Edward Teach, the infamous pirate known as Blackbeard, was born in England in 1680 and died in 1718 on Ocracoke Island. You guessed it, that's part of the Outer Banks in North Carolina. Very little is ...

For a while there, it seemed like Stede Bonnet was living the life expected of someone in his respectable position. He was married with a trio of children. He even held the rank of Major in the local ...

BATH, N.C. — In a pirate-worthy broadside on conventional history, a Raleigh, N.C., author claims Blackbeard and many of his henchmen weren’t rogue Englishmen but sons of North Carolina landowners.

Famed pirate fired lead shot, nails and glass from cannons. June 12, 2011 — -- The notorious pirate Blackbeard used improvised weapons and missiles to terrorize the seas from Virginia to the ...

Despite being the most important villain throughout most of One Piece's story, the majority of Blackbeard's greatest feats ...

You can bet we'll get more Blackbeard in One Piece's final saga, but we've already seen some impressive things from him.

Kevin Duffus received an instructive lesson the first time he tried to crack one of Blackbeard the Pirate’s secrets. Hunting through the back roads of coastal North Carolina, the persistent history ...

Comics archivist Bill Blackbeard died last month, a man whose lifelong dedication to preserving the earliest examples of newspaper comics strips... Much of what we know today about the earliest days ...

Bill Blackbeard, an early scholar of newspaper comics who created an indispensable archive in San Francisco that helped legitimize the study of comics in popular culture, has died. He was 84.

Yo ho ho! The pirate comedy "Our Flag Means Death" is back for a second season, and we couldn't be more excited to catch up with Stede, Ed, and the rest of our favorite criminal misfits. The quirky ...

Two of our favorite Kiwi comics are reuniting for one of the silliest projects we’ve heard of in a while. Rhys Darby stars in the Taika Waititi comedy series Our Flag Means Death. The HBO Max show ...