Blutch: So Long, Silver Screen

Blutch: So Long, Silver Screen

What are the movies? What effect do they have on us? Why do we love them so much? The influential, award-winning French cartoonist Blutch (born 1967) addresses these questions in a series of interlocking short comics that combine scholarly history with ribald romanticism, and feature a motley cast of actors and characters, including Claudia Cardinale, Jean-Luc Godard, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Michel Piccoli, Tarzan and Luchino Visconti. Blutch has published over a dozen books since debuting in 1988 in the legendary avant-garde magazine <I>Fluide Glacial</I>: among his books are <I>Mitchum</I>, <I>Peplum</I> and <I>Le Petit Christian</I>, and his illustrations regularly appear in <I>Les Inrockuptibles</I>, <I>Libération</I> and <I>The New Yorker</I>. As much visual essay as graphic novel, a daydream and fantastic meditation on the other art of telling stories with images, <I>So Long, Silver Screen</I> is the finest work yet from an uncontested master of contemporary cartooning, as well as his first full-length work to be published in English. It is designed by famed cartoonist David Mazzucchelli.