De Ruyter #4

This 2017 album from Strip2000 brings Dutch naval history to life in Pieter Hogenbirk's lively, cartoon-styled artwork — the cover shows a rowdy crew of sailors in blue uniforms charging forward on a wooden vessel, brandishing a crowned lion figurehead and a quill, while a pelican looks on from the rigging above. In a vignette at the bottom corner, a mustachioed figure writes purposefully at a desk, hinting at the strategic drama unfolding in Herman Roozen's story "De tocht naar Chatham." It's a fun, energetic package that makes seventeenth-century seafaring adventure genuinely hard to resist.