Lucy Bellwood is a cartoonist and tallship sailor. Last year, I learned about her kickstarter project for
Baggywrinkles: A Lubber’s Guide to Life at Sea. Since my teen years, I’ve read history books about the early years of the US Navy especially the actions against the Barbary pirates of North Africa and the War of 1812. I’ve read the novels of CS Forester’s Horatio Hornblower, Dudley Pope’s Lord Ramage, and Rafael Sabatini’s Captain Blood. Lucy is only the second cartoonist I know with such love for sailing ships. I picked up one of her new books
A Week at Sea with OHP in Seattle at
Emerald City Comicon 2017. Lucy has an upcoming booklet on her oceanic research trip aboard the
Falkor which used new sonar techniques to map the ocean floor.
