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Brian Carroll
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Filmmaker, cartoonist, and art director.
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ART CETERA 🎨🧑‍🎨🖌️ (M/W/F+Bonus Sunday)
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TWO PARTY OPERA 🇺🇸🏛️🗽(Sporadic)
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I'm not a member of the theatre company, nor did I direct this production (my official title is Scenic and Projection Designer), so I'd imagine I have much more liberty to be honest here. Bad reviews are fine, but they should review in good faith and be about the actual show
Three panel comic featuring an eagle person. This is the Critic. Panel 1: The critic flies through the air and says "I once saw a child enjoy the most dreadful piece of trash. The idiot. One-star behavior. Panel 2: The critic is inside a movie theatre and says "Yes, I am a Critic. And I know what you're going to say—trust me, I've heard 'em all." Panel 3: While doing air quotes, the critic says "Seen any movies lately? Heard of a book? Ever kick a painting?!"
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Coriolanus opens this week! Get your tickets- we’re all really proud of this one: www.eventbrite.com/e/coriolanus...
Poster for The Porters of Hellsgate production of Coriolanus featuring Michelle Grey as Caius Marcius Coriolanus. Directed by L. Stephanie Tait and Produced for the Porters of Hellsgate by Sheryl Scott. November 6-23, 2025. 11031 Camarillo St. North Hollywood.
November 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Art Cetera Sunday 44: Building a Prison USB Thumb Drive.

It's like a Popular Mechanics, but I made it all up
#comic #usb #popularmechanics
One panel comic illustration showing a diagram of a USB thumb drive, made from stuff lying around. Caption says "Building a prison USB thumb drive." With the following callouts: 1. Voltaic pile battery (stack until it works) — copper penny (cathode), cardboard, dipped in salt water, Zinc washer (anode). 2. Enclosure made from toothbrush plastic. 3. Razor bade USB connector. 4. Staple circuitry wiring. 5. Read/write paperclip 6: Magnetic storage (folded up fridge magnet) 7. Interface controller. In the corner, Roachmary asks Imogene "How did you program the controller?" Imogene says "Are you familiar with hand-poke tattoos?"
October 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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This Area is Being Recorded
#comics #comics #comics
Three panel comic inside the prison. Panel 1: A security camera keeps watch. Panel 2: Imogene's eyes peak from the bottom of the frame, watching the camera's movements as it oscillates to the other side. Panel 3: Two hands enter frame and tear the camera off the wall. "BZZT"
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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The Zaslav Origin Story. This is where it all began, folks.
#comics #warnerbrosdiscoveryceodavidzaslav
Three panel comic featuring Client, a multi-head emoji business person, and David Zaslav, the warden of Artcatraz Island Prison. Panel 1: Client says "Wow, Mr. Zaslav. How did you get so good at illing movies and TV shows?" Zaslav says "Ah. My origin story." Panel 2: Flashback with the caption "It all started when I was seven-years-old." The scene depicts a child version of Zaslav—he's holding a new 1967 Troll doll, he wears little boy suspenders and a pinwheel beanie hat. The TV says "Gilligan's Island is Canceled" Panel 3: Back in modern day, the Client says "They survived the storm but were no match for the media executive." Zaslav says "My first taste of unstoppable power!"
October 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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October 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Art Cetera Sunday 43: Back to Artcatraz
One panel comic illustration of the warden Zaslav's head. His profile resembles a prison that Malaprop, the artist, is locked up inside. The caption says "And now... Back to Artcatraz."
October 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Of course my new comics get here on the one day it rains! Luckily, the box took most of the brunt so I get to enjoy a cozy rainy reading day.
Stack of new graphic novels (Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit, No Rules Tonight, and Punk Rock Karaoke) on top of the slightly damp box it was shipped in
October 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Hey hey #portfolioday

My name is Brian Carroll and I am a cartoonist and filmmaker. Looking for new opportunities in both, buuuuuuut if anyone has a weird or interesting comic project that needs an artist, I'd be interested in a collaboration to stretch my legs a little.

Check it: classicbri.com
Three panel comic in the art studio. Panel 1: Litchfield walks by Rookie's work station when Rookie stops him to ask, "Litchfield, how does an artist deal with failure?" Panel 2: Litchfield bursts out "FAILURE?! I don't even know the meaning of the word!" Panel 3: A beat later. Litchfield is reading out of a dictionary. "Interesting. No no. I would not do well with that." My illustration of Missy Elliott that combines many visual elements from her “Work It” video (her outfit, bees, white gloves holding water and phones, the boombox, the set, etc) A still from my looping animation “Go Go Goldfish.” Graphic depictions of goldfish are arranged in a 3D array under the water surface. The jaws of a beast can be seen in the shadowy depths. Screenshot from an animation I made for CNN’s “The 2010s” about the Cambridge Analytica scandal showing a shadowy smartphone faced ghoul dropping a human-shaped device. Dollar signs, likes, and data pour out of the "phone."
October 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Screenshot from Pulp Fiction where John Travolta’s character says what a Quarter Pounder with Cheese is in England, but instead of the caption “Royale with Cheese,” it says “Drop Scones?”
October 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Plan B
Three panel comic of a local critic interviewing Litchfield in front of a live audience. The critic happens to be an eagle person. Panel 1: The critic asks "If you weren't an artist, what would you be?" Panel 2: Litchfield thinks about it hard, "hmmmm...." Panel 3: Litchfield says "I would dedicate my life to the destruction of the Las Vegas Sphere."
October 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Wow, good tip facebook
Screenshot of my Facebook notifications for one of my comics where it’s telling me if spent $10, I can get up to ZERO more reach
October 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Sometimes I get bogged down with the single-celled problems.

#comics #webcomics #microbiology
Six panel comic featuring Kate and Aux, outside somewhere. Panel 1: Kate says: "Your problem is you don't have a life outside your fears." Panel 2: "You think happiness is a reward for how well you can keep your misery hidden." Panel 3: Kate keeps going "But you're too old to still believe anxiety is a valid excuse for inaction. Lock in, dude." Panel 4: Kate, yet still, "you can't stop for every single-celled problem and then get mad you haven't walked a mile!" Panel 5: Aux yells out "Single-celled?!" Panel 6: "All I said was: I know too much about amoebas and not enough about how to avoid one!"
October 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Is it too late to achieve your life goal?
#comic #artcetera #cactus
October 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Sunday 42: Main Character Energy
Nine panel comic featuing Aux, a cactus person. They're alone. Panel 1: "This is good." Panel 2: "Getting to be the focus." Panel 3: "Just feels right." Panel 4: "Main character energy, yes!" Panel 5: "I deserve this." Panel 6: "—to exist with purpose." Panel 7: "Classic protag? Or am I more the anti-hero type?" Panel 8: Kate is nearby. Aux asks her, "What do you think, Kate?" Panel 9: Kate says "I don't think I'm your audience."
October 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Cone of Uncertainty
MissingTropics 100/108
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Three panel comic showing a giant hurricane covering the entire state of Florida. In the last panel, a lone voice is heard, 'You get used to it'
October 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Art Cetera Sunday 41

#comic #sunday
One panel comic illustration of Malaprop sharpening giant pencils and Nickels using one of the giant pencil shavings as a glider.
September 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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After nine years, I think I finally have a Zachary Taylor design I like (although, I always like them at first).
Two poses of my Zachary Taylor character from Two Party Opera. They both carry double guns, but the one on the left is yelling and firing them.
September 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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992: Antagonista
Three panel comic at Mt. Vernon. Zachary Taylor is in the background, firing guns, and yelling "Santa Ann-tifa! Santa Ann-tifa! Santa An-tifa!" General Santa Anna and George Washington watch on. Panel 1: Santa Anna says "He's obsessed with me. He's become afraid of cities. It's not healthy." Washington says "you antagonize him." Panel 2: Santa Ann says "It's his media diet. Zachary Taylor is too deep inside his anti-Santa Anna bubble." Washington points to Santa Anna's wardrobe, "if you don't antagonize him, then what are you doing here? In all your regalia." Panel 3: Santa Anna puts on a black hoodie and mask with antifa logos. "¡Pardóname! How's this? Casual enough?" Washington says "You antagonize him!"
September 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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991: Sick, Dangerous, Radical Left Disaster
Four panel comic at Mt. Vernon. George Washington talks to Zachary Taylor on the front lawn. Panel 1: Washington: "What's with the guns, Zachary Taylor?" Taylor: "You know antifa? That 'sick, dangerous, radical left disaster?'" Panel 2: Taylor: It's now been designated a major terrorist organization. So I'm going after him." Washington: "Him?" Panel 3: Washington thinks and says "Oh no. Don't tell me—" Panel 4: Taylor fires his guns wildly and screams "General Santa Ann-tifa!"
September 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Two Party Opera 991: I Got Jumped by the FCC Chair
Four panel comic outside the barricades of the White House. James Madison runs to help a guy with a broken TV for a head. Panel 1: Madison: "Dear Sir! Media person! Are you injured? Who did this to you?" TV Media: "Help me, James Madison! My first amendment rights are being infringed! I got jumped by the FCC Chair!" Panel 2: Madison flips out and says "What?! That is against the rules!" Panel 3: TV Media: "They said next time I speak up, they'll beat me to death with my revoked broadcast license!" Madison: "Though, this could be how the levers of government express itself." Panel 4: TV Media: "I never did consider the government's first amendment right to kick the (bleep) ouf of me." Madison, while reading over the Constitution says "Legally, it's not censorship as long as it's also extortion."
September 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Two Party Opera 990: The Crack Down
One panel comic showing a bunch of ICE agents in front of the Jefferson Memorial. The first one is holding John Adams down with his boot against the back of the containment van. John Adams yells "Take your boot off my face, you louse! I'm a citizen! From the greaat commonwealth of Massachusetts!" The second ICE agent is watching and says "We'll decide who's American, 'Juan Adams'." Two other agents are keeping Thomas Jefferson back. The one pointing his gun says "Go about your business. Pretend we're not here." Another says "Yeah, go on, tell your little jokes. Easy on the French stuff." Thomas Jefferson says "In his defense, the joke was really more about Alexander Hamilton than Charlie Kirk."
September 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Thank you all for meeting me in this room-sized replica of my own head.
Three panel comic featuring Litchfield, the artist, and some of his crew, Pinch, Nickels, and Rookie, inside a giant replica of his head. Panel 1: Litchfield says "Thank you all for meeting me in this room-sized replica of my own head." Panel 2: Litchfield continues "I'm so sorry for the mess. I haven't had a chance to clean!" Pinch says "Oh, this is nothing." Panel 3: Pinch says "I can't even remember the last time I cleaned my room-sized replica head."
September 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Supersize Me
Three panel comic featuring Litchfield, the artist, wearing an even bigger head of himself. Panel 1: Litchfield says "Sometimes, it's enough to be yourself." Panel 2: Litchfield tries to drink his coffee, with some trouble. "Sometimes, it's not." Panel 3: Litchfield is still awkwardly trying to drink the coffee. "Sometimes, you need to be yourseld with a giant head."
September 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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We’ll decide who’s American, “Juan Adams.”
Screenshot of an in-progress Two Party Opera panel of President John Adams getting arrested by ICE
September 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM