Unique travel cartoons give Traveling Boy another offbeat approach to travel
THIS WEEK IN TRAVELING BOY: 
A special bridge in Holland by John Clayton 
Beverly Cohn's sizzling interview with the iconic Pat Boone 
Eric and Nancy Anderson's tour of Northern Italy 
Corinna Lothar's return to her former hometown of San Francisco Today

Burbank, October 12, 2010 --- “When we decided to create the travel website Traveling Boy,”  said Ed 
Boitano, one of the sites’ co-founders, “we wanted it to be unique in variety of ways. One of those, 
and one that we felt very strongly about, was the inclusion of a regular series of travel related 
cartoons. If you're new to our website, I urge you to click on our website (www.travelingboy.com).”
Boitano said that the artist behind the drawings is also his co-founder of TBoy, Raoul Pascual. "It seems 
incredible that such a creative fellow as Raoul also spent time as a miner, of all things. Raoul loved 
comic books as a child. He had a collection of Batman, Superman, Flash, Spiderman and Harvey comics 
(if only he had preserved those comic books, he would be so much richer today). He was labeled the 
artist of the family and that was good and bad. Good for the ego, but bad for he was always given the 
task to draw the family pictures, Christmas cards, Birthday cards. It was so bad that one Christmas he 
was hoping to get lots of toys but instead everyone gave him something that had to do with art: 
paints, brushes, pencils, sketch books. By the time he was a teenager he was fascinated with the 
cartoons in MAD Magazine, especially by the movie and TV parodies by Mort Drucker. Raoul spent 
countless hours mimicking that style of caricature. That was the beginning of his career in art. From 
there he has branched out into art direction, stage design, political cartoons, corporate ID's, digital art 
and flash animation." Boitano added, that Pascual is, in addition, the techno wizard responsible for 
putting T-Boy on the web.
As important as the drawings in any cartoon are, Boitano said that it is especially important to have 
someone who is not only “on the same page” as Pascual, “but is a talented writer who knows the 
equally clever words to put under those cartoons." Which is where Terry Cassel comes in. "Terry and I 
met years ago," said Boitano, "when we were assigned to work together, coincidentally, on a travel 
marketing project. Since then we’ve stayed in touch, periodically helping each other out on various 
entrepreneurial pursuits. Cassel writes about travel, sports, and politics, among other things, and 
Traveling Boy seemed like a perfect fit for his rascally, irreverent nature. Raoul and Terry, who met at a 
design firm where Raoul labored briefly, collaborated on another cartoon strip for a few years before 
they decided to give Traveling Boy their unique quirky take on things."
The T-Boy website is, as one recent reader noted, “decidedly different from most of the offerings on 
the web, because it gives you new ideas about lots of well known places with an entirely different 
point of view."
In keeping with that philosophy, Boitano pointed out favorite past blogs from the T-Boy archives:
Colorful, Captivating, Charming China! 
Christmas In Zurich 
A Search for Hygge in Copenhagen| 
The Ballad of Dick & Liz
The concept of Traveling Boy is best expressed in its Mission Statement that notes “our approach to 
travel is a personal and very subjective way of writing about destinations and travel themes. To do 
this,” says Boitano, “we have dozens of talented journalists and photographers who give their own 
unique perspective on things, people and places around the world. That’s why we call Traveling Boy 
‘Discovering Roads Less Traveled.’"