Tag Archives: western

Third Gotham Calling Manifesto

Posted on September 19, 2024 by I.M. Baytor

Detective Comics #483 I started this blog a decade ago in the spirit of entertainment – for others as much as for myself. I spent much of my life reading and thinking about Batman comics, so I wanted to share … Continue reading →

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Spotlight on Lucky Luke, 1958-1967 – part 2

Posted on May 9, 2024 by I.M. Baytor

As mentioned last week, I’ve been rereading the first decade of René Goscinny’s run on the Belgian series Lucky Luke, illustrated by Morris, and trying to figure out what made those comics work (and why they resonated so much with … Continue reading →

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Spotlight on Lucky Luke, 1958-1967 – part 1

Posted on May 2, 2024 by I.M. Baytor

Once again, it’s that time of year when I revisit Eurocomics that marked my childhood, now read through older eyes, and write about some of the dimensions I missed as a kid. Today, I’ll focus on the first decade of … Continue reading →

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (4 December 2023)

Posted on December 4, 2023 by I.M. Baytor

A Lucky Luke reminder that comics can be awesome: Lucky Luke’s Double

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Spotlight on Lucky Luke, 1949-1958 – part 2

Posted on February 23, 2023 by I.M. Baytor

Last week, I mentioned that humor played a key role in Lucky Luke from the very beginning. Today, I want to take a closer look at the types of humor developed in the series’ earliest years… The Bluefeet are Coming! … Continue reading →

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Spotlight on Lucky Luke, 1949-1958 – part 1

Posted on February 16, 2023 by I.M. Baytor

Last year, when I did a couple of posts about The Adventures of Tintin, I naively mentioned I wanted to write more, throughout 2022, about the Belgian bandes dessinées I read growing up. My work schedule didn’t allow me to … Continue reading →

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Catching up with crime comics – Texas edition

Posted on November 3, 2022 by I.M. Baytor

As I’ve been catching up with crime comics from the past year or so, one thing that struck me is the fact that Texas is currently one of the main recurring settings in the genre.         This may be … Continue reading →

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Gotham Calling’s top 50 westerns

Posted on December 16, 2021 by I.M. Baytor

This is Gotham Calling’s 500th post! I like to mark these round numbers with humorous tours of Batman’s quirkiest villains but, since I’ve already done one of those earlier this year, this time around I’ll go for something more original … Continue reading →

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2020’s books of the year: honorable mentions – part 1

Posted on March 4, 2021 by I.M. Baytor

Doing a list often involves leaving out a lot of good stuff and this was certainly the case with Gotham Calling’s 2020 books of the year… Some great comics didn’t make it to the list because they didn’t fulfil the … Continue reading →

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2020’s books of the year – part 4

Posted on January 28, 2021 by I.M. Baytor

If you read last weeks’ posts, you know what’s going on. Here are four 2020 books that reminded me of why I love comics:   8. PULP The creative duo of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (known among some fans … Continue reading →

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