Why it never caught in america?
greatest comic ever
Why it never caught in america?
Michael Flores
Noah Wright
Because it wasnt distributed and advertised when cowboys were trending.
And after that cowboys never got mainstream again.
Nathaniel Walker
In the same vein, do people outside of Europe (or even France ?) know about Les Tuniques Bleues? I don't remember seeing it discussed here
Daniel Thompson
There are actual official albums released, so somewhat(like 12 albums of Bluecoats).
Though I first became aware of the series by playing North and South in the Amiga
Grayson Ortiz
Cowboys were huge in the 40s and 50s when it was first being published, I think it had more to do with America being completely saturated with its own cowboy media at the time.
Aiden Gray
They were quite popular here in Scandinavia.
Owen Kelly
After Blazing Saddles the US experienced a "cowboy fatigue". There were more than 50 western shows in the spawn of a decade and half. We didn't have that kind of exausting push in Europe so cowboys remained a popular but not dominating genre, and there's an exotic element to it for us. If an american ever wonders what it's like to be exotified, they should look into european western media, both comics and spaghetti movies.
Lucky Luke is freaking great, btw. It gets very creative with stories despite having a perfect protagonist, and he's very likeable. Do you like the Xilam show, OP?
Owen Jenkins
This, back then there was a ton of over saturation on cowboys those days. In Europe this comic strip was popular because the concept was foreign to them.
Easton Morris
Or this shit, a super fucking popular Norwegian western novel series
en.wikipedia.org
Those 41 books that got translated into English isn't even half the series. The guy is crazy popular and just as much a household name here as Spider-man.
Austin Cook
the new adventures of lucky luke yes
i would like to mention asterix and obelix too