comic
Genres:
Graphic Novels
; Music
Writers:
Blutch
Publishers:
Fantagraphics Books
Artists:
Blutch
Status: completed
Latest chapter:
TPB
Updated at:
Apr 05, 2018
Summary:
Blutch riffs on two quintessentially American art forms — jazz and comics. In this freewheeling collection of short stories and vignettes, the famed French cartoonist examines not only the music, but the nature of the jazz sub-culture. The grumpy festival goer, the curmudgeonly collector, and many other fan “types” are the targets of his unerring gimlet eye. Drawn in a range of styles as improvisational as Coltrane and Mingus ― everything from loose linework to tight pen and ink to gestural pencils ― Blutch captures the excitement of live performance, the lovelorn, and the Great Jazz Detective, who is out but not down.