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U: When you're trying to improve your speed and quick-stopping skills, but you end up building character and humility instead. :O~ V: "Prop the bench up on a box, they said... what's the worst that could happen?"

The next letters in my tribute to Edward Gorey's "Gashlycrumb Tinies."

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O: "You picked a fine time to leave me..." Loose wheel, lose wheel, faceplant :O P: ...is there anything NSOs (Non-Skating Officials) can't do?

The next letters in my tribute to Edward Gorey's "Gashlycrumb Tinies."

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My next roller derby cartoon series, Crashlyjam Fivies, is a roller derby tribute (ripoff) to Edward Gorey's "The Gashlycrumb Tinies", which was an alphabetical list of adorable moppets meeting very Vincent Price-y fates (grim and dryly comedic) using drawings and rhyming couplets (each pair of letters end in rhymes).

(Mine has 100% more roller derby, and 67% more cartoonyness, than Gorey's)

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Edward Gorey's 'Gashlycrumb Tinies' had the moppets alphabetized by first names. This was a challenge to put in a roller derby setting, where not only do most skater have several-word-long derby names (thus lots of syllables), but each name is incredibly clever and unique-(ish).

So I went with "really short derby names, almost always just a noun" to keep it rhyme-able, and to let the noun play in to the jokes :)

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W: This may be my favorite in the whole alphabet (brick-print leggings are totally a thing, too!) X: Aaaand the fact that they're 'derby names' means I get to stretch the alphabet.

The next letters in my tribute to Edward Gorey's "Gashlycrumb Tinies."

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K: Falling right at the start means the other jammer's probably going to get lead :O L: Well, maybe not light speed per se... however, it was evidently enough to Kool Aid Man through a few feet of brick. (This is one that would probably be clearer in full color, to show the green grass and blue sky :P Oh well!)

My 'Gashlycrumb Tinies' tribute continues.

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Q: When you try to power through the pack with a running start...and it just doesn't pan out. R: ...the pack was here? :/

The next letters in my tribute to Edward Gorey's "Gashlycrumb Tinies."

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M: mopping up the competition? :/ N: "Don't smell, Marion! Close your nose!" Or: Opening the arc of the derby-scent. XD

The next letters in my tribute to Edward Gorey's "Gashlycrumb Tinies."

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Y: When you misjudge the relative momentum, inertia, jersey-springy-ness, and it just goes badly all around :O Z: When you can't get through the pack, but you... also can't get the star passed :(

The final letters in my roller derby cartoon tribute to Edward Gorey's "Gashlycrumb Tinies!"

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The art style on this 'Gashlycrumb Tinies' tribute is more 'super-deformed' / goofy than my previous cartoons:

I'm really very drawing-adjacent (I have somewhat-related drawing practice but no book-learnin'), so my previous cartoons were me drawing doodle people to the best of my ability. But to make this series more whimsical, I did a 'big head / stick figure / dot-fingers' style.

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My 'Gashlycrumb Tinies' tribute continues.

Now, why is it called "Crashlyjam Fivies"? The "Gashlycrumb" and "Smashlyjam" sound-alike is clear, but I used "Fivies" because in roller derby, each team is allowed five skaters on the track for each jam (or rather, on the track or in the penalty box; if you have a player with an incomplete penalty from LAST jam, they stay there during next jam).

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S: When your Sweat Timer runs out before the Jam Timer :P T: When you go for the last few points and... it could have ended better.

The next letters in my tribute to Edward Gorey's "Gashlycrumb Tinies."

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The series in tribute to Edward Gorey's 'Gashlycrumb Tinies' continues. Gorey's pictures are in glorious black, white and gray; but I don't have the chops to pull that off, so I decided to color my pictures like normal, then go to grayscale, then tint that to something like sepia-tone of old photographs because...that's kind of a visual shorthand for the Victorian-esque look of 'Gashlycrumb'.

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"A is for Arrow, aimed into the wall" -Crashlyjam Fivies, letter A. This is my new roller derby cartoon series: a roller derby tribute to (ripoff of) Edward Gorey's 'The Gashlycrumb Tinies'

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