Previewing Cinebook’s July Titles – Three Debuts With Rin Tin Can, Highlands, and Redbeard – More Of The Best In Euro Comics

Another month, another trio of quality Euro comic albums to come from Cinebook, who’ve been publishing English language versions of a massive range of Franco-Belgian Ninth Art since 2005, bringing the huge range and variety of Euro comics to the West.

This month we have three new translations of Euro material, including the first adventures of Rin Tin Can (Rantanplan in the French), who had previously featured in many a Lucky Luke album, as created by René Goscinny and Morris. Rin Tin Can/Rantanplan is everything Luke’s horse, Jolly Jumper, isn’t – dumb as a brick, accident-prone, extremely slow. Add in his complete inability to do his job as a prison guard properly and it’s no wonder Jolly Jumper always has an air of contempt around him. Rin Tin Can’s usually to be found assisting/hindering Luke in the tracking down of the Daltons, often stupidly mistaking Joe Dalton for his beloved owner, not something that goes down well with Joe.

This first volume of Rin Tin Can‘s English-translated adventures begins in ‘The Mascot‘, first published in 1987 by Daraud.

Alongside that, we have Highlands Book 1, written and drawn by Philippe Aymond, a Euro historical epic, this time set in Scotland in the 1700s, and Redbeard Book 1: A Short Drop and a Sudden Stop, by Jean-Charles Kraehn and Stefano Carloni, another historical tale, again in the 1700s, but this time taking place in the Caribbean, where Redbeard, once the terror of the Seven Seas, has partially retired and serves as a privateer in the service of the King of France.

So, three to look forward to for the end of July… Now, a cover preview and a little Cinebook PR:

RIN TIN CAN 1 – THE MASCOT – by X. Fauche & J. Léturgie; illustrated by Morris
Published by Cinebook on Thursday 27 July, 2023.

In a fort on the Frontier, the 7th Cavalry keeps a vigilant watch over the Wild West. It is a time of peace with the local Natives, and all is well, thanks – at least in the colonel’s mind – to the regiment’s lucky mascot. But when that dog mysteriously vanishes and bad luck begins to plague the unit, it becomes necessary to find a replacement. The colonel picks Rin Tin Can for the job… and then the real trouble begins!

HIGHLANDS BOOK 1 – by Philippe Aymond
Published by Cinebook on Thursday 27 July, 2023.

Scotland, 1743. In Blackwater Castle, in the Highlands, the Duke of Plaxton is looking for a new portrait painter. A member of Clan Grant, supporters of the Act of Union with England, the duke has a son, William, whose heart leans towards the Jacobite cause, and a daughter, Amelia, betrothed to an English lord she has never met. It’s there, in this crucible of rebellion and ambitions, that arrives Joseph Callander, local boy back from years spent in Italy, and talented painter…

REDBEARD 1 – A SHORT DROP AND A SUDDEN STOP! – by Jean-Charles Kraehn & Stefano Carloni
Published by Cinebook on Thursday 27 July, 2023.

1738, Cap-Français, in the Caribbean. Redbeard, once the terror of the Seven Seas, has partially retired. Now a privateer in the service of the King of France, he chomps at the bit along with his companions, for France is currently at peace. So, when the town’s governor tasks him with catching a mysterious French pirate who terrorises the Carolinas, he jumps at the chance to get back into the fray. But he made many enemies during his pirate years, and danger lurks in wait…