Lucky Luke, now US blacks in the foreground

(ANSA) - PARIS, JUNE 15 - Lucky Luke's next album, the lone co-boy who "shoots faster than his shadow", will bring American blacks to the fore. This was announced by the screenwriter of the series created more than 70 years ago by the Belgian Morris. "Lucky Luke's stories are expected to unfold during the American civil war and beyond, and yet African Americans are never represented on albums, except in a marginal way," explained Jul. In over 80 albums in the series, neric appear sporadically, often without words. The album "Uncowboy in cotton was conceived long before George Floyd's death," said Jul. The album cover shows Lucky Luke, the gun in his hand, in a cotton field next to a black sheriff. In the background, the disturbing figures of four Ku Klux Klan members with burning torches.
   Lucky Luke inherited a cotton plantation in Lousiana.
   Welcomed by white planters as one of their own, Lucky Luk will have to fight to redistribute his legacy to the peasants.