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Chris Schweizer

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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 9 is Prudence Tremaine, from Georgette Heyer's absolutely wonderful 1928 romance novel THE MASQUERADERS. When Prudence and her brother have to hide out because of their father's involvement in the Jacobite Uprising, they drag up and go into London society, where Prudence keeps finding herself having to fight off folks with swords, while her brother spends his time flirting with everyone. The romantic lead is great, too - he's basically Mr. Darcy as played by Dave Bautista.

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SWASHTOBER 8: Andrea Orsini

From Samuel Shellabarger's PRINCE OF FOXES, Orsini is a cynical courtier who's tasked with assassinating a prince and taking his place as a Borgias puppet (jackpot)! Only the target is a genuinely good fella who gives Orsini purpose greater than his own ambition.

There's a movie version of this from 1949, with Tyrone Power and Orson Welles, I haven't seen it, though, only read the novel.

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Swashtober 7: Fanfan la Tulipe!

Hello, friends! There IS no Swashtober #6 because I was in bed with a fever all yesterday, but I've been feeling a little better for the past hour or so. Still going to take it very easy but I thought I'd do a sketch if I felt up to it.

Fanfan la Tulipe is a delightful 1952 French swashbuckling comedy-adventure-romance movie. You can find the Criterion disk for very cheap! Fanfan is tricked into joining the army by a phony fortune teller who promises him a grand destiny, and decides he's going to make sure that destiny happens. Plenty of swordfights and one of the best horse chase and rescue scenes in cinema.

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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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