  Fair Trade Comics: Cow Boy  A comic review article by: Danny
Djeljosevic     Is it possible for an all-ages comic to have an
edge? Can you take a typically "adult" genre and craft a kid-
friendly story without sacrificing too much of what defines said
genre? Seems like Nate Cosby and Chris Eliopoulos come up with
an answer both questions through their graphic novel Cow Boy, an
all-ages western with surprisingly equal amounts of cute and
grit.  Cow Boy follows Boyd Linney, who comes from a family full
of criminals and has made it his life's mission to capture every
single one of his wrongdoing relatives and bring them to
justice. It's a powerful premise for a western, incorporating
ideas of family and carrying out a monumentally difficult goal
at the risk of everyone around you amidst lots of shooting and
rustling. But here's the big twist: Boyd is a ten-year-old boy
riding a full-grown horse, and armed with a toy hobby horse
that's actually a rifle. In other words, he is super-cute.
Gruff yet totally ador