Stan Lynde
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Stan Lynde is an American comic artist, painter, and novelist. He was born in Billings, Montana in 1931, and was raised on a ranch.
Lynde created the comic strip "Rick O'Shay" in 1958, and it was a huge critical and commercial success. Like most of his work, it was set in the west and mixed humor with strong storytelling. After a dispute with the syndicate, Lynde left the strip in 1977. The strip continued for a few years, drawn by Alfredo Alcala.
In 1979, Lynde returned with another comic strip, called Latigo, starring Cole "Latigo" Cantrell, AKA "Two Trails". His father was a mountain man and his mother a Crow Indian. After serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Latigo returned to the West and became a federal marshal. The daily strip was launched on June 25, 1979, joined by a Sunday strip, best seen in the half page format, on 1 July 1979. It was not a great commercial success however, and ended in 1983, the daily on May 7, the Sunday on 5 June.
In 1984 and 1985, Lynde produced the weekly panel "Grass Roots" which was revived in 1998.
Stan Lynde and his wife Lynda founded Cottonwood Publishing so he could publish books reprinting his comics, and new material (primarily western novels).
In the late 1980s, the Swedish financial newspaper Dagens Industri commissioned a comic strip from Lynde. It became "Chief Plenty Bucks", set in the west as always and starring a capitalistic Native American chief. Lynde made about 10 pages worth of material, but the project was shelved and never published in Dagens Industri. In 1997 however, the strip was revived for the Swedish Fantomen magazine (and its Norwegian and Finnish counterparts). The title was changed to "Chief Sly Fox" and a total of 86 pages (including the original from the 1980s) were published from 1997 to 2000. So far they have never been published in English.
In 2002, Lynde returned with another exclusive comic for Fantomen; "Bad Bob" which is about a hopeless wild west criminal. This strip is still running (as of 2005).
[edit] Novels by Stan Lynde
- The Bodacious Kid (1996)
- Careless Creek (1998)
- Vigilante Moon (2003)
- Saving Miss Julie (2004)
- Marshal of Medicine Lodge (2005)
[edit] Strip Reprints
- The daily Rick O'Shay from the beginning through 1964 was reprinted by Cottonwood Publishing in four volumes, except for one week, which was reprinted in Comics Revue magazine. Comics Revue is currently reprinting the daily Rick O'Shay beginning with the strips from 30 September 1968. A selection of Rick O'Shay dailies, with commentary by Stan Lynde, was reprinted in Rick, Hipshot, and Me from Cottonwood Publishing.
- Grass Roots panels were reprinted in two volumes from Cottonwood Publishing.
- Latigo daily strips have all appeared in three volumes from Cottonwood Publishing.
