#mike mccain

[gebo4482]

Blue Eye Samurai by Mike McCain

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[thecollectibles]

Art by Mike McCain

[le-loup-et-lion]

Do You Hear the People Sing

by Mike McCain

[tensecondstomidnight]

highlights from my bcb art meme. i made a whole comic for it so go give it a look

[the-gershomite]

Looney Tunes #121 -February 2005-

"The Right Stink"

writer: Jesse McCain

penciler: Leo Batic

inker: Horacio Ottolini

Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher

colorist: Dave Tanguay

"Present Tense"

script: Earl Kress

pencils & ink: Mike Decarlo

colors: Dave Tanguay

letters: Nick J. Napolitano

"Sweep Stakes"

script: Sholly Fisch

pencils: Walter Carzon

inks: Ruben Torreiro

colors: Dave Tanguay

letters: Ken Lopez

[karatekels]

TIG Movie Night!

Hi everyone! Based on your votes, we will be having our Thomas Ian Griffith movie marathon on Saturday, March 16th starting at around 7pm PST and going until one of us dies or something.

I have made a poll on Slido that lets you pick your top 3 favourite TIG movies, and you have until end of day next Sunday (March 10th) to cast your votes. We'll watch them in order of popularity - I'm imagining at least 3, but who knows how many we'll get to?

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT VOTING: The way this poll works is that your first choice will get 3 points, your second 2 points, and your third 1 point, so keep that in mind when you're plotting!

Sorry if your favourite movie isn't available as an option (unlikely, we have 14 to choose from!) - this is a list of the movies that @virgo-mess and I have been able to track down. If you have something you want to add to our Google Drive folder (dubbed "The Cult of TIG"), feel free to shoot us a message!

I'm SO excited to be doing this with you guys! Please reblog and keep the notes coming so we can spread the word. I'm going to be troubleshooting the best ways to do this thing with Virgo over the next little bit (thank you so much btw! <3), but as of right now the plan is to use Zoom for our call, so if you don't have an account, take the next couple weeks to get one!

Gratuitous TIG pictures to promote the event (most of which are courtesy of @mrgriffiths - thanks!):

[clutchpowers]

A redraw of the 5th anniversary piece that started the silly tradition of drawing something up until the big 10th anni!! I know I'm super but it's still their year and that's all that matters 🎉

[uniwolfcorn]

🎉Happy Anderson Day, Everyone!~🎉

As a way to celebrate, I made my favorite characters from each Gerry Anderson show I've watched into Bluey dogs with a picrew!~

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

Mike Mercury (Supercar)

Dr. Venus (Fireball XL5)

Phones Lee Sheridan (Stingray)

Alan Tracy (Thunderbirds)

Lieutenant Green/Seymour Griffiths (Captain Scarlet. There isn't any green fur, so I had to improvise)

Joe McCain (Joe 90)

Father Urwin (Secret Service)

Tiger Ninestein (Terrahawks. Btw don't judge me I like him okay XD)

Sam Scott (Firestorm)

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

💕Tagging: @dragonoffantasyandreality, @alexthefly, @etrnlvoid, @n-chu4ever, @teapotteringabout, @mothmannerly, @avengedbiologist, @tikatu, @katblu42, @gumnut-logic, @the-original-sineater, @greywake, @llamawrites, @knyee, @heckincuddlies, @twistedoliver, @jacksonstarkiller, @skymaiden32, @willow-salix, @dreamycloud, @ak47stylegirl, @weathergirl8, @godsliltippy, @mrmustachious, @squiddokiddo, @thunderbirbthor, @gaviiadastra, @psychoseal, @chenria, @tsarinatorment, @janetm74, @louthestarspeaker, @malignedangel, @crunchyluigi💕

Thank you to all Thunderfam/Anderfam for all the amazing, creative content you all share❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷💖🖤🤎🩶🤍🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌟

[false-idol-comic]

Author’s Notes: And with this, we are DONE! WE HAVE DID IT! GET ON YOUR FEET, BECAUSE WE. ARE. LEAVING!  CHAPTER 4 IS IN THE BOOKS!  WOO!  Not gonna lie, this chapter has been one of the best chapters I’ve writtten so far including scenes in January. It was really nice to be able to play around and toy with some actual romantic drama, and getting way more out of these scenes and especially these characters than I initially thought. The concept of this chapter was honestly not as deep as it ended up becoming, but part of that was due to me falling in love with the characters of Dan, Ash, and Sandy, and exploring the different angles and really playing with the chemistry of the three (or at least, Ash and Dan).  It’s no wonder that this chapter wound up almost meeting the page count of Chapter 2 with being 41 total pages long, only 5 pages less than Chapter 2.  Which was surprising since it’s a lot less ambitious as Chapter 2, but as we have seen it has a LOT more to say.  

That being said though, as it’s been a very long chapter and I think we deserve a little break...

an intermission if you will~

[gebo4482]

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

Artsit: Mike McCain / Aymeric Kevin / Dean Gordon

[spiderverseconceptart]

Concept art and color keys for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse by Mike McCain ( 1, 2.)

[charon-cries]

Hiya! Hope this message finds u well :3 I absolutely love your art; found you from insta! Quick question also; I’m not sure if you’ve answered this before, but which brushes do you use for ur digital art? I love the textures they’re so crunchy (endearing)!! Have a lovely day!! :D

hello!! here's a little brush tour ft. this half rendered martin.

also, a great app for ipad artists who really want to dig into texture is art set 4. i swear by it and i've been using it for about two years. none of my more recent art uses it, but that's just because i'm experimenting with my process rn

so here's a list of my most used brushes lately, and there will be links to all of them at the bottom of this post.

the two labeled "custom pencil" are both my own personal modified pencils (both sourced from the 6b pencil) but the narinder pencil and the vanilla 6b pencil are both very similar to them. i use these two for sketching and flat color specifically, and if you do specifically want these two brushes then i'd be happy to upload them somewhere for you to download, but they're not really necessary for texture

i also use G&B halftone brushes sometimes! but i greatly prefer the RSCO sample pack, and i cannot find the link to the G&B brushes no matter how hard i google, and pretty much any halftone brush set will do the same job

and here's what they look like in practice!

(i like to set these halftones to color burn. color burn is my most used blending mode, even for shading)

and then i hit "copy all," paste, and duplicate it. so you should have two layers of just your entire canvas. then import a paper texture

i'm partial to the set i'll link down below, my favorite is #5. you should absolutely check out the rest of the free texture packs on their website if you're wanting to diversify your texture process btw, all of their stuff is fantastic.

to use that texture, your layers should look like this!

on the layer set to the linear burn, i also like to go into the adjustments menu and bump up the brightness until all of the colors are at similar values to what they were before. and the normal layer on top is just to control the intensity/opacity of the paper texture!

after all of that, sometimes i'll go in with brushes like MM rake follow, or more from COFE's weird pencils, on top of all of those layers for finishing touches.

definitely play around with it, try new free brushes all of the time (i heavily recommended subscribing to Manero. they have a lot of free stuff and it's all fantastic) and see what works for you <3

here are the links to the brushes in this post, as well as some extras! some of them are paid and some of them are completely free. + it wasn't mentioned here, but i use the tatyworks linen fabric brush for blending! for any of the paid brushes, i'll try to link some free alternatives

paid brushes:

alternatives to paid brushes:

free brushes:

extra goodies:

[agentchimendez]

Sorry for the delay! It's because y'all didn't just write down a single character's name for the written sections like I so desperately asked!

Introducing the results of the 2023 Bittersweet Candy Poll! This was polled back in November-December of 2023, and here are the results of people's favorites, least favorites, most controversial/mixed opinions, and the one with the least opinions!

Click here for 2022's results and here for 2021's. Click the read more to see the total results for this year's poll beyond the top 10s.

Now color coded so you know if they've ranked higher (green) lower (blue) or were a new addition (orange)! Characters who stayed in the same place are listed as normal.

BELOVED

Lucy - 560

Paulo - 559

Augustus - 486

Rachel - 452

Amaya - 442

Daisy - 435

David - 382

Sue - 355

Mike & James - 345

Matt - 342

Molly - 336

Janet - 330

Paulo's Dad - 306

Abbey - 298

Tess - 282

Lucy's Mom - 269

Jessica - 251

Jasmine - 239

Daisy's Dad - 237

Kevin - 224

Zachary - 218

Charlotte - 214

Chris & Catherine - 206

Jordan - 190

Haley - 189

Lily - 185

Daisy's Mom - 181

McCain - 180

Madison - 168

Stacy & Mr. Noodles - 160

Justin - 156

Mike's Mom - 154

Lucy's Dad - 153

Principal - 152

Felix - 150

Amaya's Dad - 147

Chirpy & Lucas - 141

Sam & Finn - 139

Flower Girl - 132

Yashy & Lani - 121

Mina - 119

Darwin - 114

Sandy - 113

Gym Teacher - 102

Blur - 97

Max - 93

Courtney & Melanie - 92

Katie - 88

Sex-Ed Teacher (SET) & Aaron (Rachel's brother) - 85

Cassidy - 60

Tiff - 47

Dylan - 30

Alejandro - 26

Toby & Sandy's Mom - 12

Craig & Abraham - 11

BELOATHED

Alejandro - 721

Abraham - 599

Sandy's Mom - 307

Sandy - 301

Toby - 256

Craig - 216

Yashy - 181

Mike - 175

Katie - 149

Tiff - 145

Paulo - 101

David - 99

Lily - 97

Melanie - 92

Lucy - 91

Dylan - 74

Sex-Ed Teacher (SET) - 66

Abbey - 64

Madison - 57

Sam - 47

Chirpy - 46

Stacy - 44

Gym Teacher - 43

McCain - 42

Daisy - 40

Blur - 38

James - 34

Zachary - 30

Jasmine - 24

Augustus - 22

Tess & Jessica - 21

Darwin & Justin - 19

Mina - 16

Mr. Noodles & Finn - 14

Jordan - 13

Matt, Chris, Principal & Lucy's Dad - 12

Haley, Cassidy & Daisy's Dad - 11

Lucy's Mom, Courtney & Charlotte - 9

Flower Girl - 8

Lani - 7

Rachel & Paulo's Dad - 6

Sue, Mike's Mom & Lucas - 5

Molly, Aaron (Rachel's brother), Max & Catherine - 4

Amaya, Janet, Felix & Daisy's Mom - 2

Amaya's Dad - 2

Kevin - 1

CONTROVERSIAL

Melanie - 18400 (the numbers canceled each other out at first so this is why her number is significantly larger)

Sex-Ed Teacher (SET) - 695

Yashy - 403

Katie - 289

Lily - 220

Mike - 206

Gym Teacher - 146

Dylan - 136

Blur - 129

Sandy - 120

Madison - 103

Sam - 102

Chirpy - 97

Tiff - 96

Stacy - 76

David - 70

McCain - 61

Abbey - 55

Cassidy - 45

Paulo - 44

Darwin - 40 (most of these numbers are rounded, but this was a true 40.00)

Lucy - 39

Zachary - 32

Mina - 31

Justin - 28

Finn - 22.4

Jasmine - 22.3

James - 21.8

Courtney - 21.6

Daisy - 20

Mr. Noodles - 19

Jessica - 18

Principal - 17.1

Lucy's Dad - 17.02

Tess - 16

Jordan - 15

Flower Girl - 13

Chris - 12.37

Haley - 12.35 (everyone after this point is ranked lower than before im lazy)

Lani - 12.28

Aaron (Rachel's brother) - 9.87

Toby - 9.83

Daisy's Dad - 9.73

Augustus - 9.48

Max - 8.9

Charlotte - 8.7

Sandy's Mom - 8.1

Alejandro - 7.4

Lucas - 7.3

Matt - 7.2

Lucy's Mom - 6.9

Mike's Mom - 6.7

Felix - 4.08

Paulo's Dad - Pure 4

Catherine - 3.9

Abraham - 3.7

Daisy's Mom - 3.3

Sue - 2.8

Amaya's Dad - 2.7

Rachel - 2.6

Molly - 2.4

Janet - 1.8

Amaya - 1.3

Kevin - 0.8

THE PEOPLE DON'T CARE.... (i dont feel like marking these either sorry)

Cassidy - 142

Aaron (Rachel's brother) - 135

Courtney Dylan & Max - 132 (i realize now the ranking i listed was wrong. sowwy)

Darwin - 118

Blur & Lani - 114

Flower Girl - 112

Mina - 109

Gym Teacher - 107

Amaya's Dad - 106

Finn - 103

Sex-Ed Teacher (SET) - 102

Felix - 99

Lucas - 98

Lucy's Dad - 94

Principal - 90

Mike's Mom - 89

Chirpy - 87

Mr. Noodles - 86

McCain - 85

Melanie - 82

Sam & Daisy's Mom - 80

Toby, Craig & Tiff - 79

Justin - 78

Chris - 75

Charlotte - 74

Catherine - 71

Kevin - 68

Stacy - 64

Daisy's Dad - 59

Katie - 58

Yashy & Zachary - 57

Lucy's Mom - 56

Haley - 55

Madison & Jordan - 50

Sandy's Mom - 44

Sandy, Tess, Jessica & Paulo's Dad - 39

Jasmine & Janet - 35

Sue - 34

David - 30

Amaya - 27

Mike - 23

James - 21

Matt, Alejandro & Abraham - 20

Abbey & Molly - 19

Rachel - 18

Augustus - 15

Daisy - 11

Lucy & Paulo - 9

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Mark Sumner at Daily Kos:

On Monday, a group of over 200 former Republican officials endorsed Kamala Harris for president. These officials—who worked for the late Sen. John McCain, Sen. Mitt Romney, former Vice President Mike Pence, and Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush—represent the last three Republican administrations and the two Republican presidential candidates before Trump.  They all share a single message: “[R]e-electing President Trump would be a disaster for our nation.” Could Trump compile over 200 Democratic officials of a similar rank who support his candidacy? It’s not clear if he’d find that many supporters even among those who served in his administration. Either way, the support that Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are getting from Republicans should be a big red flag to Trump and his supporters.

Joining the officials endorsing Harris is retired four-star General Larry Ellis, who served as the commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command under George W. Bush. This is the first time he has endorsed a candidate for president. "Donald Trump has demonstrated that he is wholly and dangerously unfit for Commander-in-Chief,” Ellis wrote in his endorsement of Harris. “He praises and emboldens our enemies that seek to weaken our country. He has denigrated our brave men and women in uniform.” The mass endorsement follows the appearance of former Republican officials during all four nights of last week’s Democratic National Convention. At least seven Republicans appeared on the DNC stage, including former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, former Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, and former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.

Their endorsement of Harris doesn’t come because these Republicans have suddenly adopted Democratic policy positions. As the letter from the former officials states, they have “plenty of honest, ideological disagreements with Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz.” But these officials are putting party aside to endorse Harris because they recognize the magnitude of Trump’s threat to American democracy.

[...] Republicans can try all they want, but the hundreds of lifelong Republican officials lining up behind Harris, as well as the long list of Trump officials who don’t want to see him return, is not something that can be just waved away. Neither can the “Republicans for Harris” groups that are appearing and gaining steam in swing states. What’s happening isn’t a big shift to the left by Republicans; it’s a broad recognition by those connected to past Republican administrations, and to many registered Republicans today, that Trump is not a continuation of the party of Abraham Lincoln. He doesn’t represent their concerns or their principles. 

Over 200 former Republican officials who worked for various Republican Presidencies and campaigns ranging from George H.W. Bush to Mike Pence, have endorsed Kamala Harris for President.

[apocalypse-polakiewicz]

Mike McCain