Description

By (author) Cauvin, Raoul

Short /annotation:
Every soldier knows it: There”s nothing more dangerous than a young lieutenant fresh out of the Academy –

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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.

Review quote:
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.A” Penny Kenny (Comicsbulletin.com)

Biographical note:
The Belgian-born author Raoul Cauvin enjoys ongoing success and is currently writing 11 different cartoon series. In 2006 alone, he had six entries on the bestselling new comics list in France, includingCedricA” – also published in English by Cinebook – andThe Bluecoats.A” Also born in Belgium, Lambil published his first comic, Sandy, in 1959. He has drawn 45 volumes ofThe BluecoatsA” since taking over from Salverius, the series” original illustrator, who died in 1972.