Blueberry

Lieutenant Mike Blueberry is a Union Army cavalry officer stationed in the American Southwest during the post-Civil War era, navigating conflicts between settlers, soldiers, and Native American tribes on the rugged frontier. Created by writer Jean-Michel Charlier and artist Jean Giraud (Moebius), the character debuted in the French western comic series.

Few Western comics characters can claim the kind of sustained, decades-long vitality that Blueberry has earned since Jean-Michel Charlier and the legendary Jean Giraud — the artist the world would come to know as Moebius — launched the series in Pilote back in 1965. Born at the height of the Silver Age, this Dargaud hero has ridden through an extraordinary sixty-year publishing life, appearing across Blueberry, Pilote, and Super Pocket Pilote in the company of some of Franco-Belgian comics' most beloved figures, from Astérix to Achille Talon. Giraud's breathtaking draftsmanship alone makes this a landmark series — a gritty, cinematic vision of the American frontier rendered by one of the medium's true masters. If you have any love for the Western genre or the golden tradition of European bande dessinée, Blueberry is essential reading.