Specially picked for you IF readers, this third selection of the Comic-Clone Reading List represents – in some ways – an artist’s dream come true.

Isaac the Pirate, written and drawn by the magnificent Christophe Blain, tells the ongoing story of a painter named Isaac who is shanghaied into the service of an ambitious pirate captain. Charged with documenting the pirate’s latest enterprise, the artist is protected from the crew but beaten by the captain if he doesn’t draw everyday. The comic wanders beautifully from sea to sea and back to France to track the story of the fiance that Isaac was forced to leave behind. For artists especially, this series of stories is frightening, liberating, justifying, and inspiring. If you ever need an entertaining kick in the pants, this is it. “You will draw every day!”

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