{"id":3866,"date":"2009-01-14T01:41:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T01:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/14\/buccaneers-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-29T06:03:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T05:03:42","slug":"buccaneers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/14\/buccaneers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Continuing from yesterday’s post, these nameless characters were sketches for a proposed comic strip that writer Jamie Delano<\/a> and I were planning in the mid-Nineties. We had a feeling that the long-neglected pirate genre was due for a revival and talked about a revisionist take on buccaneering which would dispense with the Robert Newton antics and steer closer to the brutal reality. Among the touchstones there was On Stranger Tides<\/em><\/a> by Tim Powers, the anarchist pirate community in Cities of the Red Night<\/em> by William Burroughs and the ferocious scalp-hunters in Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece, Blood Meridian<\/em>. There was also talk of throwing some voodoo into the mix, hence the veve<\/a> tattoos. It wasn’t to be, of course. Little of my work has ever resembled mainstream comics fare and Jamie’s publishers, DC Comics, had already been underwhelmed by the detailed style I was using in the Lovecraft<\/a> and Lord Horror<\/a> comics. When I tried presenting them with some trial pages in a more open style I was told that they’d been expecting to see more of my detailed line work…<\/p>\n

We had a couple of other characters planned, including a tattooed islander inspired by Queequeg from Moby Dick<\/em>, but the samples here are the best of the sketches. The shark- or whale-jaw false leg was my own invention and something I’m fairly sure I’ve not seen before. I’ve no idea whether such a thing is workable but it was a nice touch.<\/p>\n

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Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Buccaneers #1<\/a>
\n\u2022 Howard Pyle\u2019s pirates<\/a>
\n\u2022 Druillet meets Hodgson<\/a>
\n\u2022 Rogue\u2019s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys<\/a>
\n\u2022 Davy Jones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing from yesterday’s post, these nameless characters were sketches for a proposed comic strip that writer Jamie Delano and I were planning in the mid-Nineties. We had a feeling that the long-neglected pirate genre was due for a revival and talked about a revisionist take on buccaneering which would dispense with the Robert Newton antics … Continue reading “Buccaneers #2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,28,9,47,16,23],"tags":[100,96,1282,73,1891,601,76,74,185,1190],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-burroughs","category-comics","category-cormac","category-occult","category-work","tag-blood-meridian","tag-cormac-mccarthy","tag-howard-pyle","tag-jamie-delano","tag-lord-horror","tag-moby-dick","tag-pirates","tag-tim-powers","tag-voodoo","tag-william-burroughs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-10m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}