Dr Maturin, a glass of wine with you

I have long been a fan of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels. Some time back a friend of mine suggested that I consider turning them into a graphic novel. I balked at the time - I would probably need to be Geoff Hunt to successfully put Mr O'Brian's work into drawings or paintings - but the idea has stuck with me. Though I don't know about graphic novels, the idea of writing a vignette or two, even just for myself, is appealing. Raw materials abound in several accounts of that period of history, some of them contemporary, and how nice it would be to revisit Jack and Stephen.