The artist Carlos Ezquerra was the original artist for Judge Dredd, which was created a few years after this, from 1977.
Yes, that's correct, El Mestizo, a boy born enslaved, one parent black, one Mexican, only to return to the States to play Yojimbo with the Union and the Confederacy, is the creation of a pair of Englishmen.
Reading it is weird as well, since at that time in the UK the dialogue and copy is all printed instead of handwritten.
I'll return to comment more once I've finished it. It's an interesting look at "America and American," and very like the Italian comic Tex in that way.
