"Lucky Luke and the blacks?" It didn't exist and it was time! "Tweeted Monday Jul, writer of the series for two and now three albums. Indeed, the next album of the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow will finally highlight the black Americans. "The stories of Lucky Luke are supposed to take place during the American Civil War, and beyond, yet African Americans are never represented in the albums, except in a marginal way", explained the author of this new Un cow -boy in cotton , scheduled for October 23 at Lucky Comics, a Dargaud subsidiary.
Lucky Luke and the blacks? It didn't exist and it was time! The next album "A Cowboy in Cotton" immerses the series in the segregationist South for the first time ... See you in October for this little revolution that we expected! @EditionsDargaud pic.twitter.com/gEFtNOGCIC
- Jul_auteur (@jul_auteur) June 15, 2020Lucky Luke against the Ku Klux Klan
Always drawn, like the previous ones The promised land and A cowboy in Paris , by Achdé, A cowboy in cotton was designed well before the death of George Floyd, specifies Jul. The cover shows Lucky Luke, gun in hand, in a cotton field next to a black sheriff. In the background, we can see the disturbing figures of four members of the Ku Klux Klan with lit torches.
The story takes place in Louisiana. Lucky Luke inherited ... a huge cotton plantation. Welcomed by white planters as one of their own, Lucky Luke will have to fight to redistribute his heritage to black farmers. In this fight against the powerful of the region and against racial segregation, he will be, against all odds, supported by the Dalton, yet come to eliminate him and by the Cajuns of the bayou, these Whites left behind by the prosperity of the South. But it is only thanks to the help of an astonishing figure of the Wild West that Lucky Luke will succeed in restoring justice.
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This unfortunately forgotten figure is Bass Reeves, an authentic character who made history for being the first black man to be appointed deputy sheriff west of the Mississippi. Born into a slave family, Bass Reeves was considered one of the best triggers of his time. He has to his credit the arrest of more than 3,000 criminals.
Created by Morris in 1946, scripted by René Goscinny from the mid-1950s, Lucky Luke is one of the myths of Franco-Belgian comics. Since its creation, more than 300 million albums of the lone cowboy have been sold worldwide. The series is translated into 29 languages.
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