You: “Hey Sean, isn’t this supposed to be a website for your art?  I’m glad you’re having a good time, but what’s with all the pictures and stories about your travels?  Where are the videos and the comics?”

Me: “This site is just for me and whatever I’m up to.  Right now I’m pulling Herman K. Bobbie and fucking off for the winter to get my situation straight.”

You: “Ok…”

Me: “I’ve got a new concept that I’ll come out with in the spring, guns blazing.  And I’ll have a whole new website for those comics while this will still be my personal blog and document of my adventures.  Dig it?”

You: “Yeah, I dig it.”

Me: “So we’re cool?”

You: “Yeah, we’re cool.”

So here on the ship, there were three New Year’s parties. One was in the main Atrium, one up on the top deck amphitheatre, and one in a small bar. The small bar one I didn’t have anything to do with. The one up top on the open deck was a big rock show. But I was stationed on the one in the Atrium. That was a formal affair with the theatre orchestra playing jazz music, and a big balloon drop.

Champagne table yet untouched

Family partyin'

Orchestra in the Atrium

Tynae & company

At first I wanted to be on the big party up top but Tynae and I both agreed that we got the better deal. All we had to do was make sure that party favors were in place at quarter to eleven, then go drink on the company’s dime until quarter to twelve when we hand out party favors. Then it’s countdown time, and by 12:20 we were up at the deck party. And then into the nightclub.

Me and Nick, lead singer for house band Axis...

The scene up top

That's Tynae and the tequila shots that the cruise staff were about to do

And that’s about it except for the video that I tried to upload but that’s way too slow and uploading it makes it so I can’t do anything else.  Another time!!!

As much fun as I’m having here, the most exciting thing about it is the feeling of rebirth as I look forward to getting back to my art. i want an uninterupted day to do nothing but draw comics so bad!!

This is how we do it for the Holiday Season.  This is how I was livin’ on Christmas.

I’m sitting in a Starbucks in Puerto Vallarta, trying to upload some videos and it is just not cooperating.  So I hope that I can upload pictures a little easier.

Here is a view of downtown P.V. from 14 stories up:

At first I wasn’t sure I liked Mazatlan because the port is so ugly:

But then I discovered Old Town and now I love it.  It’s a beautiful old city with a lot of character.  They say you have to take a taxi to get anywhere, but you can walk from the port to Old Town in under ten minutes.

The cathedral is the middle of the whole city

The cathedral is super-gorgeous inside

I love treats in a foreign language.

Battery is at 16%.  I have to get out of here.

Peace!!!!!

I’m looking out over Cabo San Lucas, watching people water- and jet-ski while the radio tells me that Christmas Bells Are Ringing.  It is an odd juxtaposition.

I’m realizing that loved ones really are important at Christmastime, even though I’m excited to see Santa pull up to the ship in a boat today.  Why doesn’t he just land his sleigh on up top, you ask?  Yes, I asked that as well.  The story goes that there is no good landing strip on the ship so he’s parking the sleigh at the marina and coming to the ship by tender boat.

Merry Christmas to all of you.  I love you all, I miss you, and I can’t wait to see you all in the new year!!

What up, chiggedy-champs?

Getting time on the internet is a bitch.  I composed a long entry that I was going to put up last week but then I ran out of minutes and now it seems too outdated.  Anyways, here’s some recent goings-on….

New Camera:

Time is super tight here.  I haven’t done any work on my comic book since I’ve been here.  But whatever.  If I don’t finish it on the ship, I’ll stay in L.A. at the end of my contract and finish it there, kind of like how the Rolling Stones might go to L.A. to record an album.

Who can think of work surrounded by all of this??

Omar and Sherwin at work

Puerto Vallarta

This is two of my colleagues after we lost at crew VS passenger water-volleyball

some people kickin' it

speedboat ride

This was my boating companion on the ride to the ziplining place

Wouldn't it be fun to live here?

Typo or practical joke?

Oh snap!  Battery’s running out on this computer!!  More pictures to come as soon as I can get back online.  I miss you and love you all!!

Coming Soon:

• Ziplining and rapelling adventure tour
• submarine ride to see fish and sea lions
• random stuff

Technically, I am off in the Pacific Ocean a few miles out from Cabo. We left this morning.

Tim Ferris has a TV show??? Man, this gets into the hardest part about living on this ship: I am so disconnected.

Internet is really really expensive here, and we only get it in the one room. This ship is way behind the times in all forms of technology.

But in the plus column, I am so glad to be enjoying sun and 30+ degree days while my countrymen are buried under snow. I have wanted to get away from winter for so long, and now here I am. Living the dream, phase one. Well, phase 53948574, but who’s counting?

I got away right before winter hit my hometown of Toronto, Canada. Steph put up winter pics on her blog and seeing snow tripped me right out. So not what I’m about right now.

I will post pics and vids ASAP, but just wanted to put this up to say hello, and let the faithful know I’m still around. Now that I am getting settled, I should be updating much more frequently. Can’t wait to do vids with the people I am living and working with here aboard the Sapphire Princess.

Love the work, but SuperParty is still my priority. I haven’t drawn any comics since I’ve been here, but it’s only been a couple of weeks. I’m going to have to step on the gas. Worse comes to worst, I will just stay in L.A. for a while when I get off the ship and finish it there. Kind of like The Rolling Stones going to record a foreign locale to record an album.

Much more to come. But right now, signing off. I love you all.

You don’t have to tell me anything about it. I don’t need the title, the director, what it’s about, nothing. Just tell me that something new has come from the Pixar studio and that’s all I need. I’m there.