Kit Carson

A frontier hero of the French Western comics tradition, this Kit Carson rides through adventures published by Semic S.A. in Rodeo and Spécial Rodéo, sharing a name with the legendary American frontiersman and embodying the classic cowboy archetype beloved in Franco-Belgian genre comics.

Riding onto the page in 1980 courtesy of creator Jean-Yves Mitton, this Kit Carson is a Bronze Age Western figure published by Semic S.A. and rooted firmly in the French comics tradition — appearing across the pages of Rodeo and Spécial Rodéo for a remarkable span of some twenty-three years. The company he keeps is colorful and eclectic, sharing adventures with the likes of Tex Willer, Phénix, and Zembla, which speaks to the wonderfully varied world of Franco-Belgian genre publishing where cowboys, heroes, and adventurers of all stripes rode side by side. A dedicated collector of French-language comics or Western genre enthusiasts will find in this character a genuine slice of how the cowboy myth was reimagined and sustained across decades of European sequential art.