Mac Coy is a series of comics made by Antonio Hernández Palacios and Jean-Pierre Gourmelen from the 1970s. For comic lovers, Palacios took the floor against other artists giving much importance to the characters. He deeply detailed the attitude of each of them in accordance with the conventions and the world of Western, large extended, gunmen, western conquests, bivouacs or saloons will be waiting for you. In addition the many features on the faces transcribe the emotions, and the famous cowboy is of course not forgotten. The importance of traits is found in few comic artists today.
As part of this series is the Wild West and the end of the Civil War in North America. Captain Alexis McCoy, Confederate heroes, before Savannah was captured by Union troops at the end of the war between the Confederates and Yankees, and then quickly drafted by the Yankees for his bravery and sense of dedication. He is on a mission to Mexico in search of a large sum of gold, after the diversion of the balance of a Union Army, accompanied by his inseparable companion Charley Adventure sergeant. After this failure, and some Mexican adventures, he returned to the United States and engages in a US cavalry regiment commanded by his former Southern general.
But McCoy is also some history in this western, period when the French occupied Mexico under Maximilian I st.
One can also quote the famous episode of French legionaries who stood head Juarists 3000 Mexican revolution to enable the backup of a convoy. This adventure is available in Volume 11 of the series entitled Camarón, town of the famous battle.
