Part of Series
Le Pied-Tendre est la quarante-huitième histoire de la série Lucky Luke par Morris (dessin) et René Goscinny (scénario). Elle est publiée pour la première fois du no 1537 au no 1556 du journal Spirou. Puis est publiée en album en 1968 aux éditions Dargaud. Le jeune Anglais, Badmington, accompagné de son maître d'hôtel, vient prendre possession d'un ranch que lui a légué son oncle. Lucky Luke est chargé de le protéger car Jack Rabbit, homme sans scrupules, convoite lui aussi la propriété. Mais l'héritier pied-tendre s'avère plus coriace que prévu et force reste à la loi.
Authors
The Belgian author Morris (full name Maurice de Bevere) is best known for his humorous cowboy character, Lucky Luke. Morris started his career in 1945 in Le Moustique, creating various covers and illustrations. By the end of the 1940s, Morris met his colleagues Jijé, Franquin and Will. These four artists would be called "The Gang of 4", because they all worked in Jijé's studio at that time. The first episode of Lucky Luke, 'Arizona 1880', was published in L'Almanach Spirou 1947, and was later continued in Spirou. In his early 'Lucky Luke' comics, Morris was greatly inspired by animated cartoons à la Disney. In 1949, Jijé took Morris and Franquin to the US, where Morris met Jack Davis and Harvey Kurtzman, whom he helped with their plans for Mad Magazine. He also met René Goscinny in the US. In 1955, Morris returned to Europe and collaborated with René Goscinny on 'Lucky Luke'. Goscinny wrote the scenarios of over 35 stories, which led to the great success of the series. 'Lucky Luke' is one of the best-sellers i
René Goscinny (1926 - 1977) was a French author, editor and humorist, who is best known for the comic book Asterix , which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris (considered the series' golden age).
