Dick Digger's Gold Mine (Volume 48) (Lucky Luke, 48)

drawings are exciting and the author has good imagination.I enjoyed reading it more than any other book.I encourage you to buy it

the drawing must be the original drawing from early or beginning series. story is ok

Although it doesn't say so anywhere on the book, this is the very first Lucky Luke title (in the original French series), first published in 1949. (Though it's a bit complicated: the first story collected in this volume actually dates from 1947, and you can find the very first appearance of Lucky Luke, from 1945, in the recently translated 'Arizona' volume.) This makes it rather more interesting than some of the other very early Lucky Luke volumes that have been translated into English by this publisher in recent years. In fact, like many of these early titles it's composed of two unconnected stories of about 25 pages each. The first, concerning Dick Digger's Gold Mine (a location which doesn't even make an appearance in the narrative, incidentally), is drawn in a unique style that doesn't really have any equivalent later in the series -- here Morris's characters are roly-poly, big-eyed and elastically dynamic, evidently inspired by animated cartoons of the time (Max Fleischer or early Disney, maybe). The influence of animated films is everywhere here. But while Morris's mastery of caricatured posture, gesture and expression are brilliantly in evidence throughout, many action scenes have an oddly static look (with few 'action lines'), as if they are 'key' poses waiting to be brought to life by animation. The second tale is interesting too, done in a rather different style, though plot-wise neither story is really up to much. But it's surprising to see how accomplished -- and different -- Morris's art is here, right at the beginning ...

WELL I don't know how 2 express my feelings to u beloved people, but the pics in the book don't look the same as the other lucky lukes. But times have moved on since the last issue and the drawer must have had a change in taste poor guy.