Cowboy comics covers etc Westerns & BD

 Salvete Omnes,

by Jack Kirby 

Some pop-art and pop-culture for this fine Sunday, 

The American, French, Italian, Spanish etc comics often have featured the Wild West cowboy stories and characters - like Cisco Kid, Buffalo Bill, Zorro, Broncho Bill, Lone Rider, Gene Autry, Tex Willer, Blueberry, Lucky Luke, Bino Bill (Poland), Buddy Longway and others.

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by Frank Frazetta 

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Italian hero Tex Willer

Blueberry - mostly drawn by the immortal Moebius aka Jean Giraud 

and finally the grand Lucky Luke 

and some sad news - Hermann Hoppen known as Hermann, Belgian master of Franco-Belgian comics, passed away on March 22, 2026. Author of numerous books - series like Comanche, Tours de Bois-Maury, and Jeremiah etc
 

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Johann M. Rugendas & Jean-Baptiste Debret - Indian horses and riders from South America

 Salvete Omnes,

a very short entry on this last day of April- more of the fantastic works of Johann Mortiz Rugendas of Bavarian Kingdom and some of the works of  Jean-Baptiste Debret of France .

The Charrua people of Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil. 

. Guarani

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Las Pampas - Tehuelches & Araucani (Mapuche) and el Malon 

enjoy 

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Johann Moritz Rugendas in South America

 Salvete Omnes,

April is coming to its natural end in two days. The war in the Western Asia has not been concluded, more war in Africa ( Mali, Somalia), and the usual Ukraine invasion in Europe. 

ad rem, 

Johann Mortiz Rugendas, a Bavarian painter, came from the family of artists (painters  eg his great grandfather of famous Georg Philip Rugendas) from Augsburg (Kingdom of Bavaria). He studied with Albrecht Adam and Lorenzo Quaglio II.
He made several long trips to the Americas, departing for Europe in 1846 after more that a decade in the Americas. 

Native horsemen of the pampas,  their enemies the  gauchos, huasos, tropeiros, criollo horses, Mexican caballeros and many other equestrian subjects in Latin America. 

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enjoy

Valete