This month’s Socrates Café question:

“Has mediocrity become the norm in the U.S.?”

Throw your best bell curveball.


Ink on Greeting Card • 5″x8″• Private Collection

Once you first remove this card from the envelope, think of your first cousins once removed.



Computer Embellished Drawing

It’s Orphan Week at toddmarrone.com. All of the images posted this week were designed for someone for something and ended up nowhere as nothing.

Based on Frank Lyman’s Think Trix system of educational reflection and inquiry, I designed these flashcards for teachers to print, cutout and distribute. After a short reading, lecture, presentation etc., students would shuffle the cards and take turns randomly choosing. Each card prompts the chooser to digest, assimilate and react to the information in a different way.

I sent the images to Mr. Lyman, assuming that he would applaud my efforts and invite me to dinner. He did not.


Computer Embellished Drawing

It’s Orphan Week at toddmarrone.com. All of the images posted this week were designed for someone for something and ended up nowhere as nothing.

When UsedWigs Radio was a brand new podcast, I was given the task to brand it. Consequently, a ragtag band of powder-wigged monsters were born. I killed them soon after but one evolved into the beloved Wigbot of today.


Computer Embellished Drawing

It’s Orphan Week at toddmarrone.com. All of the images posted this week were designed for someone for something and ended up nowhere as nothing.

Once upon a time, I was invited to design a poster for a San Francisco music festival. Later upon a time, someone else was.


Computer Embellished Drawing

It’s Orphan Week at toddmarrone.com. All of the images posted this week were designed for someone for something and ended up nowhere as nothing.

Originally pitched as a name for a now defunct rock outfit, this doomed duo was the precarious precursor to Ghosticorn Apparel.


Computer Embellished Drawing

It’s Orphan Week at toddmarrone.com. All of the images posted this week were designed for someone for something and ended up nowhere as nothing.

What has four legs, bifocals and flies (a kite)? The Bentaur.


Computer Embellished Drawing

It’s Orphan Week at toddmarrone.com. All of the images posted this week were designed for someone for something and ended up nowhere as nothing.

This huggable/beat-upable little fella was destined for T-shirt greatness but never got past the screen printing screening process.

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Computer Embellished Drawing

It’s Orphan Week at toddmarrone.com. All of the images posted this week were designed for someone for something and ended up nowhere as nothing.

Lay your eye on this scrapped tee design for former pet project, Ghosticorn Apparel. In the land of the blind…



Acrylic & Paint Marker on Acoustic Guitar • Private Collection

Two turtle doves…