With the help of New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler and Oregonian columnist Steve Duin, we’ve been working hard on our book, Oil and Water, a book-length comic that is a fictional account of the experiences of the PDX to Gulf Coast team as they traveled from New Orleans, LA to Mobile, AL to witness, firsthand, [...]

Shannon Wheeler, comic book creator and New Yorker cartoonist, and Steve Duin, writer and Oregonian columnist, both part of the PDX to Gulf Coast team, have partnered to create Oil and Water. This is a  book length comic that is a fictional account of the experiences of the PDX to Gulf Coast team as they [...]

“On the first day in New Orleans I had lunch near Bourbon Street at a place known for its oyster po’ boys. I asked the waiter for a recommendation. He said the meatball sandwich was good. All the seafood was still on the menu but the anxiety of eating oil/dispersant food was still in the [...]

“I met Rusty while drawing boats in Mobile, Alabama. He’s a fisherman but he retired for health reasons; 5 heart attacks. He was told not to eat the fish from the South side of the but everywhere else was OK. He still eats the fish.” We’re very excited to have cartoonist Shannon Wheeler with us [...]

Sketched at a shrimp processing plant. We’re very excited to have cartoonist Shannon Wheeler with us on this project as he’s working on documenting the whole project through drawings and cartooning. We’ll be featuring some of his daily sketches — pulled directly from his sketchbook — here on The Daily Spill. Keep checking back for [...]