ARR-r-r-r! Avoiding the Pirates 3 movie because you heard it isn’t a seaworthy vessel? Me, too. Instead of going to the flicks I’m gonna spend tonight reading the book “Driscoll’s Book of Pirates”. It’s a reprint from 1934 of a McNaught Syndicate comic strip written by Charles Driscoll and illustrated by Montfort Amory. Cool names to be creating pirate stories, huh? Driscoll wrote a least two other books on pirates, over 400 pirate short stories and many magazine articles on this, “his favorite subject”. Amory’s art style reminds me a bit of Wonder Woman’s wonderful H. G. Peter but a little tighter. Driscoll, in his introduction to the book, says Amory “knows his ships and pirates as well as you know your neighbors and their cars”. THIS is great swashbuckling adventure, eat your heart out, Johnny Depp!

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By the way, if you’d like to see more fascinating old comic strips, you can’t do better than to sail over to expert comics historian Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide blog. I never miss a day of it’s amazing content! Stripper’s Guide shivers me timbers, and how many opportunities do you have to have your timber shivered on a daily basis? Click on the blog link in the right hand column of this page every day after visiting Arf Lovers, mate! ARRR-r-r-r-r-r!