by Marty Coleman | May 19, 2011 | Encyclopedia of Characters |
I would like to introduce you to ‘Hole’. She has been around a long time in the napkins. You never know where she will turn up. She can be in the sky, in a wall, on a walk way. She can have something coming out of her (often a hand) or something about to go in her, like a person.
She likes to stay in the background, doesn’t like much attention. It’s funny though, for as shy as she is, she loves visitors, most of whom drop in unexpectedly.
She was raised on the wrong side of the tracks. As a result she isn’t much for social graces. She can be rude to her guests and they often leave feeling a bit beat up. They usually don’t come to visit a second time if they can help it. That makes her sad.
Her cousins, Window and Door, were raised in the snooty part of town. They don’t visit often, though sometimes Hole will come visit them. She usually stays in the street in front of their house and surprises their friends.
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by Marty Coleman | Apr 14, 2011 | Encyclopedia of Characters |
I haven’t added to The Napkin Dad’s Encyclopedia of Characters and Stuff for quite a while. I realized I had added some new characters lately and wanted to update.
Introducing our good friend, always in the distance, Radio Tower!
You will often see Radio Tower in the far distance, on a hill. She broadcasts all day and night, never resting. Her signal never grows weak and she can withstand gale force winds (though she doesn’t like them). You will see her when what is being said should be transmitted to a large audience. She’s your clue to share the napkin.
She is sometimes lonely, but a wind farm is moving in nearby and she is looking forward to flirting with the turbines, she hears they are sexy.
Who do you want to see next?
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by Marty Coleman | Jul 22, 2010 | Encyclopedia of Characters |
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Wormy Worm goes WAY back. When I first moved to Tulsa in 1994 I joined a company making educational software for kids. We had to come up with games and projects as part of the overall design of the CDs. One of the games included a worm character and thus was born Wormy Worm.
Wormy Worm is a great observer of the world around him. He witnesses the foibles and eccentricities of people and animals and has wise things to say about what they mean. I think Wormy Worm is one of the wisest characters in The Napkin World.
Drawing by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
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by Marty Coleman | Jul 21, 2010 | Encyclopedia of Characters, Heat |
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It’s summer and it’s hot so it’s time for Sunny Sun to enter the Pantheon of Characters in the Napkin Dad’s Encyclopedia.
Sunny Sun is positive and happy, a natural life giver. She can get angry though, and sometimes burns people who don’t pay attention to her.
She shows up in the napkins frequently, often representing the idea of persistence. Keep on keepin’ on and Sunny Sun will show up again eventually, no matter how she tries to hide behind her friend, the sweet Puffy Cloud or his scarier cousins T. Hunder and Tory Nado.
Sometimes S. Sun can be seen multiple times in the same sky. That is a mystery how that happens.
You can’t go wrong following Sunny, she will never let you down.
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
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by Marty Coleman | Mar 8, 2010 | Encyclopedia of Characters, Volcano |
Today we have a new addition to The Napkin Dad Encyclopedia, Introducing Volcano!
Volcano is dangerous and beautiful. Sometimes it is a she, sometimes a he. Volcano represents what can’t be held in any longer. What is inside you that is going to find it’s way out, no matter what. it is down the road, or maybe in your bed. It erupts continually most of your life, or is dormant until many years has passed. Volcano is never truly extinct, it is always capable of rumbling.
When you see Volcano on a napkin you are perhaps seeing what might happen if a direction doesn’t change. You might be witnessing a truth coming out, or a wrong that about to be finally righted.
Volcano is often misunderstood. It wants to be helpful but it only know how to spew and erupt. It would like to find smaller fissures to enable itself to come out more gracefully. But in the end, all it knows is that it has to come out, one way or another.
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by Marty Coleman | Nov 18, 2009 | Encyclopedia of Characters |
Cheerleader a fixture in the vintage napkins. She was always cheery. I would draw her when I wanted someone representing ‘being positive’ even if she was also a bit dense or naive about things.
But she turned out to not be dense and after leaving high school she went on to the Sorbonne in Paris, then to Oxford for her Ph.D. She is still there.
She is through with her goth phase and is now back to her cheery self, though with red hair and three tattoos her mother and father don’t know about yet.
She can still fit in her uniform and wears it every Halloween and sometimes to root for the Oxford rugby team for which her BF plays.
Drawing and commentary © Marty Coleman
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 15, 2009 | Encyclopedia of Characters |
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Wiggle dog goes back a long way. First inspired by my dalmatian, Oreo in the 90’s, WD (as she is known to friends) is now most often inspired by Sadie, our terrier mixed with ‘the mystery breed’.
Wiggle dog watches. She isn’t a watch dog, but she watches. She watches things beyond her reach and reaches for them. She watches things she doesn’t understand and is enthralled anyway.
She eats dog food and likes it. She also likes stale pretzels quite a bit.
She always represents love, enthusiasm and energy for life.
Her best friend is Whiny Cat even though they are constantly quite rude to each other.
Drawing by Marty Coleman, The Napkin Dad of the Napkin Dad Daily blog. You should check it out, subscribe to receive a napkin a day. Add in the voluntary paid subscription and you will not only make your brain bigger (the napkins do that free of charge), but make your (and my) day better!
Marty’s website
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 7, 2009 | Encyclopedia of Characters |
Puffy Cloud means all things good. In Napkin World nothing bad happens on a puffy cloud day (also known as a Simpson’s cloud day).
Puffy cloud came about many years ago in my drawings because 1, I love puffy clouds and puffy cloud days and 2, I wanted something that helped define a sky, give it perspective depth with simplicity.
Drawing © Marty Coleman
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by Marty Coleman | Oct 3, 2009 | Encyclopedia of Characters |
Turtle is almost as old as Snake. She came into existence not long after a real turtle showed up on our front porch. It disappeared out our back door a few weeks later, but by that time Turtle had been drawn.
Early on Turtle represented the more spiritual, inward-looking side of life. Contemplative and deep. Snake was the charmer, the socialite, the schemer. Now they have matured into both being more well-rounded and kinder characters, though they do tend to slip into their old ways when things get stressful.
Turtle likes to travel. She has been to Bulgaria and The Isle of Man. Oh, and Lapland.
Take a look at an early appearance here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/digioreo/3478778530/
Drawing © Marty Coleman
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by Marty Coleman | Sep 23, 2009 | Encyclopedia of Characters |
The second entry in my encyclopedia of characters and stuff.
Mechanoman first came on the scene back in the 80’s. He starred in a prismacolor drawing as a cool dude in a juice bar. Cupid shoots a cute girl who mechanoman has been eyeing. Turns out the girl is Psyche. The ensuing romance was a Greek tragedy of epic proportions.
You can see that drawing here.
A Woman and Sculpture with Cupid and Psyche Meeting Mechanoman in the Juice Bar
You may note that he doesn’t look the same now. Well, he had to go into the witness protection program a while back and his looks were changed to protect him. That story is still highly classified, otherwise I would tell it to you.
Drawings © Marty Coleman
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