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Lindsay Smith recommends Thoughts from Iceland #2

If you’re like 97% of the population in my neighborhood, you have been yearning to visit the trendy glacial wonderland that is Iceland. For those of you who can’t swing a plane ticket, Lonnie Mann’s Thoughts from Iceland #2 is the sort of illustrated travel journal gem that you hope to discover at a cool indie comics show. 

Lonnie made this comic travelogue after a three-day trip to Iceland in December 2012, and a portion of it was included into the Digital category of the Society of Illustrator’s Comic and Cartoon Art Annual 2014. 

The story picks up after his adventures on Day 1 and Lonnie is being violently awoken from a jet-lag slumber by his alarm. There are several missed snooze buttons, but luckily for us he does wake up in time to make his trip to the Sólheimajökull glacier. Thoughts from Iceland is full of many familiar moments that anyone who has travelled outside their comfort zone will recognize, but the reader is also gifted with Lonnie’s attentive (and often humorous) observations of Icelandic culture, folklore, and landscapes. 

Hopefully Lonnie will have an opportunity to return to Iceland and pass on more of his experiences there, but in the mean time, check out Thoughts From Iceland #2. I also suggest his Thoughts from Iceland #1, Natalie Nourigat’s Amsterdam Sketchbook, and for the Francophone among us, Christian Clot’s Mary Kingsley. 

[Read Thoughts from Iceland #2 on comiXology]

_{Lindsay Smith is an International Production Coordinator Associate at comiXology. She lives in Brooklyn and stores comics in her sweater drawer, because bookshelves are for people who are way too optimistic about trips to Ikea. .}