Comments on: Buccaneers #1 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/01/13/buccaneers-1/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:18:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/01/13/buccaneers-1/comment-page-1/#comment-94418 John Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:40:56 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/01/13/buccaneers-1/#comment-94418 Ah yes, <em>The Black Dossier</em>. Should have remembered that, I wondered why Doctor Syn rang a bell. In addition, the late, great Patrick McGoohan played him in a TV adaptation from Disney in 1963. Ah yes, The Black Dossier. Should have remembered that, I wondered why Doctor Syn rang a bell. In addition, the late, great Patrick McGoohan played him in a TV adaptation from Disney in 1963.

]]> By: Rossco http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/01/13/buccaneers-1/comment-page-1/#comment-94394 Rossco Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:25:47 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/01/13/buccaneers-1/#comment-94394 No need to be coy about enjoying the Pirates trilogy, John! They're a rip-roaring romp. Your decription of Davey Jones' Lovecraftian- Hodgsonesque look is spot on too. I really want to see you illustrate a pirate tale in comics at some point- those designs are the business. Oh, Doctor Syn makes an appearance in Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's Black Dossier, check it out! No need to be coy about enjoying the Pirates trilogy, John! They’re a rip-roaring romp. Your decription of Davey Jones’ Lovecraftian- Hodgsonesque look is spot on too.
I really want to see you illustrate a pirate tale in comics at some point- those designs are the business.
Oh, Doctor Syn makes an appearance in Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s Black Dossier, check it out!

]]> By: AlyxL http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/01/13/buccaneers-1/comment-page-1/#comment-93445 AlyxL Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:11:24 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/01/13/buccaneers-1/#comment-93445 Seconding the recommendation of Dr Syn here. A combination of pirate, smuggler and vicar is always a good thing. Mind you, I came across him by way of the version broadcast on BBC radio 7; read (rather well) by Rufus Sewell, rather than the book. It's repeated pretty regularly, so you should be able to catch it in the next few weeks or so. Nice to see my personal favorite, Captain Slaughterboard, here too. Seconding the recommendation of Dr Syn here. A combination of pirate, smuggler and vicar is always a good thing. Mind you, I came across him by way of the version broadcast on BBC radio 7; read (rather well) by Rufus Sewell, rather than the book. It’s repeated pretty regularly, so you should be able to catch it in the next few weeks or so.

Nice to see my personal favorite, Captain Slaughterboard, here too.

]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/01/13/buccaneers-1/comment-page-1/#comment-93433 John Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:55:56 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/01/13/buccaneers-1/#comment-93433 Doctor Syn is someone whose exploits I've yet to read. Maybe something to follow up once I've sated myself on RLS. I'm aware of Fraser's book as well although it seemed a bit too broadly comic to attract me. I know that's contradictory given my praise of the PoC films... The post following this one gives an idea of the kind of pirate tale I've yet to find, something dark and fierce and voodoo-drenched. And I've read <em>Kidnapped</em> but I've yet to see the Michael Caine version. Maybe now would be a good time. Doctor Syn is someone whose exploits I’ve yet to read. Maybe something to follow up once I’ve sated myself on RLS. I’m aware of Fraser’s book as well although it seemed a bit too broadly comic to attract me. I know that’s contradictory given my praise of the PoC films… The post following this one gives an idea of the kind of pirate tale I’ve yet to find, something dark and fierce and voodoo-drenched. And I’ve read Kidnapped but I’ve yet to see the Michael Caine version. Maybe now would be a good time.

]]> By: Yvonne http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/01/13/buccaneers-1/comment-page-1/#comment-93366 Yvonne Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:51:04 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/01/13/buccaneers-1/#comment-93366 Arr, Pirates! Shiver me timbers! My favourite fictional buccaneer is Doctor Syn, the intelligentsia among pirates. (If you can have an intelligentsia of one - ah but then there's Happy Dan Pew in George MacDonald Fraser's romp, <em>Pyrates!</em> And the female pirates in Celia Rees' latest book (some shocking typos in that one, though). And of course Nancy Blackett. Talking of RLS, we enjoyed watching <em>Kidnapped!</em> with Michael Caine as Alan Breck - at one point his pseudo-Scots accent slipped and he was all "You do NOT want to do it like THAT..." Arr, Pirates! Shiver me timbers! My favourite fictional buccaneer is Doctor Syn, the intelligentsia among pirates. (If you can have an intelligentsia of one – ah but then there’s Happy Dan Pew in George MacDonald Fraser’s romp, Pyrates! And the female pirates in Celia Rees’ latest book (some shocking typos in that one, though). And of course Nancy Blackett.

Talking of RLS, we enjoyed watching Kidnapped! with Michael Caine as Alan Breck – at one point his pseudo-Scots accent slipped and he was all “You do NOT want to do it like THAT…”

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