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Joel

Passion's Hostage

About Me

www.joelcarroll.com

My Interests

Drawing monsters, robot, and pretty girls. Playing, designing, and creating video games. Reading comics and devouring information. And puppies.

I'd like to meet:

New, exciting people that will peel grapes for me, and fan me with palm fronds. People that would tell me when I'm pretty.

Music:

I dig Sugar, The 88, Postal Service, The Shins, The Strokes, Grandaddy, United States of Electronica, Daft Punk, Beastie Boys, The Long Winters, The Pixies, The Pillows....I'm sure I could keep going all day

Movies:

Star Wars, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, Godzilla, Harry Potter, The Incredibles, Amelie, Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, Waiting for Guffman and all of the Christopher Guest fakeumentaries, Napoleon Dynamite, Tarantino, Kevin Smith, ect.

Television:

Lost....um.....lots of those HBO shows: Sopranos, Six Feet Under, ect. Spaced, The Young Ones, French & Saunders. Tons of japanese stuff.

Books:

Anything by David Sedaris, Joe Haldeman, PKD, Lovecraft, Rowling. Tons and tons of manga titles.

Heroes:

Alex Toth, Jaime Hernandez, Claire Wendling, Masamune Shirow, Howard Chaykin, Katsuya Terada, Nirasawa, Mike Mignola....the list goes on and on.

My Blog

VOICE OF THE REPUBLIC

Hey, kids....got sick. Still a little sick...Way behind on crap, but I told you I'd let you in on the podcast particulars!That's right, me, Ed, and Mikey (no website) are doing up a Star Wars themed p...
Posted by Joel on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:31:00 PST

Hooked Horror

Hey, kids....drew this a couple weeks back.Wanted to contribute to the incredibly fun LiveJournal group MonsterManual, so I drew up a Hooked Horror from D&D.Probably haven't drawn one of these guy...
Posted by Joel on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:49:00 PST

Girls! (only slightly NSFW)

Drew up these girls based on a pose template provided by J.Bone.Here's the template:Mike Cho had done a set based on the template, as well as starting a thread over on the Drawing Board found HEREDo u...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:19:00 PST

Star War'sin....

Hey, kids....hope you had a great holiday!I got lots of art and news to share over the next few weeks, as we hurtle towards 2007!I had high hopes for '06, and while tons of great things happened, I'm ...
Posted by Joel on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:37:00 PST

Monster Girls....

Was admiring Jen Wang's beatiful MONSTER SEX GIRLS  last week, and ended up sketching a couple while in a meeting at work...Bill Mudron also did up some awesome monster girls over HERE!__________...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:29:00 PST

Happy Halloween!


Posted by Joel on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:58:00 PST

Batgirl Time Again?

So, why am I hearing about this second hand? Harrr-umph!I guess I'm not online enough nowadays...So, here, peeps of the intarweb!A webcam! I'll be on most weekday evenings around 10pm or 11pm to 12am!...
Posted by Joel on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:58:00 PST

Big Time Fun Hey

Hey, kids....daaamn.I totally let a month or two get out from under me....What have I been up to? Unfortunately, not drawing much...well, I am, but nothing of the personal sort.I'll get to that in a m...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:32:00 PST

Marshal Law!

Was doodling this guy last Thursday at the get-together....finished him up during a meeting Friday morning:Also posted it over in Cameron Stewart's Marshal Law thread in the Drawing Board Superheroes...
Posted by Joel on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:08:00 PST

Happy Birthday to Amy!

I don't know about you kids, but last week went by way too quick, was way too full of busy-busy crap, and just all-around icky.That said, this week is gonna ROCK!And we will start off this week with a...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:59:00 PST