Second attempt

With the inflation it turned out the Eagle lost 35 cubic meter of gas each day.
And although good airmanship would have warned against it, Andree - who couldn't face an other humiliation - gave the order to continue …

In between

For balloon magazine 'Ballonstof' I made a story about Salomon Andree, a Swedish adventurer, who made an attempt to reach the North pole by gas balloon and failed. Since the 'brothers' take some more research I do some more drawings for Andree and make a full story of it.
Here is his hangar on Spitsbergen.

Background

The Collyer brothers grew up in a strange setting. Their father was a gynaecologist who went to his work by canoe and their mother was an opera singer. They lived in Harlem, New York. An upper class neighbourhood

The Collyer Brothers

I'm starting to work on a new story: The Collyer Brother. The sufferd from disosophobia; they were not able to throw away anything. In the end it killed them both.

Done!

This is the final picture! I'm done.

Finale

Tokyo 1931

The end of the journey. I'm very pleased with this image. I gave it the same colours as the picture of Berlin with which the tour started [14 aug.]