Hourly Comic Day challenges creators around the world to illustrate the minutiae of their lives in panels and sketches every year on February 1st. This is my ninth year contributing to the series, and I remain deeply in love with the whole practice. Read on for a window into my life right now:

It’s time for another installment of Hourly Comic Day! Every year on February 1st, creators around the world draw a panel (or panels) for every hour they’re awake. This is my eighth year participating, and I love it more and more each time around. It’s a great opportunity to reflect on where I’m at in my career, what’s changed in the past year, and how I’m feeling about the future. Full disclosure: while I penciled all eight of these pages on February first, I inked and painted about five of them on February second. I always want to watercolor my hourlies and never let myself do it so this year I got indulgent. Worth it.

A short comic about power.

A day of comics from the tropics.

Three weeks in the Pacific on an oceanographic research vessel, distilled in comic form. — At the tail end of 2016 I flew to Guam to take up my position as Artist-in-Residence aboard R/V Falkor, a state-of-the-art oceanographic research vessel owned by the Schmidt Ocean Institute. …

Stepping Aboard America’s Newest Sail Training Vessel In 2016 I had the pleasure of sailing with the Oliver Hazard Perry for six days as a voyage cartoonist. …

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Those of you who read my last Year in Review post will recall that I didn’t read as much as I would’ve liked to in 2014. So, spurred on by Austin Kleon’s excellent “How to Read More” list, I set out to read… Good News: I’m currently at 63, and…

A brief overview of the history of scurvy, brought to you by me, Lucy Bellwood, Professional Adventure Cartoonist and tall ship sailor, and Eriq Nelson, Professional Scurvy Know-It-All and Co-Researcher Extraordinaire. Catch this comic in full color in Baggywrinkles: A Lubber’s Guide to Life at Sea, the collected volume of all my autobiographical tall ship sailing stories.