Blutch, pen name of Christian Hincker (born 27 December 1967 in Strasbourg) is a French comic book author.

After studying at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, Blutch was discovered through a competition organized by the monthly magazine Fluide Glacial.

He got his nickname from a classmate for his physical resemblance to Corporal Blutch, one of the characters of the comic series Les Tuniques Bleues.

[2]  Rancho Bravo (with Jean-Louis Capron) and Blotch (two issues), a satirical portrait of Fluide Glacial magazine and its illustrators, appeared in the late 1990s.

He underlined his versatility with the two-volume autobiography about his childhood in Le petit Christian (1998/2008) or with the comic novels Vitesse Moderne (2002) and La Volupté (2006).