Category Archive for Comics
Another All-Nighter
I’m SO happy with how this one turned out! I’ve just finished another scanning/photoshopping marathon in the staff bar. Once I get started on something cartoon-related, I enjoy going forward until it’s done (as is illustrated by the clock on my screen that says “4:25am.” I hear the beach tomorrow is right near the ship. […]
Coloring Attempt #2
What’s fun to do in the staff bar? Sit in the introvert-corner with a beer, and play with the laptop! I was here until 6am last night. I started off working on my last post, and embarrassingly enough–it looks simple–I couldn’t get the text and photos where I wanted them. By the time I finished trying […]
Frikkin Tourists, and an A-HA moment
This is what we were looking at, if you’re curious: I also got a quick shot of the girls in the comic, using a trick shown me by a well-traveled ship-musician. She had her camera on a neckstrap, and walked around holding it about chest-level. Then she could surreptitiously take touristy shots while seemingly focused […]
Copious Time to Myself
This is the first cartoon I’ve colored on the computer. I’m not sure whether to be proud of this, or mildly embarrassed by the results. I was figuring out Paint.net, the generic Photoshop on my computer, as I went along; plus I don’t have a mouse, so I got a whole lot of this stuff […]
A Big Old FOMO
The staff bar was hopping earlier tonight. The production cast finishes their contract next week, so the replacement singers and dancers are already rehearsing onboard. Altogether, the staff bar contained two casts, half a dozen lounge musicians, some laptops in the introvert-corner, and tables full of waiters and Filipinos. The crowd is trickling out now, […]
Lessons [re]learned in Colombia
So, it’s 5:30pm. We have to be on the ship in less than 2 hours, but at least I’m outdoors now. In my imagination, Cartagena, Columbia would look like a scene from “Candide,” but the view out the porthole this morning looked more like New Jersey. Both mental images left me disinclined to venture out, […]
Goodbyes for Real
The street scene is in Bridgetown, Barbados. I admit that in 2 years, I’ve spent most of my Barbados-days at a crew-hangout beach bar, partying like an undergrad, but one can also walk into the city where “real people” eat and shop. The buildings are a combination of crumbling former colonial grandeur, pastel-colored, decades-old multi-story […]
Moment with Liz
I never figured out how to caption this one succinctly. I don’t even know if it’s funny in context; I just wanted to draw Liz’s cute moment of panic when I called her “babe” in a guest area. I work in the theater, so I‘m not used to self-censoring. Liz is used to monitoring her […]
Checked Out
This is me at work. Me, Cody and Jeremy. I play in a 7-piece band in the theater: piano, bass, drums, and four horns. Three nights a cruise, we play production shows behind a cast of singers and dancers our age. The cast stays on for six months at a time, and the production shows […]