Live Poll: Happy 75th Birthday, Lucky Luke!

Along with Tintin and Asterix, Lucky Luke certainly stands on the podium of the most iconic ambassadors of the Belgian-French school of comic-books.

Along with Tintin the reporter and Asterix the little Gaul, Lucky Luke, the "poor, lonesome, cowboy" certainly stands on the podium of the most popular, iconic and defining characters of the Franco-Belgian Comic-book school.

He was created in 1946 by Maurice de Bevere aka Morris, a Belgian drawer who, like many other people of his generation, was impregnated by all the Hollywood Golden Age classics, and its domineering genre: Western.

Morris, and this applies to writer Goscinny (who wrote Asterix' adventures) spent some time of his life in New York and had the chance to be plunged in the very culture that entertained his youth and childhood, and that inspired the iconic cowboy who draws his gun faster than his shadow (a catchphrase that became synonym of 'quickness' in French language).

Therefore, all the adventures of Lucky Luke constitute one of the greatest tributes to whatever defines the Old West myth, each one focusing in a particular episode of the Conquest of the West, gold and oil rushes, the telegraph, the railroad adventure.

As for Goscinny's humor, it was not political, not thought-provoking, but always with this mix of wit, inventiveness and sophistication that would appeal to both kids and adults. His greatest creation would be the Daltons brothers: Joe, William, Jack and the tallest and most stupid one, Averell who embodies one of Goscinny's greatest talent: creating stupid characters with a level of brilliance that makes them particularly endearing, Rin-Tin-Can, the dog, is one of them.

So celebrating the 75th anniversary of the iconic cowboy, which screen adaptation of his adventures is your personal favorite?

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