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Lucky Luke #49

De Ballade van de Daltons en andere verhalen

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"I'm a poor lonesome cow-boy and a long way from home..." Traduit en français, cela donnerait à peu près ça : "Je suis un pauvre cow-boy solitaire, loin de son foyer..." C'est la complainte que chante Lucky Luke, "l'homme qui tire plus vite que son ombre", chaque fois que s'achève un album de ses aventures. Et comme il bourlingue dans l'Ouest américain depuis quelques dizaines d'années, il a eu tout le temps de s'éclaircir la voix... Lucky Luke apparaît en effet pour la première fois dans l'Almanach de Spirou daté de 1947 et publié fin 1946. Son créateur est un certain Morris - Maurice de Bévère pour l'état civil. Un passionné de westerns et d'Amérique, qui séjourna d'ailleurs aux États-Unis au début des années cinquante. Il rencontra notamment l'équipe du délirant magazine Mad, qui lui donna l'envie de faire de son personnage une pure parodie. Il croisa aussi la route de René Goscinny, futur père d'Astérix, qui deviendra le scénariste de Lucky Luke en 1955 et le restera jusqu'à sa disparition en 1977. Les albums de Lucky Luke revisitent l'histoire du western et mettent en scène avec humour et distance les grandes figures de l'Ouest, comme le juge Roy Bean ou Calamity Jane. Et, bien sûr, les fameux frères Dalton, transformés ici en un quatuor pitoyable et drolatique, passant son temps à s'évader de prison avant d'y être reconduit par le héros... Et puis, il y a Rantanplan. Celui qui a dit un jour que le chien était le meilleur ami de l'homme ne devait pas connaître Rantanplan, le chien le plus stupide à l'ouest du Pecos - et sans doute partout ailleurs. Heureusement que Jolly Jumper, cheval du héros et, à l'occasion, son partenaire au jeu d'échecs, est là pour rétablir l'équilibre... Aujourd'hui, Lucky Luke a un petit peu changé. Par exemple, il ne fume plus. Il a remplacé la cigarette par une brindille d'herbe. Il boit plus volontiers du coca que du whisky. Mais avec sa chemise jaune, son jean à revers blancs, son gilet noir et son foulard rouge, il reste sans nul doute le cow-boy le plus célèbre de toute la bande dessinée. --Gilbert Jacques

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

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Morris

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The Belgian author Morris (full name Maurice de Bevere) is best known for his humorous cowboy character, Lucky Luke. Morris started his career in 1945 in Le Moustique, creating various covers and illustrations. By the end of the 1940s, Morris met his colleagues Jijé, Franquin and Will. These four artists would be called "The Gang of 4", because they all worked in Jijé's studio at that time. The first episode of Lucky Luke, 'Arizona 1880', was published in L'Almanach Spirou 1947, and was later continued in Spirou. In his early 'Lucky Luke' comics, Morris was greatly inspired by animated cartoons à la Disney.
In 1949, Jijé took Morris and Franquin to the US, where Morris met Jack Davis and Harvey Kurtzman, whom he helped with their plans for Mad Magazine. He also met René Goscinny in the US. In 1955, Morris returned to Europe and collaborated with René Goscinny on 'Lucky Luke'. Goscinny wrote the scenarios of over 35 stories, which led to the great success of the series.
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3,420 reviews400 followers
November 30, 2017
Aku terlalu cinta sama Dalton bersaudara terutama Averel dan Joe...tiap baca soal mereka selalu bawaannya gemes pengen aku makan LOL
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172 reviews6 followers
February 27, 2024
Ah Lucky Luke. It's not quite as subtle as Asterix and it's not quite as clever as Tintin. But maaaaaaan. So, to answer your question, which I can only assume is 'why are you reading a French language version of a picture book adaptation of a 1970's animated film?' it's partly to keep my hand in my Francophone abilities, partly my penchant for obscure bande dessinée apocrypha and partly so anyone visiting my home and using the bathroom will see it and think I'm fancy. Alright, so it's mostly the latter. But either way it's a nice little tale and the quite literally the last thing Rene Goscinny worked on; he recorded the vocals for Luke's horse Jolly Jumper the day before he died. I can't give it more than three stars though, that racist Asian caricature is yikes on several bikes. Or tiens dans beacoup des velos, if you prefer.
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444 reviews34 followers
April 26, 2025
This was the first Lucky Luke book that I wholeheartedly enjoyed reading up together with my kids. The first story, the "Ballad of the Daltons" is around 30 pages, and another 3 short stories make up this edition. I loved the humour, the way he dealt with the bandits, the Indian sitter he had to save amongst many, all-in-all a well-rounded story with lots of fun and laughing. The other 3 shorter ones are also ok, this was really good fun that I enjoyed!
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487 reviews9 followers
August 22, 2020
Η ομώνυμη μεγάλη ιστορία είναι πολύ δυνατή και φαίνεται να ήταν σε κείμενα Goscinny. Οι υπόλοιπες δε λένε και πολλά.
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792 reviews3 followers
January 5, 2026
this was soo fun. the horse getting a crush and the daltons acc working together w tom was a recipe for amusement.
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Author 16 books74 followers
February 4, 2017
Read for the December episode of our Euro Comics series for The Comics Alternative.
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July 8, 2019
Ce n'est pas une BD mais une histoire. Le texte est en retard sur les images
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