Lance (comic)

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Lance is the title character of a US western comic published between 1955 and 1960. The creator of the comic, which appeared mainly as a Sunday page, was Warren Tufts .

Plot and creator

The comic, set between 1830 and 1850, is about the officer Lance St. Lorne, who, as the descendant of a French nobleman, experiences numerous adventures when meeting trappers, soldiers, Indians and Mexicans. The comics were drawn and written by Warren Tufts . He had only introduced speech bubbles in 1957 after having previously worked with text fields. Tufts used his own person as a template, since he hoped to play the title role in a possible film adaptation of the comic.

publication

The first publication of Lance took place on June 5, 1955 as a colored Sunday page in almost a hundred newspapers. The comic was distributed by Tufts and his family after he broke up in a dispute with the United Feature Syndicate, which was responsible for the distribution of Tufts' previously published western comic Casey Ruggles . In addition to the Sunday page, Lance appeared as a daily strip from January 1957 to February 1958 . The last Lance episode was published on May 29, 1960 after fewer and fewer newspapers subscribed to the Strip.

A complete edition in five large-format volumes was published in German by Bocola Verlag from June 2011 to September 2013 . The comic was translated by Jonas and Uwe Baumann. Some panels appeared in German as early as 1990 in the 1990 Comic Yearbook published by Andreas C. Knigge . Other complete editions were made in Portuguese and Spanish.

reception

In the opinion of Andreas C. Knigge, who compares Lance to Jean Giraud's Blueberry , Tufts was able to “transfer the cinema's spatial conception to its pages and conjure up the landscapes beyond the frontier in almost lyrical images and breathtaking colors”. He sees Lance as "a discovery not only from an artistic point of view, but above all as a Western". For Alex Toth , who had assisted him as a ghost draftsman at Casey Ruggles , Lance Tufts' "best work" was. Bill Blackbeard called Lance "the best of the full-page adventure trips created after the 1930s".

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alex Toth: Warren Tufts - The Forgotten Master . In Andreas C. Knigge (Hrsg.): Comic Jahrbuch 1990 . Carlsen Verlag, Reinbek, ISBN 3-551-01715-8 , p. 25.
  2. ↑ a b c Andreas C. Knigge: The late arrival . In: Comixene . No. 111, December 2011, ISSN  0174-2205 , p. 63.
  3. ↑ a b Lance on comicguide.de , accessed on February 2, 2014
  4. ^ Website of the restorer of the original newspaper strips , accessed on February 6, 2014
  5. ^ Bill Blackbeard: Lance . In: Maurice Horn (Ed.): The World Encyclopedia of Comics . Chelsea House, Philadelphia 1999, ISBN 0-7910-4856-X , pp. 467 (English, quote: "It was certainly the best of the page-high adventure strips undertaken after the 1930s, ...").