Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke is a Cow-boy of Cartoon created by the draftsman and Belgian scenario writer Morris with the any end of the year 1946. The series will know its apogee with the collaboration of Rene Goscinny (scenario writer) between 1957 and 1977.

The first stories were diffused in Spirou of 1946 ( Arizona 1880 ) at 1968 ( Foot-tender the ), then by Pilote of 1967 ( the cousins Dalton ) at 1973 ( the ballade of Dalton ) before appearing in the form of albums.

Characters

In English, the name of the hero means “ Luc the lucky ”. The hero is not only lucky as its name suggests it, but it is as a fine trigger and known like “ the man who draws more quickly as his shade ”, which represents the drawing with the back of the albums where one sees Lucky Luke drawing on his shade whereas this one did not declad yet.

During all its adventures, the costume of Lucky Luke remains immutable: white hat, red scarf, yellow shirt, black waistcoat, jean, boots, belt and Colt.

Lucky Luke meets all the mythical characters of the Far West, initially the four Frères Dalton (who die at the end of the episode in accordance with the history), followed their caricatures, the cousins Dalton, perpetual escaped prisoners of the penitentiary where “day before” the very stupid Chien Rantanplan. One will also see, in very free interpretations, the judge Roy Bean, Jesse James, Frederic Remington, the Mormon community , Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane and even Sarah Bernhardt. Its faithful Cheval Jolly Jumper is, contrary to Rantanplan, particularly intelligent: it sometimes happens to him to play the failures or dice with Lucky Luke (and the horse can cheat very well…). Several times, the goal of Jolly Jumper is to travel, him also, once " with cheval" , then it is able at Lucky Luke to have to carry its horse, because of part of dice lost.

A constant of the albums is the departure of the hero towards the setting sun at the end of the album. Sometimes for the Goscinny period, the two authors had fun to spice their stories of imaginary details with which they associated, malicieusement, an asterisk which returned to “(*) Authentic”.

One also crosses some contemporary personalities in certain albums, in particular Louis de Funès and Patrick Préjean in the Gangster penguin , Jack Palance in Phil Defer in the album of the same name, or Lee Van Cleef in Eliot Belt in Bargain hunter . In the Cursed Ranch , Serge Gainsbourg appears as a drunkard, and Lucky Luke will help an old woman to move in a house called the Bates ranch, like Norman Bates of Psychose . The architecture of the house is in any point similar to that of film of Alfred Hitchcock. Remainder, the large scenario writer will be owner of a saloon in diligence .

Its counterpart of end

“ I' m has poor lonesome cow-boy
and has long far way from home. ”

Setting in music by the jazzman Claude Bolling.

List albums

The 72 albums of the series were published at Dupuis, then at Dargaud (Lucky Productions and Lucky Comics). Here is the list:

At Dupuis

  • 01. the Gold mine of Dick Digger (1949) Morris
  • 02. Rodeo (1949) Morris
  • 03. Arizona (1951) Morris
  • 04. Under the sky of the West (1952) Morris
  • 05. Lucky Luke against Stalemate Poker (1953) Morris
  • 06. Outlaw (1954) Morris
  • 07. Elixir of Doctor Doxey (1955 ) Morris
  • 08. Phil Defer (1956) Morris
  • 09. Of the rails on the meadow (1957) Morris & Goscinny
  • 10. Alarm with the Wood blewits (1958) Morris
  • 11. Lucky Luke against Joss Jamon (1958) Morris & Goscinny
  • 12. The Cousins Dalton (1958) Morris & Goscinny
  • 13. The Judge (1959) Morris & Goscinny
  • 14. Rush on Oklahoma (1960) Morris & Goscinny
  • 15. The Escape from Dalton (1960) Morris
  • 16. By going up the Mississippi (1961) Morris
  • 17. On the track of Dalton (1962) Morris & Goscinny
  • 18. In the shade of the derricks (1962) Morris & Goscinny
  • 19. Rivals of Painful Gulch (1962) Morris & Goscinny
  • 20. Billy the Kid (1962) Morris & Goscinny
  • 21. Black Hills (1963) Morris & Goscinny
  • 22. Dalton in the blizzard (1963) Morris & Goscinny
  • 23. Dalton always run (1964) Morris & Goscinny
  • 24. The Caravan (1964) Morris & Goscinny
  • 25. The phantom City (1965) Morris & Goscinny
  • 26. Dalton repurchase (1965) Morris & Goscinny
  • 27. Twentieth of cavalry (1965) Morris & Goscinny
  • 28. The Escort (1966) Morris & Goscinny
  • 29. Barbed wires on the meadow (1967) Morris & Goscinny
  • 30. Calamity Jane (1967) Morris & Goscinny
  • 31. Twisted for Dalton (1967) Morris & Goscinny

At Dargaud

  • 32. Diligence (03/1968) Morris & Goscinny
  • 33. Foot-tender (07/1968) the Morris & Goscinny
  • 34. Dalton City (01/1969) Morris & Goscinny
  • 35. Jesse James (07/1969) Morris & Goscinny
  • 36. Western Circus (01/1970) Morris & Goscinny
  • 37. Canyon Apache (01/1971) Morris & Goscinny
  • 38. My Dalton (10 1971) Morris & Goscinny
  • 39. Bargain hunter (10 1972) Morris & Goscinny
  • 40. The Large Duke (04/1973) Morris & Goscinny
  • 41. The Heritage of Rantanplan (10 1973) Morris & Goscinny
  • 42. 7 complete stories - series 1 (09/1974) Morris & Goscinny
  • 43. The white Rider (03/1975) Morris & Goscinny
  • 44. Cure of Dalton (07/1975) Morris & Goscinny
  • 45. the Emperor Smith (04/1976) Morris & Goscinny
  • 46. The Wire which sings (10 1977) Morris & Goscinny
  • HS. The Ballade of Dalton (07/1978) Morris & Goscinny
  • 47. The Nest egg of Dalton (03/1980), by Vicq
  • 48. The Gangster penguin (03/1981), by Bob De Groot
  • 49. Sarah Bernhardt (03/1982), by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Mows
  • 50. The Cord of hung (06/1982) Morris & Goscinny
  • 51. Daisy Town (01/1983) Morris & Goscinny
  • 52. Fingers (09/1983), by Lo Hartog Van Bandaged
  • 53. Daily Star (09/1983), by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Mows
  • 54. Been engaged of Lucky Luke (11 1985), by Guy Vidal
  • 55. The Ballade of Dalton and other stories (03/1986) Morris & Others
  • 56. The cursed Ranch (11 1986), by Jean Léturgie, Xavier Mows and Claude Guylouis
  • 57. Nitroglycérine (04/1987), by Lo Hartog Van Banda
  • 58. The Alibi (12 1987), by Claude Guylouis
  • 59. Pony Express train (06/1988), by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Mows

At Lucky Productions

At Lucky Comics

Adventures of Lucky Luke according to Morris

Collection " New adventures of Lucky Luke" , appeared at Hatchet Youth

Others

  • the Battle of rice, titrates generic this album of four stories: Walk in the city, Challenge with Lucky Luke, Arpeggios in the valley, the Battle of rice (published at Total in 1972).
  • Mac at the Indians (published at Esso in 1995)
  • a Sheik in Far West (published at Esso in 1995)
  • Lucky Luke Marie!? (published at Esso in 1995)
  • Lucky Luke and the Piano (published at Rafter in 1976)
  • the French Cook, Lucky Comics (02/2003), by Claude Guylouis (At the time, offered to the purchase of an album)

Anecdote

Goscinny, then appointed scenario writer of the series, wishing to bring together its characters under the same banner, Lucky Luke passed from the editions Dupuis to the editions Dargaud. Morris, a little frustrated lack of dynamism of Dupuis in the promotion of its character, ended up accepting this migration. Well took some to him: Dargaud, already made rich by Goscinny and, inter alia, its Astérix, invested much in the commercial development of Lucky Luke, by making the third larger success of edition of the time, after Tintin and the small Gallic one.

Cinema and television

The series was also carried to the cinema and on television. Not to run up against the American public, the hero had to exchange his eternal cigarette end for a grass bit, which it had already done in the albums drawn by concern of not giving the example of a hero smoker to the young readers. In the same way, certain “stereotypes” were removed: “Chinese launderers or restorers” or “Mexicans making the nap”

Lastly, Lucky Luke was the hero of a film of cinema in 1991. The actor Terence Hill put it in scene while incarnating the character titrates, but it was a failure. The humorists Eric and Ramzy raised the torch by writing a new scenario: Dalton . Realized by Philippe Haim, the film left for the festivals Christmas 2004. Although the two humorists pretexted a homage to the work of Morris, the film abounds in accessories mild nutters such as for example a magic hat, which is completely out of the spirit of the cartoon of origin. Most of the media, especially in Belgium from where the draftsman is originating, fustigated the duet of humorists by showing them to exploit in a very bad way an inheritance of the Belgian culture and by French-speaking extension to only financial ends.

Cartoons feature-length film

Films live

Series

  • Lucky Luke produces by Hanna Barbera in 1983 (26 26 minutes episodes)
  • Lucky Luke produces by I.D.D.H. in 1991 (26 26 minutes episodes)
  • Lucky Luke (live series) produced by Paloma Film in 1991 (8 52 minutes episodes)
  • the New Adventures of Lucky Luke produces by Xilam Productions in 2001 (52 26 minutes episodes).

Works and derivative products

Cartoons

Magazine

  • Lucky Luke (March 1974 at February 1975): monthly magazine Lucky Luke in which its adventures appeared.

Song

The song Dalton sung by Joe Dassin seems well to refer to those of Morris more than in Dalton “histories”.

Spectacle

Lucky Luke Spectacle of figure skating of Philippe Candeloro.

Board games

  • Lucky Luke Wanted (2002): published by MB for 2 to 6 players for one intermediate duration of 1 a.m. Each player incarnates a Shérif and must capture more gangsters than the others to gain.

Video games

detailed Article Video games of Lucky Luke

Other appearances

A character carrying of clothing resembling his (although drawn in a more realistic way) appears in the album Delta of the series Jérémiah of Hermann. At the end, another character speaks about him under the name of " Luke Veinard".

Posterity

Along the Park Queen Astrid, street Willy Ernst, the Town of Charleroi set up a statue polychrome (and equestrian) of Lucky Luke, it belongs to a series of 4 statues of hero of cartoons of the Dupuis editions.

Internal bonds

  • Lucky Luke, cartoon.
  • Lucky Luke, film (1991)
  • See the articles of Wikipedia on the characters of '' Lucky Luke ''

External bonds

  • the official site of Lucky Luke
  • Lucky Luke on the official site of Rene Goscinny
  • Liste of the albums with chronicles detailed on CoinBD.com
  • lucky-luke.pagina.nl
  • the site of Lucky Luke
  • has Brussels, a wall data base is dedicated to Lucky Luke.

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