Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
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Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor is a darkly humorous children's picture book written and illustrated by the British author Mervyn Peake
and published by Country Life in 1939. It was his first published work. The story concerns the nautical exploits of the titular captain and his rambunctious crew aboard their ship The Black Tiger. After some episodic adventures they take on-board a small humanoid creature referred to only as Yellow: with whom Slaughterboard develops a strange platonic infatuation. His loyal crew gradually fall prey to misadventure and the book ends with the Captain and the Yellow Creature forsaking piracy for fishing.. The book is notable for Peake's poetic style and fine illustrations of the many fantastical beasts they encounter on the journey. Captain Slaughterboard also makes an appearance in the comic book
series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
where The Black Tiger is used as a venue for a pirate conference.
Mervyn Peake
Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R...
and published by Country Life in 1939. It was his first published work. The story concerns the nautical exploits of the titular captain and his rambunctious crew aboard their ship The Black Tiger. After some episodic adventures they take on-board a small humanoid creature referred to only as Yellow: with whom Slaughterboard develops a strange platonic infatuation. His loyal crew gradually fall prey to misadventure and the book ends with the Captain and the Yellow Creature forsaking piracy for fishing.. The book is notable for Peake's poetic style and fine illustrations of the many fantastical beasts they encounter on the journey. Captain Slaughterboard also makes an appearance in the comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, publication of which began in 1999. The series spans two six-issue limited series and a graphic novel from the America's Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm/DC, and a third miniseries...
where The Black Tiger is used as a venue for a pirate conference.