Tag Archive for ships

Guest Sightings

By admin | Posted January 29, 2012

Apologies for the odd proportions here; as you can imagine, I was going for quickness and discretion while I was drawing the guests…

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Doing the Math

By admin | Posted January 26, 2012

I drew this in Tasmania, our first port. It was mostly an excuse to mess with gray tones; I used two brush pens filled with different ratios of ink and water. (You know who does this really well? Ben Dewey and his Tragedy Series–Check it out!)

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First Impressions

By admin | Posted January 23, 2012

Here are some sketchbook bits from my first days onboard. (I don’t know how anyone makes it through safety/environmental training without a sketchbook!) Speaking of environmental training: The training is about how the ship’s recycling, air and water systems work, so that no-one clogs the water filtration system with used condoms, or gets hurt from […]

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I Made it to Sydney!

By admin | Posted January 19, 2012

After 30+ hours in transit, I made it to Sydney. I arrived the day before my contract started, so I met up with an Australian friend from my first contract. He gave me the best possible reception: a beachfront breakfast in nearby Brighton! Next I took the train into Sydney, and spent the whole day […]

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Crew Bar Confusion, p. 4/4

By admin | Posted September 9, 2011

This was by far the hardest page to write. Most of the comic wrote itself back in February, but how to wrap up the story, sum up the complicated feelings surrounding this experience, and pack it all into limited space? By the time I was satisfied with the text, the artwork was 7 months old, […]

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Crew Bar Confusion, p. 3/4

By admin | Posted September 8, 2011
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Crew Bar Confusion, p 2/4

By admin | Posted September 5, 2011

I started this comic several months ago. I was looking through old journal comics, and noticed how many of them only make sense if you were there, or at least have worked on ships. So this is me turning over a new leaf, in that department. (Those are all actual quotes in the comic, by […]

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Crew Bar Confusion, p. 1/4

By admin | Posted September 2, 2011
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Last Day of the Contract

By admin | Posted August 4, 2011

The shuttle took us from the ship to the airport at 9am. My flight wasn’t till 5, so I checked my bags and took a train back into Amsterdam. I found the usual requirements–coffee, internet, and old buildings–and then sketched in an outdoor cafe til it started raining. The first day off the ship always […]

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End-of-Contract Moments

By admin | Posted August 3, 2011

These were a couple of sketches I did right before leaving the ship. Sorry I haven’t updated in awhile; these sketchbook pages feel like a cop-out. I got off the ship July 21st, had a week in New York, and then went up to Vermont for the Center for Cartoon Studies summer workshop! That’s where […]

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