Blutch

Blutch pen name of Christian Hincker born 27 December 1967 in Strasbourg is a French comic book author He is considered one of the main authors of French comics since the early 1990s After studying at Decorative Arts in Strasbourg Blutch was discovered through a competition organized by the monthly magazine Fluide glacial He got his nickname from a classmate for his physical resemblance to Corporal Blutch one of the heroes of the Tuniques bleues His first strips appeared in Fluide Glacial between 1988 and 1993 Pecos Jim Waldos Bar Mademoiselle Sunnymoon From 1993 he was part of the circle of cartoonists working for the independent comic book publisher LAssociation In 1996 he joined A Suivre magazine where he designed the historical Péplum series Rancho Bravo with JeanLouis 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 twovolume autobiography about his childhood in Le petit Christian 19982008 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 dAngoulême that made Blutch president of the Angoulême comic festival in 2010 Source Article Blutch from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30