Lucky Luke has made animal protection his new workhorse. Editions Dargaud has presented this Friday the new album of the adventures of the famous cowboy, Rantanplan Arc.
After the Jewish community in America and racial segregation in Louisiana, Jul in the script and Achdé in the pencil imagine a Lucky Luke on scale with vegans in this 82nd album.
“Imagine Sandrine Rousseau ruling the Wild West. So, obviously, the cowboys, the bearded patriarchal thugs don’t like it”, summarizes Jul, writer of Lucky Luke at the microphone of BFMTV.
Focus on animal welfare
Inspired by the history of the creation of the SPA in the United States, this new album recounts the arrival of the man who shoots faster than his shadow to the small town of Cattle Gulch where the ideals of a defender of the animal cause, Ovide Byrde, will be seen. . resort to tyranny.
Here now, “cowboys no longer eat meat, Indians no longer hunt bison, and hunters make wicker baskets,” Dargaud’s edits specify on Twitter.
“We can see how these issues of religion, community, racial issues are extremely difficult to address today. If we make a reading of childhood, humor, action like comics, it works perfectly, “says Jul.
This 82nd album also marks the return to the front line of the dumbest dog in the West, Rantanplan, imagined by Morris and Goscinny in 1962. “When you look at all the work, this character has significance on all ten albums. He is very complicated to handle. a stupid dog,” says designer Achdé.
With Rantanplan ArcJul and Achdé breathe a new breath of modernity into the adventures of the man nicknamed “Lonesome Cowboy” and highlight the animals in the series that also make Lucky Luke so successful.
Source: BFM TV
