Mitchum by Christian ‘Blutch’ Hincker - TRADE RATING

By Bruno Savill De Jong — “Don’t be afraid”, a hulking semi-demonic sailor tells a tied-up woman, “We just want to look”. Mitchum is full of such sickly voyeurism, an erratic sketchbook of stories bound together with acts of artists observing and illustrating female models. This collection from French cartoonist Christian Hincker, also known as ‘Blutch’, depicts this feverish and often sexually-charged relationship between artist and image, obsessively attempting to pin down primal urges which quickly slip away.

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