As Brigid reported earlier this month, Mark Siegel is on tour promoting his new graphic novel Sailor Twain (which I reviewed here on Robot 6). First Second has photos from one of those events, the book's launch party on board an actual boat that sails on the Hudson River, the Clearwater. Most of Sailor Twain takes place aboard a Hudson River steamboat, so the Clearwater was an especially appropriate venue even though it's a sailboat and doesn't run on coal. First Second marketing director Gina Gagliano speculates that "maybe they are all gone because it is not the eighteen hundreds anymore?"

Hit the jump to see the Hudson from the sloop's bow as well as pictures of honest-to-Neptune Sailor Twain wine. And if that's not enough for you, heed the siren call of the First Second blog for even more.