Homage
It’s Spring in Baltimore, and our citizens’ thoughts turn to baseball, fire hydrant restrictions and, of course, the great harbor sea battle between Batholomew Neckbeard and the fleet of Lord Baltimore. For this week’s Illustration Friday I thought I’d pay homage to the terrible pirate lord, Captain Neckbeard, with this new linoleum cut.
Neckbeard terrorized what’s now known as the inner harbor and most of the Chesapeake for an entire summer, before heading out to sea again.
As a side note: my kids and I have been watching Pirates of the Caribbean…over and over. One striking feature of those films is that they contain some of my all-time favorite words:
Carbuncle
Cephalopod
Ecumenical
Egregious
Fishwife
Homunculus
Savvy
Shiny
Toot Sweet
Funny old world, innit?
Here’s the sketch I did on the train for Neckbeard:
Happy Illustration Friday.
Tags: drawing, IF, linoleum cut, neck beard, pirate
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Niiiiice! Really like the way it came out.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
do you mean tout de suite? hee hee! but it is pronounced toot sweet…this is so wonderfully creepy, love it Jim!! i like carbuncle too! ; )
[AUTHOR'S NOTE: Yes, I suppose it IS tout de suite, but who speaks Latin anymore?
Thanks for the comment. :) ]
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April 2nd, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Strong image, great cut!
It’s all about pirates with my boys too.
Ardy arrrr!
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
NECK
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
What a great piece. Very intense expression, it gives such a sense of Neckbeard’s personality. And I liked seeing how it went from sketch to linoleum cut. He got even fiercer along the way.