Ye Old Pirate Comix

[Torplexed]

Recently came across some old photostats of a pirate comic strip idea I originated in high school. This was back when I thought I was hot stuff cuz I owned a technical pen set for doing straight lines. W00t!
The pirate captain's name was Fatbeard. In retrospect, I should have named him Shortbeard. His crew was incompetent, jaded and bored. The sharpest of the sorry lot was a rat. Sort of a sea-going version of Crock. Most of the gags were at best lame and juvenile. Nice to know some things never change. ;)

Oh well....at least it's a brief antidote to all the heavy political stuff on this forum.

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[Bort]

:rotfl:Those are very funny, nice job, and good drawings too.:up:

[Yahoshua]

Yeah......some of the stuff you've got is actually pretty good.

Try doing some more and show us what you got.

[TteFAboB]

:rotfl: That's really cute.

Love them cartoonists. :up:

[Takeda Shingen]

Those are not bad at all. The placement of the ship and crew in clearly modern times is paradoxically comic. You should not sell short your works, for if published, I would read this strip. If you were to update to your now, more sophisticated sense of humor, I think that this would be a possibility.

[STEED]

Makes a change to see something funny on here for a change.;) :rotfl:

[JJ]

Hahaha.. Excellent, Torplexed. You should definitely do more.

Came to think on a comic like that it'd be neat if the skull on the captain's hat would change it's expressions depending on the situation :lol:

[Onkel Neal]

It's better than 90% of the stuff I read in the newspaper. :yep: I've said it before, I'll say it again: get an agent and get syndicated. Pirates are really popular subject matter, there isn’t a nationally syndicated pirate strip, you know the material very well, you have wit and skill….. You are missing your claim to fame, Craig.

[Takeda Shingen]

It's better than 90% of the stuff I read in the newspaper. :yep: I've said it before, I'll say it again: get an agent and get syndicated. Pirates are really popular subject matter, there isn’t a nationally syndicated pirate strip, you know the material very well, you have wit and skill….. You are missing your claim to fame, Craig.


Not to lay thickly, but I agree. At this point, Craig, all that you truly need is a comedic agle, such as the ID-dominant humor in Dilbert, or the masterfully-done extistentialism of Calvin and Hobbes. You are very close to having something here.

[Sailor Steve]

...there isn’t a nationally syndicated pirate strip...
Actually there has been one for years, called Overboard.
http://ucomics.aolsvc.aol.com/news/overboard/

But I love Torplexed's stuff.

[WutWuzDat]

great stuff Torplexed.... :up:

[Onkel Neal]

...there isn’t a nationally syndicated pirate strip...
Actually there has been one for years, called Overboard.
http://ucomics.aolsvc.aol.com/news/overboard/

But I love Torplexed's stuff.

Never saw that one before. Torpy's is better :yep:

[Torplexed]

Thanks for the compliments guys. :) Actually I did try to get it syndicated years ago but no one was interested. They seem to feel it was too derivative of what was already out there. Been a long time since I tried drawing these characters anyway.

Used to be more but all I can still find are some old ink studies.

http://zioxville.homestead.com/files/FB4.jpg

[Bort]

There are only nine pins in the last comic...

Could this be subliminal messaging of some kind?:hmm:

[The Noob]

:rotfl:

Those are Priceless!:up::rock::yep:

Love it.:up: