Ever wondered what it’s like to go completely off the map of sanity and sense? Here’s your ticket.

GUATEMALA
High Life, Low Life

Steven Froelich doesn’t just stumble into trouble: he hunts it down, courting chaos and rendering every misadventure hilariously unforgettable.

Guatemala: High Life, Low Life inaugurates a series that will chronicle Froelich’s escapades in Belize, Nicaragua, Colombia, Mexico and Cuba.

After a night behind bars in Miami, Froelich lands in Guatemala City. Riotous road trips follow, with our man perpetually wasted on booze and cocaine but fuelled by a passionate curiosity about people from all walks of life.

His guide is Antonio, a streetwise hotel concierge who also has substance-abuse issues; together, they journey to colonial Antigua, the shores of Lake Atitlán, the beaches of Monterrico and to Antonio’s home village, a poor, proud place where gringos are deeply suspect.

Next, Froelich strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anabella, a glamorous, garrulous, middle-aged woman, and mooches a stay in her elite, tank-guarded gated community.

Unapologetically raw and darkly funny, Froelich explores the absurdities of the human condition, Guatemala-style. Ever wondered what it’s like to go completely off the map of sanity and sense? Here’s your ticket.

Features seventeen full-colour illustrations by Froelich’s collaborator Oscar Zárate.

BELIZE
Friends & Scammers

He’s back! The Man Without a Plan lands in Belize, a country about which he knows nada. But he quickly amasses an array of new friends – some of whom can even match his penchant for being in a near-constant buzz from industrial-quantity drugs and drink.

As ever, the characters with whom Steven ingratiates himself become his surrogate (dysfunctional) family. But Tracey, Devonais, Ask Bobby!, Valentino and a pack of kids led by the feral Molokai soon have Steven suspecting that his cheerfully transactional relationships are, in fact, ensnaring him in a web of scams. Will he be left for broke, stranded in this shabby paradise? Is his paranoia justifiable, or the result of continuous cocaine use? His response is to embark with the gang on a road trip along the coast, taking in shantytowns, hotels, beaches and, at a low ebb, jail.

Coarse, irresponsible and wilfully uninformed, Froelich is nevertheless observant and caring. Belize is about the ways in which chaotic, complex human beings find community, no matter where they’re from or where they’re headed.

Features twelve full-colour illustrations by Froelich’s collaborator Oscar Zárate.