Oumpah-pah
Oumpah Pah le Peau-Rouge (“Umpah-pah the Redskin”). Illustrated series of comic books created in 1958 by Albert Uderzo (illustrations) and René Goscinny (script), first appearing in the weekly Journal de Tintin. The albums were published by Dargaud starting from 1961 before control was reassumed in 1995 by Albert-René.
The series features the adventures of Umpah-pah, a Native American of the Shavashavas, and his bewigged friend, the French officer Hubert de la Pâte Feuilletée, whom Umpah-pah calls Double-scalp (“Double Scalp”). The series are set in the eighteenth century, during the age of French colonization in America. Umpah-pah is as fast as an arrow and is enamored of pemmican. He is honest and trustworthy whose simple heroism is comparable to that of the more famous Asterix, whom Uderzo and Goscinny also created. Hubert de la Pâte Feuilletée, whom the Shavashavas initially hold as a prisoner, subsequently serves as a mediator between the Europeans and the Indians, and also serves as an ally against the tribe known as the Pieds-Plats, the sworn enemies of the Shavashavas. The expression “oumpah-pah” refers to a waltz. In the US versions of the series, translations were by Harvey Kurtzman.
Editions - Tome 1 : Oumpah-Pah le peau rouge
- Tome 2 : Oumpah-Pah sur le sentier de la guerre
- Tome 3 : Oumpah-Pah et les pirates
- Tome 4 : Oumpah-Pah mission secrète
- Tome 5 : Oumpah-Pah contre Foie-Malade
External Sources
Umpah-Pah (in German)
|
|
