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.
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while the scenarios Harle, who dye of fantastic from La Rivière wind, bring the Franco-Belgian Western in the still unpublished direction "Gothic Western ( ...)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.
