Category Archive for Comics

The Familiar Things

By admin | Posted April 6, 2010

This is me at Polly’s, a food/coffee/internet cafe in St. Croix. It’s a favorite spot for the entertainment department, myself included, but I realized at some point that Polly’s wouldn’t look too out of place in any coastal city in the U.S. There are bags of organic coffee and handmade crafts for sale, wraps and […]

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Penultimate San Juan

By admin | Posted April 5, 2010

I just found a BEAUTIFUL new place for coffee and internet through the ship-musician grapevine. I’m in an open square with tons of benches and a few tables surrounding a coffee stand. People stroll by constantly: couples, families and friends, people with laptops, strollers and dogs. The weather is cloudy and cool, at least for […]

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Bonding in the Crew Bar

By admin | Posted March 31, 2010

Here’s a cartoon from Latin Night, drawn in ballpoint pen on the back of a bar bill. (I don’t know why I go anywhere without a notebook, seriously.) I’m not a fan of cigarette smoke or ear-splitting music, but I had a great time that night with Liz and the rest of her team. She’s […]

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Geeking it up in the Staff Bar

By admin | Posted March 30, 2010

This is how I’ve been spending the past few days, scanning all my sketchbooks from October to now, and getting them ready to post. It’s pretty satisfying, considering I’ve been talking about doing this since I got on the ship! Liz and I are sitting in the non-smoking bar on the ship; the “crew bar” is the smoking, […]

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Almost done with the Caribbean…

By admin | Posted March 28, 2010

La Bombonera is one of my favorite spots to eat in San Juan. A Puerto Rican guest showed it to me on my first Caribbean contract. (Then, months later, back home in Pittsburgh, I saw the familiar storefront in Tom Beland‘s auto-bio comic, “True Story, Swear to God”! His wife and in-laws were taking him there for a […]

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Greetings (finally) from Aruba!

By admin | Posted March 24, 2010

Here it is, the first cartoon of this contract! I drew it three days in, and have been keeping an almost-daily comic journal since then. (I was on a page-a-day roll for awhile, when messing with page layouts and drawing detailed buildings didn’t slow me down.) It’s hard to believe I’ve been on the ship […]