what the hell is this about?

Several friends have embarked on their own P365 journey but as I have no camera nor an eye for photography I've decided to try to complete "a doodle a day" for an entire year. Most will be in my little Derwent A5 sketch book but some could end up being from the corner of some document or scribbled on a newspaper. As the year progresses I will try my hand at inking them as well?

If some of them don't make sense, don't worry, they're probably not meant to. You may notice there will be certain themes along the way and if you know me you'll know why.

I hope you enjoy.

Okay, here goes, every day til I'm 39.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Day #289 - X-Beard


Not much is known about his true identity but we do know how his piracy days begun, you see, X-Beard came from a long family of Haggis makers, in fact they were the only Haggis makers in the region and therefore their recipe and manufacturing process was a family secret. X-Beard is a twin, his brother and he ran the business.
The Francanamese though saw that this was a niche market where they could thrive in Europe and be able to impart a large profit margin, so, they reverse engineered one of the X-Beard Haggis and started making a a cheap replica back in Asia, they would flood the European market with it making X-Beard's family legacy almost worthless.

So, X-Beard hit the seas to stop the transports. his infamy rose and the Haggis imports ceased. When X-Beard heard of a young Francanamese pirate moving up the ranks in the waters of Europe he changed his focus. He soon dominated the seas and became the most powerful pirate in the region, although, he only targeted areas and businesses that competed with traditional European markets. The Chinese imported a Grana Padano imitation into Europe and X-Beard shut them down, he now had a favour owed to him by Don Carluccio whom controlled the local Italian market for parmesan.

X-Beard never returned to the Haggis business as his twin had the legacy and X-Beard's legacy would be to protect traditional European interests.

He was a hero for the region.

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