Comic strip: "A cowboy in the cotton", Lucky Luke against the Ku Klux Klan
Bass Reeves, the first black man to be appointed sheriff west of the Mississippi, will come to help Lucky Luke in his fight against racial segregation.
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Text by: Sophie Torlotin Follow
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Lucky Luke, the legend of the West imagined by the Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1944, the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow is back.
Lucky Luke's new album is in bookstores this weekend.
Its title: A cowboy in cotton.
For the first time, he stages this genius of the trigger in Louisiana, alongside former black slaves.
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This is the first time, in some 80 albums and 72 years of existence, that black characters have landed a lead role in a Luky Luke album.
The lone cowboy discovers that he has inherited an old admirer who bequeaths him his cotton plantation in Louisiana.
Always flanked by his horse Joly Jumper, the four Dalton escaped from the penitentiary after him, the man who shoots faster than his shadow leaves Kansas for the former slave state.
Straight and upright, Lucky Luke intends to cede the domain to the former slaves, but he will have a lot to do with his neighbors, hateful and racist, members of the Ku Klux Klan.
This comic book album resonates with the hottest news in the United States, where the racial question appears central after police violence and the resurgence of the
Black Lives matter
movement
.
However, it has been four years since screenwriter Jul tackled this story.
Served by Achdé's fluid drawing, this album manages to make people laugh while teaching about the reality of slavery.
Friday in bookstores, find Un cow-boy dans le coton, Lucky Luke's new adventure by Achdé and @jul_auteur! Https: //t.co/pvPce1S0pv pic.twitter.com/9IsT5KD5bh
Editions Dargaud (@EditionsDargaud) October 20, 2020
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