Chick Bill is a Franco-Belgian

Franco-Belgian comics

Franco-Belgian comics are comics that are created in Belgium and France. These countries have a long tradition in comics and comic books, where they are known as BDs, an abbreviation of bande dessinée in French and stripverhalen in Dutch...

 humorous Western

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 series created by Tibet

Tibet (comics)

Tibet, the pseudonym of Gilbert Gascard , was a French comics artist and writer in the Franco-Belgian comics genre...

. It was first published in the comics magazine

Franco-Belgian comics magazines

Belgium and France have a long tradition in comics. They have a common history for comics and magazines.In the early years of its history, magazines had a large place on the comics market and were often the only place where comics were published. Most of them were kids-targeted.In the 1970s,...

s De Avonturen van Koenraad and Chez Nous Junior in 1953, and began serial publication on October 19, 1955 in Tintin

Tintin (magazine)

Le journal de Tintin or Kuifje , was a weekly Belgian comics magazine of the second half of the 20th century...

under the title Les aventures de Chick Bill le cow-boy.

Evolution

In the very first Chick Bill adventures, the characters were portrayed as animals, rendered in a manner similar to the Disney style and directed at a younger audience, before the series gradually evolved to feature human characters.

Sources

• Chick Bill publications in Belgian Tintin and French Tintin BDoubliées
• Chick Bill albums Bedetheque

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