Jul hadn't expected to aim so tight.
Writer of the last two Lucky Luke,
The Promised Land
and
A cowboy in Paris
, he publishes an album with the designer Achdé.
Entitled
Un cow-boy dans le coton,
it resonates with the news, ten days before the American presidential election.
A cowboy in cotton
, by Jul and Achdé.
Lucky Comics
“I was working on this scenario long before the murder of George Floyd, the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement or the rise of white supremacists,
explains Julien Bergeaut, says Jul.
Originally, I wanted to send Lucky Luke to Louisiana, the land of Mark Twain and
Gone with the Wind
.
Blacks are almost absent from his adventures.
This invisibility stunned me.
I managed to keep the joy and pleasure of reading that is
Lucky Luke,
while addressing a crime against humanity, slavery and the slave trade… ”
At the heart of this plot, printed in 500,000 copies, our solitary cowboy inherits a plantation
The cover shows Lucky Luke with a handgun in a cotton field next to a black sheriff.
At the bottom, four disturbing figures of the Ku Klux Klan.
At
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