Acknowledgments

Scallywags would never have happened without a bunch of people. This includes the crew of "The Black Witch" who took me to see POTC2 (including Lucie and Kinu who inspired a couple strips, and first and foremost Riki who is partly resonsible for Pierce's character design and let me use her brilliant idea. :-))
I also need to thank Sapphire, my Pirate Consultant, for asking the question "why not make it a comic strip?" when I showed him some of the first sketches of Drake and Pierce.

WHY?!

Because it's funny. My main goal with putting Scallywags online is to make you smile. If I've succeeded, I'd be happy to know..
My comic/story projects tend to be long and complicated and nothing is ever what it seems at first. They are of the "well, you just wait until page 350! The story hasn't really started yet" kind, which is all very well, but Scallywags gives me a break from that. Because it is exactly what it seems - a silly comedy about pirates. And no one has to wait around for the big plot to unfold. Every strip or one-shot is a story or a complete joke in itself . That doesn't mean that readers who bother to stick around won't learn more about the characters or meet new ones as the "story" progresses.

Me

Hello, my name's Marie "M-chan" Mortensen. I do have e-mail. I'm just about a quarter of a century old. I draw and I write and I study and I teach and I do layouts and design, and all this means I'm living a strange kind of double life. and have next to no time for being a pirate.
I'm an expert foamswordswoman and an excellent navigator who uses my female intuition and turns the map upside down (occasionally on purpose), and my biggest drawbacks as a pirate are that I'm lousy at stealing things without saying I'm sorry and giving them back to their rightful owner, and that I easily get seasick.

The Cast

Drake Name: Charles Drake Age: 16 Occupation: Cabin boy

Pierce Name: James "Pierce" Age: 28 Occupation: Captain of that fine ship The Black Sheep

Acknowledgments

WHY?!

Me

The Cast