ). From 1993 he was part of the circle of cartoonists working for the independent comic book publisher L'Association . In 1996 he joined A Suivre magazine , where he designed the historical Péplum series . Rancho Bravo (with Jean-Louis Capron ) and Blotch (two issues), a satirical portrait of Fluide Glacial magazine and its illustrators , appeared in the late 1990s . He underlined his versatility with the two-volume autobiography about his childhood in Der kleine Christian (1998/2008) or with the comic novels Vitesse Moderne (2002) and La Volupté (2006).
In 2002, Blutch received the Prix international de la Ville de Genève pour la bande dessinée for Vitesse Moderne , and in 2009 the Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême , making Blutch president of the Angoulême comic festival in 2010 .
Works (in German)
- Blotch. The King of Paris . Avant, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939080-34-3
- Little Christian . Reprodukt, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941099-15-9
- Donjon Monster. 7. The dragon woman's son . Reprodukt, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941099-09-8
- Peplum . Avant, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-939080-44-2
- One last word about cinema . Reprodukt, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95640-062-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Blutch in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Festival d'Angoulême Blutch: Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême 2009. (. No longer available online) February 1st 2009, archived from the original on 15 October 2009 ; Retrieved November 11, 2009 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hans Keller: Christian Hincker alias Blutch, Diebische Freude an der Immorality. TheTitle, April 14, 2009, accessed November 11, 2009 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blutch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |