
Back to havana – List of Comic Illustrations
FWIW, Here is a list of the comic illustrations that the team in Havana has worked on for the past year (plus). They all correspond to specific action in the dialogue.
- Flight Down
- Finn Shuffles Cards
- At the airport, they’re met by Pablo, an accomplished professor…
- Pablo is a master of architectural detail, pointing out the Spanish…
- …as close as a streetlamp. Suddenly, a giant wave disrupts…
- …dressed from a different era. Nina remarks that there must be…
- …so weird for the Malecon. They walk down the long palm-lined…
- …snap some shots with Pablo. Suddenly, a wiry young man…
- …two others in hot pursuit. He trips on the last step…
- …a taxi and yelling: “Solo vamos. en cualquier sitio…
- …party disappears into the hotel, she looks in her viewfinder and…
- …go to the front desk and grab a Havana Daily Telegraph newspaper…
- …ceiling in an elegant hotel. He suggests they continue their overly-animated…
- The three of them sit on a couch overlooking the gardens,…
- …everyone else who could escape. So where did that bottle come…
- …waiter pours another and says, “It’s your first night in Havana…
- …in some crazy dream. Because there’s Edith Piaf in the corner…
- Nina returns, only to announce that her room key doesn’t work…
- Just then an old-school press-man approaches with a pencil and spiral notepad…
- …him all of her photos. He’s as flabbergasted with her camera…
- …as hell needed the cash. “I’ll take it.” She prints…
- Pablo reached into his jacket pocket to be sure he still had…
- “What’s the writing on the tape?,” Nina asked. “It…
- …in the suburb of Marianao. Led by maverick choreographer Roderico “…
- “OK, level set guys,” said Finn. “We’re back…
- Jorge jumped into a cab outside the Nacionale with the mobsters in…
- Jorge hustled upstairs, while the driver looked around. He’d never…
- He drifted off, content with his generational Cuba taxi-driver fantasies,…
- …it, but moved on, applying a small bandage before putting…
- …grandfather had given him and picked a few choice [Churchill Cohibas]…
- …scary to consider as viable. On his deathbed, Nicola had…
- “Let’s take the Caddy, friend. Leave your car here –…
- “To the Club Tropicana in Marianao. What’s your name, by…
- Twenty minutes later, they slowly rolled past the giant palm trees…
- Sal had been sitting at the bar for awhile, when Snowball…
- Snowball was immaculately groomed and tailored, but nothing over the top…
- “Got something for you, Sal. Good saleable information. But…
- “Here’s your normal stack, Snowball. Plus a cherry for playing…
- “Sure, Sal. What do you have to go home to…
- …back and forth beneath her, Genetta was a vision in a…
- Her eyes moved across the table. Lefty, the Trop’s credit…
- …minutes, arm in arm. Finn hardly noticed, totally in…
- …and Finn was cleaning up. Mr. Fox ordered rock lobsters…
- As she got up, Finn caught her eye again and she…
- It didn’t appear that the two knew each other, but she…
- The rest of the table lost $45,000, most…
- Sal was at the wheel, having paid off the driver for…
- Despite the late night, Finn was up early. The four-bedroom…
- OK, that settles that, Finn mused: we’re still back…
- …noticed on his way in. The Havana Riviera was the epitome…
- …cabana club and pool area. The largest in Havana, the…
- In the corner adjacent the dining veranda, a small photography team…
- …Parisian accent, no less. He presented Finn to the other…
- “More rum, guys?” It was the Latino from last night…
- Finn checked the label once more: it was dog-eared in one…
- …break before “cocktail hour.” Finn excused himself- down just $…
- But no one ever talked about the most saleable thing in town…
- By 1957, Batista’ had formed a secret police ( Buró para…
- The Mob had it’s network of snitches as well, eager to…
- At the center of this maelstrom of whispers was Sal, a…
- “Vin, I’ve got something for your boss,” he said into…
- “I can’t tell if the driver is from ‘now’ or ‘then’- he…
- …keep celebs at the table. Thing is, the bottle of…
- “Great work, Sal; I’ll leave an envelope at the regular…
- And Finn, being a gentleman as well, had let her…
- She moved closer to Pablo as he drove with the top down…
- Nina awoke, and they went inside for a tour that the…
- Sunset would be soon, so if he wanted to get back…
- …the limits of Time Travel. He’d made the trip so many…
- He pulled Nicola’s Humidor down from it’s spot, took out one…
- As cigar smoke filled the room, and sunlight streamed through the…
- The man loved his cars. The faster, the better….
- …had planned in his little lab. If his grandfather had loved cars…
- The room was filling with smoke now, floor to ceiling,…
- “I was thinking I could pay you again, friend. Another…
- …, and they packed in. Before they pulled out, Jorge…
- Ralph thought for a moment. He fixed cars for rich guys…
- When the Bacardi tour was over, Pablo sensed Nina had had…
- “Every man should have a good story to tell, when he…
- He continued. “And so I think of things to talk…
- …writer buys you a drink: she batted her eyes, and…
- Papa spooled out his stories, stretching them further and further into…
- “Pablo,” said Nina, “I spent my whole career trying…
- Maybe that’s the problem, Nina. Your addiction is digital.”…
- “Yeah, maybe. But it makes me feel good.”
- “Exactly, you need your ‘fix.’ But what about real…
- …kept getting sexier and sexier. As the two walked back to…
- Energized by their taunts, she squatted to the level of Pablo’s… [out of sequence]
- Genetta was wrapping up her modelling shoot as the sun set over…
- As the “magic moment” approached, Genetta positioned herself on…
- Finn had returned from upstairs just in time to catch Genetta’s sunset…
- “Finn, we thought you’d miss the sunset show, mon ami…
- As Nat and Genetta walked across the pool deck through the sculpture-…
- Sal was still in the lobby as Snowball came in the front…
- …and make it a duet. She was ready for her moment…
- “Not bad at all young lady,” said Nat. “Not…
- Finn was having a rare moment. He was totally falling for…
- As the song ended, she sensed it was better to leave…
- That was probably a mistake. From Sal’s vantage point, he…
- This was no ordinary garage that Jorge and Ralph were pulling into…
- The teams began to disperse except for the last Ferrari team,…
- “So, Fangio, are you going to use that ‘I need…
- “Vafancullo, madre stonza… Esteban! I was not bullshitting….
- …side of the bet quickly. Which is where Jorge fit in…
- …to hear how it ended. Jorge and Nina wandered in as…
- McQueen and Fangio strode to the center of the garage, with…
- Nina got the shot.
- He introduced Ralph to Fangio and they made their way to the…
- But the Tesla fuses were a huge secret. Knowing what little…
- …they told what they knew. How he desperately wanted to sit…
- “Jorge, the car’s all set,” said Ralph.
- As Jorge walked to his place for a change of clothes,…
- The course was a simple 2.6 mile triangle beginning outside…
- By 10:00 pm, Havana’s finest action lovers were streaming…
- The salon was like the Versailles Hall of Mirrors, overlooking the…
- Nat, William, Gerard and Francois were there by 10pm,…
- Running the book was Lefty — not many others could be trusted…
- They hatched a plan.
- “We have a few guests tonight. How about $100,…
- “Welcome, folks” began Blue Eyes as he grabbed the mic…
- Blue Eyes finished right at 11:30, but Lefty wasn’t…
- “Blue Moon,Key of [G]. Hit it guys.”
- …excitement, and the crowd. Everyone in the room thought themselves…
- …was 11:40 when the song ended. Genetta waved…
- …make it to Frank’s suite. But she did get pictures of…
- “Donde senors y seniorita?”
- Finn had heard the early odds against the Ferrari from William….
- …despite the line of limos. As they piled out of the…
- On a Ferrari keychain, a message was scrawled:
- But then Finn saw that bellboy enter… But wait: this…
- …to him and winked knowingly. He asked her if she ever…
- He moved slowly through the crowd towards Finn and Genetta’s sofa….
- “What will you offer me for another $500k on the Ferarri…
- It hardly mattered. The house always wins.
- The first casualty was almost Vinnie, as McQueen had a rear…
- …that knew it was happening. Police had most of the traffic…
- …about the action in between. Nevertheless, the gardens were packed…
- But the best crowd in Havana had the best view of the…
- Fangio’s and Ralph had a plan even before the race began,…
- As Fangio and Esteban moved up Las Rampas passing Jorge’s Garage on…
- The Crowd at the Nacionale rooftop moved to the south balcony for…
- As the racers barrel down Presidente, Esteban loses half his lead…
- 21-19-17-15-13 Linea… bottom of the hill… 9-Calzada- 5 Downshift! Hard…
- As they pass the [second monument roundabout] they are a…
- …type crowds watching every shift. Even his payday, with $…
- With a two car lead and a few hundred yards to go…
- Fangio drifted to the inside, squeezed the last ¼ on the…
- By the time Esteban reached Vinnie at the finish with his hands…
- Finn and Jorge melted into the crowd, knowing they could collect…
- We can talk now.
- Welcome aboard the Pilar, he began, the best marlin boat…
- You know, blue marlin are aggressive fish, he told his…
- …of 7 to 9 knots. I once caught a 1,000…
- You see friends, in Havana, everyone takes his bite,…
- …I can be of help, started Papa, as he got…
- “So who’s on to you, kid?” Marlon suddenly chimed in…
- Well, there’s always Sal. He’s basically a professional snitch….
- Then there’s Vinnie. He seems to be the captain assigned to…
- And BRAC must know at least as much as Vinnie and Sal…
- Which I must mention the July 26th’s movement. They are so…
- And of course, I have no guarantee that someone else from…
- So how you gonna collect, what, [$4.750…
- Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it…
- Take whatever they offer you. If you clear a million in…
- Collecting near $5,000,000 from the mob….
- Good question, actually. Clearly, this stuff will kill me…
- Jorge was relieved. Nina was someone that maybe he could come…
- How will you teach her how to use the fuses, he…
- Well, I guess that means I stay here to look over…
- Hey, Jorge, he continued, if you’re sending someone back…
- Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. The lines whizzed out the back like a speedboat had…
- …date with Mr. Lansky. The invite was sitting on Finn’s…
- Meyer Lansky was such an un-assuming mobster, he didn’t even have…
- As he turned the corner to the master bedroom, stripped to…
- You know I’m actually from 2017, he finally shared.
- They pulled into Marianao just before sunset and the car was directed…
- In its heyday, American owners brought their horses to race at…
- …Pancho Martin and Gilbert Puentes. The Barrera’s were masters of feeding…
- Follow me. We need some privacy. He said.
- Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us on another sublime…
- Frank and Genetta finished a few duets together, and the band…
- The last of the eight horses in the stakes race were loaded…
- Meyer took advantage of the brief silence before the gates opened and…
- Finn took the long silence to read the body language of his…
- So, you are the time traveller I’ve been hearing about.
- So maybe we can come to an accomodation?
- And they’re into the final turn, Superman passes the mile pole…
- …a meter in every stride. At the finish it is Jazmin…
- It’s done. Lefty will see to the details. Enjoy Havana…
- Women often smoke cigars in Havana.
- They looked out the window toward the park and saw the tell-tale…
- …on the ETECSA wifi immediately and began uploading to Insta and FB…
- “Sal, welcome to 2017; you’ll need an updated set of…
- …as Finn had promised Meyer. But he was rendered nearly powerless…
- Well, Jorge, we’ve ruled out diabetes, fungal infections,…
- …Cuba in the late 50’s. It didn’t take a historian to…
- Nina grasped what Jorge already knew: Havana 1957 was about to…
- They walked over to the drug store for anti-biotics and the normal…
- Helen, they’re after me again. And this time they are…
- …,000,000. Brech had used $2,…
- …eastern-european types kept tailing him. At one point, knowing he…
- …to see to it’s return. Within a few hours, Nina…
- By that time, no one was surprised they were in 1957…
- It works. Whatever the fuck it is, it works,…
- …and make a few recordings. They looked like a spy’s dream…
- …I was waiting? Fidel] Alright look. Sounds like it’s…
- …made people question his authority. So, the J-26 movement may…
- …. Meyer was finished talking. So what’s next for me boss…
- Sal walked through the Riviera lobby and caught a glimpse of Nina…
- So which is worse guys? The mob, the general,…
- …one big distraction from reality. The US probably wants change….
- …to keep the franchise going. The General has the money….
- …to take the gang out. They stopped for a drink at…
- The homes in Vedado, on especially on Calle A-B-C-D and E…
- …] was one of them. Built by a sugar baron for…
- They headed to dinner at La Guarida, a classic Cuban restaurant…
- …he usually was won over. By midnight, the four were…
- …last set- was he there]. Nina caught they eye of the…
- On the master bed was an envelope. Finn left it for…
- The roar of a half dozen [Harleys? Type] turning…
- …needed to earn it back. The man with most of the…
- Get my Note?
- By mid-afternoon, the adventure was set to begin with Steven,…
- …] and onto the Malecon. Genetta and Nina stole a quick…
- The Harley pack rolled westward on the Malecon and over the bridge…
- Finn’s Vinales mansion was not as grand as his home in Vedado…
- …of green tropical stadium below. The home’s most distinctive feature was…
- …the rest of the group. Even Marlon and Steve, adrenaline…
- A Marmon Herrington CTMS-1TBI Dutch Three Man Light Tank came screaming from the…
- Finn, Brech and the near drunk crew in the plantation house…
- I’m betting from the body language, that tank was just stolen…
- And right on cue, another swath of tobacco was plowed under…
- The M3A’s quickly surrounded the Dutch 3 Man in a semi circle…
- He was about to speak when his military hat, encrusted with…
- When Marlon adjusted his glasses, he realized the top of the…
- The stolen Three Man tank was not a surrounded, helpless pawn…
- The next three hours were filled with the orations of an un-invited…
- …Cuban teat for 100 years. Cuba was now a murderous kleptocracy…
- …didn’t come for an hour… they offered the [estancia]…