But the image needs to be VERY simple so it can be converted to a three- or four-color vector graphic to be printed on an awning.

Anyone know any good sources? ClipArt.com sucks. Search for pirates there and you'll find Jesus Christ, the occasional effeminate stereotypical Frenchman in a beret and weird striped clothing, and an odd semi-piratical fellow in a bar chatting up a lady with a bunny's head. No, really. I'd reproduce the bunnyhead pic here, but that might mess up my company's subscription to ClipArt.com (which would probably benefit us in the long-run.)

OKAY, OKAY, twist my arm. Here she is:

WTF?

I don't see no Jesus.

This is my favorite clipart site but I don't think it'll help with this request either.

But, seriously, WTF?

Try Google imagesearch for "pirate", select "advanced search" and then choose .GIF as the filetype. It will still take some rummaging around, but Arrr, Matey, it's a Treasure hunt, me bucko.
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Yer going to have to use the images as models and then redraw them, by thunder! Just swiping them would be PIRACY and you'd swing for it, you scurvy dog.

*drinks rum*

Christ's little-known swashbuckling period, post-crucifiction but pre-ascendency, of course. He was still a little pissed off about the nails and the spear in the side and all that and he took his anger out all over the Spanish Main.

Those are hilarious!

Shane, you could get something almost just exactly like the Captain Morgan you see here with this guy, if you wanted to do just a bit of coloring-in.

THANKS TAZ! So far I have something from a very similar drawing I simplified to this. I just hope it's simple enough for our Graphics Dept to use. Maybe I hope to BE in our Graphics Dept someday, LOL :-)

That last one looks like the pirate stole Santa Claus's clothes.

That last one looks like the pirate stole Santa Claus's clothes.

Okay, fine, so it's Santa's little-known swashbuckling period ;-)

Well, Santa is the patron saint of sailors, drowned children and hookers.

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