Luc Gauthier wrote:Hell , If there is a vote for Conan O Brian then how about Conan the barbarian
...or even Cohan the Barbarian -- one of the funniest characters in one of the funniest series: Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. I think I may recall some SERIOUS port drinking among the staff and faculty of the Unseen University in Angk-Morpork, mightiest city on Discworld.
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To be honest, though, I don't believe they, or even Jack Aubrey influenced my port drinking all that much.
Conan the Barbarian was developed by Robert Howard in the 1930's in a series of short stories. Some of his early stories were actually not bad and pretty serious literature. It was only later that he became a comic book charicter.