Durango (comic)

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Durango is a Franco-Belgian western comic series that has been released since 1981 . The series is written by Yves Swolfs ; the artists are Swolfs and (since 2006) Thierry Giroud, (since 2016) IKO. Translations have appeared in Germany, Italy, Holland and Poland.

Plot and characters

Durango Lang , the protagonist of the series, is an antihero in the style of the Spaghetti Western . The plot of the first story, set in 1896 ( Dogs Howl in Winter , 1981) - a rancher bullies the settlers in the remote White Valley - is based on motifs from Sergio Corbucci's film Corpses pave his way . Later stories, which take place in Wyoming, Texas and Mexico, for example, fall back on other typical motifs of the Western genre, such as a bank robbery ( violence, anger and death , 1982), fights by gangs and guerrillas (including Wilde Sierra , 1985) or the hunt for a pot of gold ( Duncan's Gold , 1990). Supporting characters in the series who appear in multiple stories include: B. the Mexican guerrilla Amos Rodriguez and the bounty hunter Logan .

Publications

In France, 17 albums and 5 scrapbooks with Durango stories have been released since 1981. The publications were made by Edition des Archers (albums 1-7), Dargaud (album 8), Alpen Publishers (albums 9-13), Soleil (albums 14-17, 3 scrapbooks) and Panini (1 scrapbook).

German translations have been published by Editions des Archers (albums 1–4), Norbert Hethke Verlag (albums 5–8), Ehapa under the label Feest Comics (albums 9–12) and Splitter Verlag (album 13) since 1984 . Since 2008 a new edition has been published by Kult Editions (albums 1–9 and 14-16). After the insolvency of Kult Verlag, the rights were again transferred to Splitter Verlag in 2016 (album 17). In 2016 Splitter started the complete edition with 3 completed stories each. Five volumes have been published so far (as of February 2020).

Further translations have appeared in Holland, Italy and Poland.

reception

Reviews stressed the strong influence of spaghetti westerns on the Durango comics. In terms of drawing style, Lieutenant Blueberry creator Jean Giraud is one of Yves Swolfs' role models.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of the plot and characters of the series on the French website bdcouvertes.com - Yves Swolfs and on the Dutch website Strips uit heden en verleden - Durango
  2. ↑ See the French Durango bibliography on the website bedetheque.com
  3. ^ See the German Durango bibliography on the comicguide.de website
  4. ↑ See the Dutch website Strips uit heden en verleden - Durango
  5. ↑ See the Italian website Thrillermagazine - Durango
  6. ↑ See the Polish website Magazin Kultury Popularnej Esensja - Durango ( memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / esensja.stopklatka.pl
  7. ↑ Cf. Härtlein: Review: Durango - Violence, Zorn und Tod by Yves Swolfs , magazine Pictures and Words, July 10, 2013 ; Hüster: Review Durango 1: Dogs howl in winter. Comeback of a gripping spaghetti western , Comic Radio Show, 23 August 2008 .