Editing Lucky Luke (section)

==Publication history==
[[File:Morris-Luckyluke1.jpg|left|thumb|First appearance of Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper in ''Arizona 1880'' (1946)]]

Simultaneously a tribute to the mythic Old West and an affectionate [[parody]], the comics were created by Belgian artist Morris, who drew ''Lucky Luke'' from 1946 until his death in 2001. The first ''Lucky Luke'' adventure, ''Arizona 1880'', appeared in the French version of the [[Franco-Belgian comics]] magazine ''[[Spirou (magazine)|Spirou]]'' in October 1946.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Betrand |first1=Christelle et |title=Lucky Luke nouvelle intégrale 1 |date=18 November 2016 |publisher=Dupuis |isbn=978-2-8001-6740-4}}</ref> It later appeared in the ''Almanach'' issue of ''Spirou'' on 7 December 1946.<ref name="BDO-s46">{{cite web|last =BDoubliées | title =Spirou année 1946| url = http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/annees/1946.htm| language=fr }}</ref>

After several years of writing the strip himself, Morris began a collaboration with [[René Goscinny]]. He was the series writer during what is considered its golden age, starting with the story {{lang|fr|italic=no|"[[Des rails sur la Prairie]]"}}, published on 25 August 1955 in ''Spirou'', until his death in 1977 (with the exception of {{lang|fr|italic=no|"[[Alerte aux Pieds Bleus]]"}}).<ref>{{cite book |title=Lucky Luke les albums |url=http://www.lucky-luke.com/fr/albums.html |publisher=Lucky Comics |access-date=11 February 2021 |language=fr}}</ref> Ending a long run of serial publications in ''Spirou'', the series was shifted to Goscinny's ''[[Pilote]]'' magazine in 1967 with the story {{lang|fr|italic=no|"[[La Diligence (comics)|La Diligence]]"}}. Later it was taken to [[Dargaud]] publisher.

After the death of Goscinny in 1977, several writers succeeded him: including Raymond "Vicq" Antoine, [[Bob de Groot]], Jean Léturgie and [[Lo Hartog van Banda]]. At the 1993 [[Angoulême International Comics Festival]], ''Lucky Luke'' was given an honorary exhibition.<ref name="lambiekM">{{cite web|last=Lambiek Comiclopedia|title=Morris|url=http://lambiek.net/artists/m/morris.htm}}</ref>
 
After Morris' death in 2001, French artist [[Achdé]] continued drawing new ''Lucky Luke'' stories in collaboration with writers Laurent Gerra, Daniel Pennac and Tonino Benacquista. Since 2016, new albums are scripted by writer Jul.

Lucky Luke comics have been translated into: [[Afrikaans]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Catalan language|Catalan]], [[Croatian language|Croatian]], [[Czech language|Czech]], [[Danish language|Danish]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[English language|English]], [[Estonian language|Estonian]], [[Finnish language|Finnish]], [[German language|German]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]], [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Serbian language|Serbian]], [[Slovene language|Slovene]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Swedish language|Swedish]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]], [[Welsh language|Welsh]] and [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]].