Lucky Luke puts racism in the shade
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Detail of the cover of Lucky Luke's comic strip "Un cow-boy dans le coton", by Jul and Achdé.
Credit: Lucky Comics
By: Jean-François Cadet Follow
51 min
Third collaboration between designer Achdé and screenwriter Jul, “Un cowboy dans le coton” marks the return of the famous Lucky Luke to the segregated southern United States at the end of the 19th century.
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It is a night scene, lit by the full moon.
Standing in the dazzling whiteness of the cotton fields, a cowboy, white hat on his head, yellow shirt, black jacket, blue jeans and red scarf.
He pulled out his pistol.
You will have recognized Lucky Luke.
But if, on this cover, he appears far from home, he is not alone.
In the distance, four hooded members of the Ku Klux Klan, armed with flaming sticks.
And at his side, a sheriff, or rather a black marshall, with his yellow star and big mustaches.
For the first time, Lucky Luke will find himself confronted with racial segregation and racism against African Americans.
The album "Un cow-boy dans le coton", signed
Jul
and
Achdé
is available at Lucky Comics.
Report:
Direction the south of France with
Marjorie Bertin
who will be all week in Avignon as part of
the Arts Week
.
The coronavirus epidemic got the better of the famous Theater Festival this summer.
His team decided to bring it to life during the All Saints holidays.
Shows in the In, those in the theaters of the city and a few others in the Off.
A week that VMDN could not miss.
Marjorie Bertin went to see the play
Traces,
by Felwine Sarr with the Burkinabè actor Étienne Minoungou.
The lucid and dense history of African Nations.
The play will be played at the Lambert Collection until tomorrow, then at the Récrétéatrales in Ouagadougou, and on tour.
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