Lance (comic strip)

Lance is the eponymous hero of a Western comic books published 1955-1960. Creator of the comic, which appeared mainly as a Sunday page, Warren Tufts was.

Action and Creator

Which is part of between 1830 and 1850 is about the comic officer Lance St. Lorne, who experienced as a descendant of a French nobleman at the meeting with trappers, soldiers, Indians and Mexicans numerous adventures. Drawn and written by Warren Tufts were the comics. This was not until 1957 speech bubbles introduced after he had previously worked with text fields. As Template Tufts using his own person, as he hoped to be able to play the title role in a possible film adaptation of the comic.

Publication

The first release of Lance took place on 5 June 1955 as a color Sunday page in less than a hundred newspapers. The distribution of the comic done by Tufts and his family after he had due to conflict by the United Feature Syndicate, which was responsible for the spread of Tufts ' previously published Western comic Casey Ruggles. In addition to the Sunday page appeared Lance January 1957 to February 1958 as a daily strip. The last Lance sequence was published on 29 May 1960 after fewer and fewer newspapers subscribed to the Strip.

In German published from June 2011 to September 2013 a complete edition in five large-format volumes in Bocola publisher. The comic was translated by Jonas and Uwe Baumann. Excerpts published in German in 1990 in some panels, edited by Andreas C. Knigge Comic Yearbook 1990. More total expenditure made ​​in Portuguese and Spanish languages ​​.

Reception

Compares According to Andreas C. Knigge, the Lance with Jean Giraud's Blueberry, Tufts, the " transfer spatial conception of the cinema on its pages and to summon the landscapes beyond the frontier in almost lyrical images and stunning colors " could. He sees Lance " not only in artistic terms, but also as a Western discovery ". For Alex Toth, who had assisted him in Casey Ruggles as a ghost - artist, Lance was Tufts ' " best work ". Bill Blackbeard called Lance " the best of the full-page adventure trips, which was created in the 1930s ."