Lucky Luke plunges into segregation America with a cowboy in cotton

Surely Jul did not expect to aim as fair. Screenwriter of Lucky Luke's two previous albums, La Terre promise (2016) and Un cow-boy à Paris (2018), he and his drawing partner Achdé are about to publish a new album whose theme resonates with the death of George Floyd and the outbreak of anti-racist protests in the United States. The next album of "The one who shoots faster than his shadow" is called A cowboy in cotton . What synchronicity ...

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" I have been working on this scenario for more than four years and I want to clarify it, well before the death of George Floyd, explains Julien Bergeaut dit Jul. This time, this new album finally highlights black Americans. Lucky Luke's stories are supposed to take place during the American Civil War, and beyond. However, African-Americans are never represented in the albums, except in an anecdotal and marginal way. ”

Jul points out that over the 80 albums in the series, blacks have only made appearances

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