A powerful, perfectionist, realistic linework, where attention to detail serves an almost painterly vision of the Western.
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Even before beginning his career as a comic artist, Michel Blanc-Dumont worked for three years alongside his father, who was then the finest furniture restorer in Paris. Combined with his studies in applied arts, this sensitivity to imagery instilled in him the precision of a craftsman and a passion for detail that would never leave him. At the same time, a passion was growing within him that would become his signature: the history of the American West and the culture of the Plains Indians, coupled with a love of horses and horsemanship that would make him a rider as passionate as he was perfectionist. In short, the Western genre would become a way of life for him... Complete biography