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Chris Schweizer

@schweizercomics / schweizercomics.tumblr.com

Cartoonist/Writer/KY Colonel/3x Eisner Award nominee/elder millenial. Former college professor, former social studies teacher. History buff, but certainly no expert. He/him
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SWASHTOBER 5: The Pirate King

Here's one of the big scene-stealers from the oeuvre of Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirate King, from PIRATES OF PENZANCE. I've never played the part, myself; I've been a chorus pirate and Major General Stanley, but the King's opener is probably my most oft-sung-on-my-own G&S number, when I'm choring and the like. If you haven't seen Kevin Kline's early 80s portrayal, it's just phenomenal.

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Swashtober 4: Lagardère

Today's swashtober drawing is the hero of Paul Féval (the older)'s revenge novel Le Bossu (the Hunchback). Lagardère is a swordsman who rescues and raises the infant daughter of a Duke whose evil cousin murders him and his family in order to inherit their fortune; in hiding for sixteen years, he disguises himself and enters into the cousin's service to systematically dismantle the fella's life, swordfighting along the way.

The novel has been made into a movie a few times; my favorite is the 1997 version (you can watch it on Tubi), sword choreographed by Michel Carliez; his dad, Claude Carliez, choreographed the 1959 version. If you're looking for good movie swordfights, both the father and son can be relied upon to always deliver - half the French swashbucklers I've seen were discovered through looking at their body of work.

Also, for folks grousing about how everything is IP these days: the reason I noted Paul Féval the older is that his son made good money churning out swashbuckler sequels and crossovers, including for Lagardère, D'Artagnan, Cyrano, and more.

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SWASHTOBER #1: Scaramouche! I'm gonna do SWASHTOBER this year! Here's the first, from what might well be the best swashbuckling novel (it's VERY good), SCARAMOUCHE, by Rafael Sabatini. He's a centrist shaken from his political apathy into a path of revolution, swordfighting, and improv comedy by the cruel machinations of the aristocracy (I wasn't planning to do an October drawing challenge BUT If I keep them under ten minutes and let them be sloppy, it might be fun. I'll use them as roughs/pencils for a set when my schedule frees up a bit)

This is one of the few (only?) Sabatinis that have been kept reliably in print, and there's also an excellent audiobook narration by Simon Vance, if you're looking for a good read!

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#Inktober day12: in October 1825, abolitionist, social reformer, writer, feminist, & all around 150-years-ahead-of-her-timer Frances Wright published "A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States Without Danger of Loss to the Citizens of the South" in the New Harmony Gazette, which generously misinterpreted Southern unwillingness to abandon slavery as a financial issue rather than a social one.

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#Inktober day 11: On this day in 1865, baptist preacher Paul Bogle led a protest march of hundreds of men and women in Jamaica.  Gov. Eyre’s crackdown attack on the march led to the Morant Bay Rebellion.

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Inktober Day 7:  born on this day in 1879, cartoonist-poet and labor organizer Joe Hill. 

My wife Liz was born into a mining family on her dad's side, and were in not for the safety measure forced on the companies by Hill and his ilk there's always the chance that she might never have been born, so from a purely personal standpoint I'm mighty grateful.

(As fun as those posters are/have been, they take too long and have been distracting me from "real" work I need to be doing.  So for the rest of the month, I'll do a "this day in history" without the oppressive burden of researching and writing a biographical essay.  I'm usually wont to do that, which is why my historical figure posts become infrequent... too much pressure on the essay end.)

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#Inktober poster rough challenge #5: Ridley Scott's ALIEN, 1979. Part of what makes the movie so scary is that it subverts your expectations to such a degree, even after having seen it plenty of times. I wanted to do a poster that compounds that, giving the stock archetypes their traditional role placement rather than how they play out in the film, which doesn't really give us a hint as to who the protagonist is likely to be until well over halfway through the movie. Though when I tackle finals on this, finding a reference still of Dallas where he doesn't look like he's teetering on the precipice of a nap is gonna be the real challenge. (this one looks a little rougher than the others because I sketched it in the car while out all day with Liz and Penny, and dropped some color over it when I got home).

Poster #1: ANGEL HEART Poster #2: GARFIELD’S HALLOWEEN ADVENTURE Poster #3: WESTWORLD Poster #4: THE FOG

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