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Guybrush Threepwood in his Tales of Monkey Island design. He's standing near the edge of some water out of which is rearing a huge white shark, its jaw wide open to swallow him. He looks up at the shark in surprise and concern.

Untitled art by maritzac on Bluesky

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A hand-drawn map of Phatt Island from Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's revenge, done in pen and ink and pencil shading on white paper. Rum Rogers' cabin, the waterfall, the wharf, and the governor's mansion are labeled in red ink. The map has wax seal on it in deep red wax with gold relief in the shape of a compass rose. The edges of the paper are decoratively burned.

A hand-drawn map of Scabb Island from Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's revenge, done in pen and ink and pencil shading on white paper. Woodtick, the beach, the Steamin Weenie Hut, and Dread Tours are labeled in red ink. The map has wax seal on it in blue wax with gold relief in the shape of a compass rose. The edges of the paper are decoratively burned.

A hand-drawn map of Booty Island from Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's revenge, done in pen and ink and pencil shading on white paper. The governor's mansion, the Big Tree, the cliff, and Ville de la Booty are labeled in red ink. The map has wax seal on it in silver wax with gold relief in the shape of a compass rose. The edges of the paper are decoratively burned.

Maps of Phatt, Scabb, and Booty Island by

cobrass67

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Color digital painting of Guybrush Threepwood and Elaine Marley. They are both standing at the wheel of a ship. A monkey runs across the railing behind them and another is sitting to the right of frame on the railing in front of them. Murray the skull is also sitting on the railing, near the wheel. In the background is a large yellow moon in the greenish-blue night sky and swirling teal blue clouds. Guybrush looks over at Elaine with interest and holds up a rolled-up map or scroll in one hand.

"I Want To Be A Pirate!" by teras_art on Instagram

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Color digital drawing of Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island series. The drawing is in a cartoony style that depicts him with thin arms and legs compared to his body. He has fair skin and wavy blond hair worn in a ponytail. He wears a light blue shirt, blue coat with red trim and cuffs, black pants, large gold buckle on his belt, and brown boots. He wields a cutlass in his right hand. His expression is uncertain, with his mouth drawn as a thin S-curve.

That's the second biggest monkey head I've ever seen by William Healy on Instagram

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look man, I don't know. (click to embiggen)

Screenshot from Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Guybrush is at the Mardi Gras party in the front room of the mansion on Booty Island. Text in all capital letters, in white outlined in black in image macro or lol style, is pasted on top that says: "If I go to your house and the vibes are wack, I'm stealing something from your fucking house." The words "and the vibes are wack" have been scribbled over so that the net result is that Guybrush is just gonna steal something regardless of the vibes.

based on the image behind the cut ( Read more... )

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Color digital drawing of a scene from the end of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. The background is the tunnels underneath Dinky Island, dim and shadowy but with some pipes on the walls and a doorway into the next room visible. In the center, LeChuck, grinning cruelly and holding his voodoo doll of Guybrush and a giant pin, looms over Guybrush, who is kneeling on the ground in agony. Golden lightning flashes from the pin to the doll to Guybrush, surrounding him.

Monkey Island 2 fanart by Francisco Trejas Vargas (barf.tv) on Instagram

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Interview with Dominic Armato, October 26, 2000, that I ran across while digging through Wayback captures of old MI websites. Some interesting quotes:

I'd give my right arm, or at least some other substantial appendage, to be able to do the voice for the first two games in the series. I was a huge MI fan long before CMI was even being considered, and I'd love to hear them voiced... especially if I'm doing the voices :-) Unfortunately, I think that's a really unlikely scenario. Studio time and VO actors don't come cheap, and voicing an adventure is INCREDIBLY time consuming, so they'd have to be able to sell an awful lot of CD-ROMs to make it cost effective, which is tough enough to do with a brand new adventure game, much less a ten-year-old one.

Ha... has anyone checked how many arms Dom has? ;)

I know that in the classic gaming sense many feel that Sierra was the comapny that really pioneered the adventure game, and that may be true, but as far as I'm concerned, if Sierra created the adventure game, LEC gave it a soul, and it was the fantastic characters and quirky humor that played the largest part in that.

The humour is a well known thing in LEC adventure games. Is the humour a big and important part of EMI, which you and LEC clearly use time and effort on?

Is the humor an important part of EMI? Gads, I HOPE so... if not, we're DOOMED!!! :-) [...] From a scripting standpoint, EMI contains the funniest scene in the series as far as I'm concerned... and no, I'm not telling :-)

I wonder what scene he's referring to here. Personally I'm fond of Escape and a lot of its humor is all right with me (though I realize it's the weakest entry in the series and its sense of humor is somewhat different even from Curse, not to mention Secret or Revenge), but even so, nothing is jumping out to my mind as "aha, I bet he meant this scene".

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Color ink drawing of characters from The Curse of Monkey Island. The drawing is roughly circular and styled to look similar to the verb coin from the game, with the text Melee Booty Plunder 1587 around the rim, and colored all in an orangey gold with black linework. In the center are Elaine frozen as a golden statue, Guybrush holding out a cutlass, LeChuck looming over both of them, and a Plunder Island feral chicken.

#inktober2019 Day 4 : MONKEY ISLAND by Burak Cinar (

burakdraws)

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Poster for RetroBarcelona 2025, a retrogaming convention. The artwork is a parody of the poster for Back to the Future, featuring Guybrush Threepwood, Simon the Sorcerer, Sam & Max, and other adventure and video game characters standing next to the time-traveling DeLorean.

Poster made for the event RetroBarcelona 2025 by Pablo Serrano (serranoillustrations) on Behance

here on Instagram (cropped)

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Digital color drawing of Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island series. The background is the turquoise blue of a shallow Caribbean shoreline with darker teal silhouettes of palm trees. The outlines of the bust portrait of Guybrush in the foreground have a charcoal texture. He is fair-skinned with touches of red in his cheeks, nose, and neck; has blond wavy hair worn in a ponytail; and a blond goatee beard and mustache. In the bottom third of the image are the top edges of his clothing: white shirt and a blue coat with red trim. He looks calm and thoughtful as he looks out past the viewer, not meeting their gaze. The charcoal line defining his right cheekbone is very sharp and stylized.

here is the third piece of the new #sixfanarts series, charmful and mighty pirate, #guybrushthreepwood from #monkeyisland by Burak Cinar (

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Title: The Night After
Characters: Guybrush, OCs
Rating: General
Words: 2685
Summary: Set immediately after the end of The Secret of Monkey Island. Guybrush learns that the story of his exploits just might be an interesting tale to tell.
Notes: From this prompt: Your character is in a cafe and overhears a conversation. How does it make them feel? Does it change the way they think about something? Write that scene. I think this kinda went out of bounds from that? And certainly it didn't take me a day to write this as a warmup in the way it's intended, lol. Try more like several weeks. But whatever.

The Night After

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Color digital drawing of the Voodoo Lady from the Monkey Island series, as a young woman. She's a Black woman with brown eyes and long dark hair, appearing to be in her early 20s. She's wearing a white strapless dress with a red belt and green trim in with a design of interlocking triangles around the top of the bodice, a red scarf tied over her hair that makes the long part of her hair puff out below, and large hoop earrings. She holds a book in one hand and looks at a cauldron of green glowing liquid that is giving off green steam or smoke. Her expression suggests that something about the spell is not acting as she expected it to.

Contest: (Young) Voodoo Lady by

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I've been sitting on these for a while, oop. This is kinda long, so ( a cut it is )

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The posting guidelines have been updated (well... have been made in the first place 😄) in the community profile. Geez, that only took me six weeks...

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$Screenshot from Return to Monkey Island. Guybrush greets two sailors on another ship, saying \"Ahoy!\"$

Ahoy!
Ahoy!
Ahoy!
Ahoy!
Ahoy!

Okay, enough of that.

Scumm Bar is under construction. I fear this community is likely to meet the same fate as

weareloonies, which never got used by anyone but me, but since it wasn't already taken (a little amazing considering that DW was launched around the time that Tales of Monkey Island and the Special Editions of 1 and 2 were fairly big fandom news) I thought I ought to squat on it.

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