Fanny Hawkins

Fanny Hawkins, better known as Jim, the name given to her on a boarding school. Her father was R.L. Hawkins, (Ben Gunn?), designer of the Hispañola, a ship as big as a city, destined to save the world. Fanny had a younger half-sister called Victoria. When Fanny was born, somewhere is 1760, a terrible disease raged over the world, first killing women and children and then mutilating, deforming and killing the men. A few managed to stay unaffected. The community on board of the Hispañola were among the lucky ones. For a while. Later there's mutiny and things become even worse than on shore.
The family history of Fanny is quite complicated and hopefully a fifth album once sees the light to clear things out. For now we have to do with this, maybe incorrect information. Many years of her life Fanny tried to find her father who was on board of the ship that had set out out sea long ago without her. At the end a man called Ben Gunn finds her instead and it is suggested he is her father. At least he becomes her guardian.
Somewhere in the void between the third and the fourth album she loses her hands and instead sharp knives are attached to her arms. What happened doesn't become clear. Is she captured and punished, did she had an accident? Fact is that the man who might be her father, Ben Gunn, has the same mutilations before she had them. She also finds a woman who she calls her mother but who is more likely to be an older sister. That woman is called Queen and Lioness. She has her castle and her kingdom on the land and she and Fanny make a deadly team for a while.
Fanny is ruthless, swift and deadly. And she is also the girl you'd like to help and hold and rescue from the harsh world she lives in and the fate that's hers.

series Hispañola, © Editions Vents d'Quest 1995-2000
For the Dutch edition © Arboris 1997/2002

Writer and artist first three albums: Fabrice Meddour
Fourth album artist Fabrice Meddour, Writers Fabrice Meddour and Philippe Mouret

When you learn that, apart from the ship's name being Hispañola and one of the main characters being Jim Hawkins, that there is also a Ben Gunn, a captain Smollett and a Long John Silver and some pieces of secret maps, you'll feel that the story somewhat leans on the R. L. Stevenson's story Treasure Island. (Stevenson has the same first initials as R.L. Hawkins) And this here is the better version.

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