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A humorous cult series about the misadventures of Sergeant Cornelius M. Chesterfield and Corporal Blutch of the Union Army's 22nd Cavalry. Set during the Civil War, the two heroes are captured by the confederates and taken to Robertsonville prison camp, from which they try to escape five times. The camp commandant despairs, but Chesterfield and Blutch are determined to make one final attempt...
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In 1969, Cauvin and Salve created ''The Bluecoats,'' Cauvin's first successful series. He excelled in humorous adventures for all ages and with all kinds of visual gags. He exercised his gift by writing around 15 albums a year for parallel series with guaranteed success. In 1972, following the premature death of Salve, Cauvin asked Lambil, illustrator of Spirou magazine, to continue the series. From then on, Lambil dedicated himself to these heroes and drew 47 albums over 35 years.
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Two French cartoonists' take on our civil war
10 May 2009
Format:Paperback
This is the translation of a French-language comic about two soldiers in the Civil War Union cavalry, Sgt. Cornelius Chesterfield and his reluctant-soldier sidekick, Cpl. Blutch. These comics run to many volumes in the original, but this is only the second translation into English of one of them.
On the whole, I liked it a lot---I'd have given it five full stars, but for one particularly egregrious error, unusual in this generally well-researched series. Barbed wire was invented several decades after the US Civil War, and here, it's used to fence in prisoners of war. Robertsonville was ostensibly based on the real Andersonville, but is much less horrific than Andersonville---the emphasis here is on comedy, and there was nothing at all funny about Andersonville.
On the whole, I liked it a lot---I'd have given it five full stars, but for one particularly egregrious error, unusual in this generally well-researched series. Barbed wire was invented several decades after the US Civil War, and here, it's used to fence in prisoners of war. Robertsonville was ostensibly based on the real Andersonville, but is much less horrific than Andersonville---the emphasis here is on comedy, and there was nothing at all funny about Andersonville.
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