Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Monday, October 25, 2010

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 …

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

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.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

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