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Beautiful Soldiers n°2

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Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:35 pm

moustic,

Awesome picture by the man, "Mort Kunstler".

All of his pictures are outstanding.

For the longest time I remember buying new Civil War calendars every year by Mort.

I believe I have saved the old calendars, every month's picture is frameable....

His web site is really cool.....

http://www.mortkunstler.com/

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Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:13 pm

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Yes for the first print... but, I do not know the second artist ?
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Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:17 pm

moustic wrote:Image

YES...


there you go, awesome ....... :)

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Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:10 am

Heh, should we post a few dozen images from Tuniques Bleues? Though I expect Lambil and long dead Salverius might object...
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Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:21 pm

I wonder if the "Tuniques bleues" comic serie is known at all in the States?

It's a wonderfull comic about the Civil War, following the adventures of two losers engaged in the Union cavalry.

Throughout the serie, I think they have tried everything possible in this war: Cavarlymen, Infantry, Civils, Sailors, Photograps, Confederates, Renegades, Bushwackers, submariners, rioters, prisonners of war, etc.

The old 90s game "North and South" was based on them.

Although looking completly ahistorical, I have been always amazed to see how the authors could use some historical and precise facts and actors.

This comic book was my first contact with the Civil War, but years after I must confess it is still a large of my (poor) knowledge.

Amazing comics, really. :coeurs:
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Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:02 pm

I'm not american but danish but i love them! and have almost all the albums still from my childhood :coeurs:

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Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:01 pm

I have never seen them over here, not in the South at least, and I am a pretty good collector of comic books. They look like they may be pretty entertaining.

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Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:52 pm

I loved them growing up, and even more so when I started serving as an officer in the Norwegian cavalry :D
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Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:41 am

Never seen the "Tuniques Bleues" in the Previews or any other comics retailer's order sheet. I don't think they've ever been translated for the US Market.


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Wed Jun 06, 2007 1:12 pm

Thanks. But the wikipedia article is a mere translation isn't it. I mean, the Tuniques Bleues were never released in the States?

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Yep, seems they were never translated into english.
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Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:26 pm

Great comics! I've got them all: I got interested very young in the ACW thanks to them!

But I'm sad to see that no one here has mentionned my favorite charachter: the (in)famous "capitaine Stark", commander of the Union 22nd Cavalry Regiment.
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The one regiment (according to the comics) with the highest casualty rate of the Union Army, thanks to its commander's psychotic behaviour: since a head wound in the 2nd volume of the comics, he now knows only one word "Charge" and is always seeking death in a glorious charge. Always seriously wounded, he never dies! :dada:

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Stark charging at the head of the 22nd

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That picture of Captain Stark is going to be my Avatar, since his style seems to match mine while playing AACW :mad:

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I hereby officially envy you, Stark being one of my personal favourites too :D
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You wouldn't envy me if you see the results my "optimistic" attacks get in game...I make Burnside at Fredricksburg look like a piker. :p leure:

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Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:14 pm

I'm glad to see that someone finally appreciate such a fine soldier as Stark! :bonk:

Remember, his sole word of vocabulary is now "Chargez!". That should make your next posts easier and quicker to type ... :dada:

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Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:09 am

This comic was one of the very first book I read when I was 6 or 7 !

In the meantime, I have learned more about the ACW, and especially how the role of the cavalry was completely different in reality (the psychotic behaviour of Colonel Stark would have rather found its place during Napoleonic Wars !)

Anyway, I always enjoy reading this comic, especially the early ones.

I think nobody mentionned that it started with an other guy for the drawings (I think he died after a few books), and also that first episodes took place before the ACW, where heroes were serving in small forts fighting vs the Indians...and admiring Colonel's daughter...Ms Amelia Appletown or something like that...

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Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:44 pm

The first penciler was Louis Salverius, who died at book 10 or so if I remember correctly. Then Willy Lambil took over the pencils.

As for the first épisodes, I'm not so sure they're pre-civil war. Actually, the context would seem to be late 1860's I'd say, just like the classic John Ford movies (or maybe I am wrong about this? :8o: )
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