Jim Cutlass
Jim Cutlass is a French-Belgian Western - comic series .
content
Jim Cutlass is a captain in the Northern Army. After the Civil War he wants to receive his inheritance, a cotton plantation near New Orleans . However, half of his trigger-happy cousin belongs to Carolyn. The two now try to come to terms and bring the rundown property back into shape. Cutlass succeeds in winning the former slaves back as workers, this time with payment. The whole arrangement is threatened by members of the Ku Klux Klan .
publication
The first 17 pages appeared as a short story in a Western special edition of the Pilote magazine in June 1976. The first volume, Mississippi River, was expanded to an album in 1979 by Les Humanoïdes Associés . The copywriter was Jean-Michel Charlier and the draftsman Jean Giraud .
12 years later the sequel was published by Casterman . From then on, Christian Rossi acted as draftsman . Due to Charlie's death, the album was only incomplete after 36 pages, the rest and the subsequent volumes were then written by Jean Giraud.
The first volume was published in German by Volksverlag , volumes 1 to 4 by Carlsen Verlag and volumes 5 to 7 by Kult Editions .
Albums
- 1979: Mississippi River
- 1991: The Man from New Orleans ( L'homme de la Nouvelle-Orléans )
- 1993: The white alligator ( L'alligator blanc )
- 1995: Thunder Rolls ( Tonnerre au Sud )
- 1995: up to your neck! ( Jusqu'au cou! )
- 1998: Ghosts, Zombies and Cannons ( Colts, Fantômes et Zombies )
- 1999: Black Night ( Nuit noire )
Web links
- Jim Cutlass at bedetheque.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jim Cutlass at jmcharlier.com
- ↑ Jim Cutlass at Comic Guide .com