Obituaries
Bill Blackbeard, who grew up in Newport Beach, created an exhaustive archive of newspaper comics, preserving an American art form and helping to legitimize the study of comics in popular culture.
May 9, 2011
Bill Blackbeard dies at 84; scholar of newspaper comics
Politics
More than 300 years ago, Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, whose whiskered visage virtually defines the image of the 18th century pirate, ran his flagship aground near Beaufort, N.C.
June 3, 2019
Television
Pirates, skulduggery, an assassin and John Malkovich as Blackbeard? It’s all quite good fun, though the dialogue can be a bit baroque.
May 30, 2014
World & Nation
Effort to tie North Carolina shipwreck to pirate Blackbeard advances
June 19, 2011
Nation Now
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Oct. 27, 2011
Entertainment & Arts
Bald man, ahoy!
June 10, 2014
Blackbeard resumes his life of terrorizing ships and citizens along the east coast and Chesapeake Bay and in 1718, the most notorious pirate festival is hosted by Blackbeard on the beach at Ocracoke Inlet.Once a year visitors from all over the count
June 3, 2017
Afterword
May 11, 2011
‘Once Upon a Time’: Pirates face off in Hook vs. Blackbeard
April 14, 2014