"Texas Kid, My Bro" by Igor Kordej

Another gift from my friend Igor Kordej.

A few days ago, Igor gifted me this beautifully drawn and intense comic Texas Kid, My Bro, published by the Croatian publisher Fibra.

Igor is one of my longest-known friends. We've known each other since 1972 and have shared many personal and work-related adventures.

 

 

Not all comics in my collection are acquisitions. Some are gifts from my friends, like this recent present from Igor Kordey. 

This beautifully drawn page is from the soon-to-be-published second volume of the comic Marshall Bass. The comic, drawn by Igor Kordey and written by Darko Macan, is based on the life of Bass Reeves.

Bass was a runaway slave, gunfighter, farmer, scout, tracker, railroad agent, and deputy U.S. Marshal. He spoke the languages of several Native American tribes including Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole and Creek. He was one of the first African-American Deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River, mostly working in the deadly Indian Territory. The region was saturated with horse thieves, cattle rustlers, gunslingers, bandits, bootleggers, swindlers, and murderers. Reeves made up to 4,000 arrests in his lifetime, killing twenty men in the line of duty.