This is an old one. like, the Oldest. I did it years and years and years ago. Think of it as the Ceolacanth to Quickies’s Mermaids.

My Stylus has died, so new stuff? You just adjust your britches until they are comfortable enough for you to wait. For new material.

For now, just think about progress, growth, and life. And piranhas.

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So, I’m Finishing up some new illostration work, which I shall be posting shortly.

But now for somthing completely different. Many of you have not seen this wood burn I did, representing Silent Night, Deadly Night, in the days of you. Ah, I’d call it two years old as well. And yes, it’s completely un seasonable. Deal with it.

Also, HINT. It is going to be a prop in a very exciting video show I’m brewing with my bros. Funny stuff, Trust.

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hola amigos. It’s been a while while I rapped at you. So, Im posting old things! Maybe you have yet to seen them! So, here’s oldie but goodie number 1.

May I name drop? A certain, and reputedly dreamy, Mr. Gurewitch, walked off with a print of this at Stumptown. So, you know it’s quality.

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yeah, do you get it? Eh, eh?

this is one where I actually rendered the setting more than the characters. Will wonders never cease.

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Oh, I’m late on posting these. This Is from Opening night of the TMCM Opera. I snuck back stage and took photos. I’m a real tourist.

Did I mention I co wrote the 2nd act? I’m now a card carrying librettist. I don’t go and buy a ball gown for no reason, ya see.

Stacey Murdock and Daniel McLaughlin in all their Deserved Afterglow , when I peeped them with my peepers.

Murdock and Main mugging. Can you find the Creeper?

Matt Dolphin is a man about town. Fresh off of chewing the scenery!

Mars needs Coffee. What is Coffee?

I caught Jasmine Presson asfter she took off her beehive! Pity. We took this photo with my practiced “Myspace arm”

The man behind the music. The blurry, non picture liking, Daniel Steven Crafts. His songs stay stuck in my head.

Good Old Wheeler Dealer. This squinty pic is the only one I have of you in a suit coat.

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Because I’m a high minded political

Next: I’m drawing Muhammad. As a talking vagina. Because I want to get beheaded.

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Ive graduated to 3 panels. Next time, I’ll finish my hundred page comic.

(yeah right)

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aw geeze, I’m off to my Opera opening! Here’s a new toon for yas!

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oh Holdens. This is when we did the cartoon cavalcade. That was a debacle, glorious debacle.

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Are you familiar with the total Vom . com, and our dear Ractalfece? If not, but you read all this junk, John and Luke Holden may very well rock you. John’s the mike man, Luke, the drawer. Together, power sibs activate!

So, this Totes Vom Episode deals with a stumptown fest of yore. 2 years past, nothing lasts. (thats a TMCM opera lyric to get you pumped for the sequel) Anyhow, if you are interested in the Holdens and I, you may squeal at this brief crossover. I’m in the Elevator looking harrid and stressed, and not getting what kind of footage John is looking for. (We were in a hurry)

Episode 26: Stumptown Comics Fest 2006

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Oh dear, my favorite Internette is hanging up his hat. Well, at least not putting it on everyday? No, he always wears that stupid hat. Joesph William Bergin the 3rd is retiring from The Daily Grind. The grind he has spent 3 years in, making a comic every weekday. Dang is right.

He did so good! I know he’ll have more time to do more awesome comics now, read a book, take a hike, and play with his wiener… dog. But he will be missed! Honestly, when I met this man I was in awe from getting to meet such an honest to gosh artist, and I am very thankful for having gotten to learn so much from him. He is a cartoonist through and through.

He made me laff, he me made me cry? well, not in his dailys but you get the idea.

Joe, You were good. Now be even better, you freakin Ink Stud. Ker Sigh!

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Too Much Carolyn Main. Nope, too much Coffee man! I’m getting ready for the Opera, which is going to be a total hot mess. You really have to go. Buy tickets, and see art, and everybody will be very impressed with you. I know you live in Portland, but once in a while you actually have to go see a unique art, not just a 3$ movie at a pub. I swear, legitimate theater is important. I implore you to be a cultured member of the community, you freaking hick.

(Psst, tickets are cheaper at the box office, f micket taster)

Opening night isApril 4th at Brunish Hall in Portland, Oregon with the Too Much Coffee Man Opera Sequel (the Refill). Tickets on sale now! Hey, big spender.

• On the web at www.ticketmaster.com
• By phone at 503-224-4400

I co-wrote the second act along with the enduring Shannon Wheeler, which , yes, deals with the universal problems of relationships gradually corroding your own sense of self, stalking the lovely lady who doesn’t know if you exist, deceit upon one’s character, jealousy, becoming jacked up on caffeine, murdering a rival, and even the helplessness of god. Not that I wrote any of that from personal experience. But I know, is this is a unique and singular performance, and all the players are brilliant. Trueness, you’ll want to say you saw it when.

We all made Stacey Murdock interact and harass people at the Saturday Market. Here is a photo I mugged with his mugged mug. Oh yes I did just say that.

That eyebrow is his money maker. The whole cast, including lovely Jasmine Presson, as the ambitious and harried Barista, swanky Matt Dolphin, the creeper peeper Espresso guy, are also very well equipped in the Eyebrow department. New comer Daniel McLuaghlin is sure to step up to the plate as the waring Martin and bring his big voice to the party for the second act. As someone who is pleased if they sing a simple Karaoke song mostly competently, I am in awe of the skilled voices these kids (full grown adults) belt out.

Buy your tickets NOW, because this thing sold out last last time, and you don’t want to be left in the dust.

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This is a new one, SFW, even. Show it to your kids, I’m being nice.

Would a carrot on a fishing pole be too obvious? Actually, sausage would be a better doggy goal. But, maybe the pug just wants to fly. I think she may be doing it for doings sake, which you would believe if you knew ms Pompoonette.

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3 posts in a day. I’m between assignments, apparently. Okay, now it’s back to hard work project number 1. but first, more cheese cake.

I’ve had this idea since high school, and now I can draw it well enough.

Dreams do come true.

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aw, the sex jokes. Another one, for you!

I colored this one how I’d like a cupcake to look, that then I get to eat. FYI!!!

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This is a rough draft of the very exicitng Stumptown awards Ceremony and Comic Arts Battle.

(ahem , reigning champ, ahem)

Oh, and by the way, free beer, awesome drawings, and I promise to wear the evening gown equivalent of a disco ball. It’s surprisingly Dishy.
You better be pretty much there or square. Rhombuses need not apply.

Awards Ceremony at Cosmic Monkey Comics: 5335 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland OR, 97213, April 27th

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Ta da! been thinking about color, and boning up on technique. Much like our wizzarding friend here.

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and in case you were wondering, this is the line work. Thinking about color…..

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Inspired by a mister Gene Wilder

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I had been considering going into tattooing for a living. Later on, I discovered that I liked drawing on paper better than stabbing into skin, although it was a close race. So, I’ve kept on with the whole cartoons/animations/comics/illustrations/comedy/libretto kinda career, it’s still fun to design tattoo flash. Here are the one’s I’ve come up with so far. We’ve got the reverse mermaid, pretty girls, pug dogs, and chow. The ush.
If any of these appeal to you, dear reader, please, ink it up. You may email me at carolynmain@gmail.com, and I can send you the art work in line and color layers. I only ask for a photo to remember your skin by, once it is permanently permeated from perforations.

The Pizza one is a memorandum for a kitty. My gal pal actually got that stabbed into her, for keeps. I’ll see if I can fish out a photo of that one day.

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I fell in love with The Mighty Boosh. They make this new kind of funny. They made me want to be the moon. So I was for a while. Sorry to all the actual British people if you hate my accent… but I’m not actually sorry though.

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This is another time I was the moon.

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So, I am an alumni of the illustrious Renegade Animation Studios, which has (had?) an office here in Portland. While I was doing top secret video game animation, most of our office was working on the recently debuted MR Men Show. I got to see the weekly shots come out, parceled gently out over the real time it takes to animate. I say that the show is absolutely adorable. Now, I know you may think that they bribed me with their bagels, cream cheese, and coffees, but, no I am not so easily bought. Bagels only rent me. I was excited to see how strong and ridiculous each character is, and how the whole show is premised on every mr man and little miss just plain being ill suited for their job. None of them will ever get along, for a Mr Anal Retention can never be comfortable around a Mr Crusty Hippy. That doesn’t stop them from going on road trips to the beach, however.

The charecters tend to either have a regional accent, or be based off an old Hollwood type. I especially fell for Mr. Scatterbrain, who’s based off Ed Wynn, the old man floating around his tea party in Mary Poppins. He brings the party.

Now, there’s some controversy surrounding the Mister Rude character. Who is unabashedly FRENCH. I am in support of a big, publicity inducing fight! According to a source at the French Embassy in London ” this kind of humor won’t go any distance toward easing a centuries-old rivalry between the two nations”. Well, maybe not. But with me, the proof is always in the pudding. So it matters if it’s funny.

Bare in mind that, I , in fact, have French heritage. That, and a bit o the Irish is how I maintain my honky white visage. So in celebration for Cartoony Racial Stereotypes that I personally represent in my daily duties, I’ve drawn a stunning portrait of Mr Rude, and a New Character I’d like to one day introduce into the men cannon. I’ll let you know when I see a contract.

Here’s Mr Rude, being just a little bit ruder.

And here’s the character I propose, a new man, named Mr Tipsy. He has a heavy brogue.

here’s a link to a further Article:

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test

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What the hell was this old arcade game called? This was a question I had on my mind for a long time. So when the Onion’s AV club started encouraging hapless schmucks like me to recall our collectively misspent youth I had a drawing I’d done from memory ready to send in. Here, the AV club nicely answered my inquest, which, yes, is and was extremely important. You’ll have to scroll down the page a little after you link.

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This is a crazy time. I work hard, I play hard, I draw hard. I dominate the mike with my mad free style in the 2nd half of this, accompanied by the lovely Lilli Carre. I am mean to Jeremy Tinder. This is how you fight.

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Email: carolynmain at gmail dot com

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Still getting started on this new site - good stuff will be here soon.

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