french comics

French Comic Artist Blutch Makes an Experiment of ‘Mitchum’

French Comic Artist Blutch Makes an Experiment of ‘Mitchum’

The images in Blutch's Mitchum are technically cartoons, but the style is idiosyncratic, sometimes warping into full abstraction.

It’s Rare to Find Horror Executed So Perfectly in Graphic Fiction As It Is in ‘Beautiful Darkness’

It’s Rare to Find Horror Executed So Perfectly in Graphic Fiction As It Is in ‘Beautiful Darkness’

If you're used to the blood splatter of slasher films or the evil monsters of supernatural thrillers, be warned: Beautiful Darkness covers an abyss of horrors far deeper.

One Can Really Relate to Emma’s ‘The Mental Load’

One Can Really Relate to Emma’s ‘The Mental Load’

French cartoonist Emma raises issues of inequality within French society with humor and humanity, using short statements accompanied by disarmingly charming cartoons that point out the absurdities of some common social conventions and beliefs.