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A vampire — surely Lugosi himself! — riff on Captain Blood, with a Moby Dick reference no less, by friend and arms historian Jim McDougall. 🙂
Is the ship the Arabella, the Pequod, or the Demeter? 🙂
Comic copyright by Jim McDougall, 2021-2022. Blog copyright Benerson Little 2022. First posted October 17, 2021.
“Jack Tar — armed literally to the teeth — with a combat sword in each hand for use, and a third between his teeth for…
Arguably only a few illustrators have matched, and none have surpassed, Howard Pyle (1853-1911) for his iconic pirate images and their contribution to the modern…
If you’ve read any or all of parts I though IV of this series (In Fiction, In Film, in Rafael Sabatini’s novel The Black Swan,…
Perhaps the most famous of Howard Pyle’s many piratical paintings and drawings, and certainly the most evocative, “Attack on a Spanish Galleon” has inspired many…
Far too little-known are the Spanish corsarios of the Caribbean — the Spanish privateers and pirates who attacked the English, French, and Dutch in the…
Modern histories of so-called Golden Age pirates — those circa 1655 to 1730 — are often filled with images of pirate ships, many of which…
Originally posted on Treasure Light Press: Comic by William Steig, The New Yorker, 1952. I’ve seen myself in comics before — Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom…
Originally posted on Treasure Light Press: “Captain Blood” by Jim McDougall, 13 April 2021. Courtesy of and copyright by Jim McDougall. A vampire — surely…
And indeed he was a picturesque — and picaresque! — fellow, the buccaneer! Howard Pyle’s painting of this romantic sea rover has influenced the imaginations…
A practical, yet certainly tongue-in-cheek, post about creating a buccaneering sensory environment while reading Captain Blood in your armchair, playing Blood & Plunder or Oak…
It’s an epic image, one that anyone who’s ever cruised through the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at one of the Disney theme parks is…
Classic film buffs, fencers, armchair adventurers, real swashbucklers, and romantics of many other stripes may debate over which film duel is the “best.” But no…
Swordplay & Swashbucklers 