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Born in Kortrijk , Belgium, Morris started drawing in the CBA animations studios, a small and short-lived animation studios in Belgium where he met Peyo and André Franquin . He created Lucky Luke in 1946 for '' Spirou '' magazine. Lucky Luke is a solitary cowboy who travels across the Wild West, helping those in need, and aided by his faithful horse, Jolly Jumper . Lucky Luke's first adventure, ''Arizona 1880'', was published in "L'Almanach Spirou 1947." The first 31 adventures were published by Dupuis , but in the late sixties, Morris left Dupuis and ''Spirou'' and went to Dargaud and '' Pilote ''. Morris travelled to the United States with his colleagues Jijé and André Franquin, and lived there for six years, during which he gathered material for more adventures for his hero. Here he met René Goscinny , a French writer of comics (later of '' Asterix '' fame) who wrote many of the best Lucky Luke stories until his death in 1977. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Morris never had many series he worked on, although he made lots of illustrations for stories in the forties and fifties. In the nineties, he did make '' Rantanplan '', a spin-off from Lucky Luke, starring the dumbest dog in the West. |
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