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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 […]
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 […]
The Familiar Things
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 […]
Penultimate San Juan
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 […]
Almost done with the Caribbean…
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 […]
Greetings (finally) from Aruba!
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 […]
In Short…
It’s been a very exciting couple of months! After MoCCA I stayed in New York all summer, caught some of the CLBDF’s “Conversational Comics” panels and played an opera with the One World Symphony. In August I spent five weeks on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, filling in for their regular sax player. The month after that included a […]