The Bluecoats - Volume 2 - The Navy Blues

Author: Raoul Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849189587
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
This humorous series on the American Civil War centres around two cavalrymen in the Unionist Army: Cornelius Chesterfield, a zealous and devoted sergeant and Corporal Blutch, a reluctant soldier, highly critical of authority and who always tries to eschew yet another senseless battle. This highly comical duo does what it can to escape the often obtuse military mindset, absurd orders and the madness of war. In this volume, the Sergeant obeys the Captain for the first time and ends up in the Marines...

The Bluecoats - Volume 7 - The Blues in the Mud

Author: Raoul Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849187797
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
While out on patrol, Blutch and Chesterfield encounter an unusual soldier: a woman wearing a Union uniform, who has come to join the army to look for her brother and uphold the family’s honour. Blutch is unconvinced, but the sergeant, won over by the combination of bravery and a pretty face, agrees to help her. That, however, means taking her along for Captain Stark’s demented charges – a prospect that could drive anyone to shirk their duty or desert...

The Bluecoats - Volume 8 - Auld Lang Blue

Author: Raoul Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849188505
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 49

Book Description
Two companies are competing to build the intercontinental railway. When one sends saboteurs to intercept the powder needed to pierce tunnels through the mountains, the other calls upon Lucky Luke to protect a last chance convoy. The problem is, it’s not powder that gets loaded onto the train this time – it’s nitroglycerin! And as if that wasn’t enough, the saboteurs are still around ... and the Daltons are convinced the train is full of gold!

The Bluecoats - Volume 13 - Something borrowed, something blue

Author: Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849186073
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
War rages on, and the wounded pile up – including Blutch, courtesy of Confederate artillery. The Union Army doctors are swamped. In order to address his shortage of healers, General Alexander brings in a quartet of female nurses. But while he did also recruit a foul- tempered ‘matron’ of sorts to discourage anyone more interested in flirting than doing their duty, he may not have planned for the possibility of one of the nurses falling for a certain small, unruly, bald corporal ...

The Bluecoats - Volume 12 - The David

Author: Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849187665
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Even as the sea blockade by the Union Navy slowly strangles the South, the picket ships begin to mysteriously blow up one after another. Lincoln, worried that the war could stretch on too long if the Rebels are resupplied, orders that the Confederates’ secret weapon be identified. That means sending spies to Charleston, though, in the heart of the enemy’s territory. And who will be the two unlucky fools the brass entrusts with such a dangerous mission ... ?

The Bluecoats - Volume 15 - Bull Run

Author: Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1800449186
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
A new recruit makes the mistake of asking Blutch to tell him about the infamous battle of Bull Run ... in public! The hostility of the other Union soldiers is immediate, yet Blutch eventually explains the reason for it. That battle, the first major one of the war, which had seemed to the North like such an inevitable victory that masses of civilians had gone to watch it as spectators, ended in a complete rout. And Blutch and Chesterfield were there ...

The Bluecoats - Volume 14 - The Dirty Five

Author: Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1800449704
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
After a series of bloody battles, the 22nd Cavalry is once again depleted. Sent on a recruiting drive, Chesterfield meets only failure – between the reputation of their unit and Blutch’s constant sabotage efforts, finding volunteers is almost impossible. Until fate brings them to a penitentiary where some very unsavoury characters are about to hang. Offered a choice, the criminals will pick the uniform over the noose, but can they be controlled?

The Bluecoats - Volume 4 - The Greenhorn

Author: Raoul Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849189935
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Blutch and Chesterfield get away from the 22nd Cavalry and go spend some R&R at... Fort Bow, their old posting on the frontier. That’s where Chesterfield’s flame Amelia lives—the daughter of Colonel Appleton. But when the cavalrymen arrive, they find the young lady dancing with a dashing young lieutenant. When a young Native American boy gets mixed up in it by mistake, it doesn’t take long for the situation to spiral out of control. “The American Civil War has never been so amusing. Raoul Cauvin and Willy Lambil have a knack for turning the miseries of war into a slapstick routine.” Penny Kenny (Comicsbulletin.com)

The Bluecoats - Sallie - Volume 16

Author: Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1800448333
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
A quiet day in the Union Army ... Soldiers are resting, Blutch and Chesterfield are arguing, and the generals are plotting strategy. Things change suddenly with the arrival of a new regiment, sent as reinforcements to counter the imminent arrival of the Confederates. With them is a young dog, Sallie, who’s been on every battlefield with her uniformed masters, and who takes an immediate liking to Chesterfield, to the point that she accompanies him on a dangerous scouting mission ...

The Bluecoats - Volume 9 - El Padre

Author: Raoul Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849187215
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 49

Book Description
Sent to scout the enemy, Blutch and Chesterfield are chased by a Confederate patrol and forced to cross the Rio Grande to safety. But that safety is relative: stuck between Apache bandits and Mexican outlaws, our two Bluecoats have no choice but to disguise themselves as civilians – Blutch as a peasant, Chesterfield as a monk. But the nearby village is eagerly awaiting its new ‘padre’, and the villagers aren’t fooled by the deception...