The Adventures of Captain Jack

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The Adventures of Captain Jack is an influential furry comic book created by Mike Kazaleh and published by Fantagraphics in 1986 ^[1].

The book follows the misadventures of a shady private starship captain and his misfit crew. The cast of characters includes Captain Jack (of course), the self-assured, gray-furred cat captain of the starhip Glass Onion; Herman Feldman, crewmember dog (who actually likes "space food"); Beezlebub (sic), Herman's tiny, demonic sidekick (who is invisible to the rest of the cast); and Adam Fink, an android dog who usually gets stuck with the heavy lifting. Later, they are joined by Janet (a raccoon), a farmer's daughter that falls in love with Herman.

The crew's adventures included encounters with a crazy wizard and his giant pinball machine, the farm planet of Janet's father, Herman's near-death experience (where God is shown to actually be the almighty dollar), the attempted rescue of lost astronaut Stanley Tomcat (who doesn't want to be rescued), a planet of TV-hating housewives, and more. The series was enhanced by Kazelah's smooth, animation-influenced artwork, reminiscent in style to that of Chuck Jones.

It has been collected as The Collected Captain Jack and More Collected Adventures of Captain Jack, both from MU Press ^[2].