Les Tuniques Bleues

The Bluecoats Les Tuniques Bleues
The two main characters: Sergeant Cornelius Chesterfield and Corporal Blutch
Publication information
Publisher	Dupuis (French and Dutch) Cinebook (English)
Format	Ongoing series
No. of issues	68 (in French) 17 (in English)
Main character(s)	Sergeant Cornelius Chesterfield & Corporal Blutch
Creative team
Created by	Raoul Cauvin & Louis Salverius
Written by	Raoul Cauvin
Artist(s)	Willy Lambillotte

Les Tuniques Bleues (Dutch: De Blauwbloezen) is a Belgian series of bandes dessinées (comic books in the Franco-Belgian tradition), first published in Spirou magazine and later collected in albums by Dupuis.^[1] Created by artist Louis Salvérius and writer Raoul Cauvin, the series was taken up by artist Lambil after Salverius' death. It follows two United States Army cavalrymen through a series of battles and adventures. The first album of the series was published in 1970. The series' name, Les Tuniques Bleues, literally "the bluecoats", refers to the uniforms of the Union Army during the American Civil War. Cinebook has started to print the comics in English as "The Bluecoats", releasing Robertsonville Prison in 2008. It is one of the best-selling series in French-language comics.