Trombone Man: Ska's Fallen Genius - Barefoot Boy

Barefoot Boy, volume #1 of Trombone Man: Ska's Fallen Genius. A 52-page full colour comic book printed on 130 GSM paper. 

Trombone Man: Ska's Fallen Genius is a comic book series project started as a crowdfunding campaign in 2022 materialized in 2024, written/created by Adam Reeves and illustrated by Costantinos Pissourios (AKA Versioncos). 

It tells the story of Jamaican trombonist Don Drummond who was a member of pioneering ska band the Skatalites during the early 1960s.  A supremely gifted and hugely influential musican, Drummond unfortunately suffered from severe mental health issues which led him to take the life of his lover, dancer Margarita Mahfood, spending the rest of his life in a mental asylum as a consequence. 

The comic book series will get to the heart of his story and reveal the truth behind Don and Margarita's lives and the tragedy that befell them. Adapted with kind permission from the 2013 biography Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist by Heather Augustyn, 

Trombone Man: Ska's Fallen Genius is a Kickstarter crowdfunded project, now available.