Overboard
Overboard is Chip Dunham's surreal comic strip about a shipload of pirates anachronistically placed in modern times. (For example, they put quarters in dockside parking meters.) The pirates carry cutlasses by their sides, get their treasure stolen by more competent pirates, repulse women (who run from their fleas), and generally behave as though they had failed an intelligence test.
The main characters are:
- Captain Crow - the blundering skipper.
- Charlie - the comic straight man who's always trying to win the heart of his rival Cecilia.
- Nate - the fearsome but gentle giant.
- Louie - Captain Crow's dog, who acts like a normal dog. He doesn't speak but rather projects thought balloons like Garfield.
- Raymond - Cecilia's dog. Unlike Louie, Raymond walks on two legs, wears a hat, smokes cigarettes, and talks directly to humans. He can also understand Louie's thought balloons.
- Cecilia - captain of the rival crew.
- The cartoonist - often appears at his drawing table with a sign saying Overboard, Inc. Whenever Charlie comes into his office asking for a raise, he draws a sea monster to eat him.
Overboard is also the name of a 1987 movie starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.
