Cotton Kid

Cotton Kid is a series of comic strip created by Jean Léturgie and Pearce to the drawing. In a context of Western parody near Lucky Luke, she recounts surveys Trevor Beauregard, a pretentious incompetent detective happily unwittingly assisted by his brother Kid, malignant and resourceful kid. Cotton Kid lives on a cotton plantation in the southern US. His role model is his older brother Trevor, who works at the prestigious Pinkerton Agency and told him about his exciting adventures. Thrilled Kid goes after him. The reality is a bit different than portrayed by his brother. With the help of imaginative and cunning Kid Trevor can bring more cases to a successful conclusion. Cotton Kid is a published between 1999 and 2003 French-Belgian comic series.

Although it puts on stage a little boy, the series is aimed primarily at an older readership that his hero, if not adults. The choice of a little boy like heroes introduced a pure look, idealistic and refreshing that accentuates the distancing with cowardice and corruption of adults. Because the devastating humor that inhabits each page is mainly expressed in the second degree and is happy rabble. Unlike those ofLucky Luke, the characters in Cotton Kid are parodies rather than caricatures. They show everyday racism, cowardice small, complex, perversions and vile instincts. "Good" as well as "bad", women as well as men. So there is a very satirical dimension in Cotton Kid, where Lucky Luke plays more in the register of the stuffing.

Rantanplan

Rantanplan (alternately spelled Ran-Tan-Plan and Ran Tan Plan) [ʁɑ̃tɑ̃ˈplɑ̃] is a fictional hound dog created by Belgian comics artist Morris and French writer René Goscinny. Originally a supporting character in the Lucky Luke series, Rantanplan later starred in aneponymous series. Rantanplan is a spoof of Rin Tin Tin, as idiotic as Rin Tin Tin is clever. Ironically, in the Turkish translations of the series, he is indeed named Rin Tin Tin. English versions of the books have renamed him "Rin Tin Can" and "Bushwack" in the 1983 Hanna-Barbera Animated Lucky Luke television series.

Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke is a Belgian comics series created by Belgian cartoonist Maurice De Bevere, better known as Morris, and for one period written by René Goscinny. Set in the American Old West, it stars the titular character, Lucky Luke, the cowboy known to "shoot faster than his shadow".

Along with The Adventures of Tintin, Johan and Peewit, The Smurfs and Asterix, Lucky Luke is one of the most popular and best-selling comic-book series in continental Europe. About half of the series' adventures have been translated into English. Lucky Luke comics have been translated into 23 languages, including many European languages, some African and Asian languages.

Jonathan Cartland

Jonathan Cartland is the eponymous hero of a series of comic western designed by Michel Blanc-Dumont and written by Laurence Harle. Appeared in 1974 as Lucky Luke, it was published in ten volumes until 1995. It is one of "the most important contemporary westerns".
Jonathan Cartland is set during the conquest of the American West and describes the adventures of a trapper reflects humanism and close to the Indian population. It's a western close to nature and at times tinged fantasy describing life in the xix th century in the wild west.

In the first volume, the authors are struggling to differentiate themselves from their influences: history is only "a meager substitute Jeremiah Johnson" while Blanc-Dumont still very inspired by the work of Jean Giraud on Blueberry . However, the designer eventually finds his personality by refining his line while the scenarios Harle, who dye of fantastic from La Rivière wind, bring the Franco-Belgian Western in the still unpublished direction "Gothic Western ( ...) with its processions spells, traps, anxieties".Jonathan Cartland first appeared in 1974 in the monthly Lucky Luke, where westerns group Dargaud were published first. In 1975, the short stories are the subject of a book, plus unreleased. On the death of the magazine, the series is transferred to Driver, who pre-published tomes 4-9 until 1989. The last album is the only one left without pre-publication.