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Here is a more developed page for Dave [...which Ive split into two for better screen display ~ Tim W.]. No more for a while, I promise. The intro pages Dave requested are gonna take a while...

Carson Grubaugh was born in Sacramento, Ca, raised in Modesto, Ca (the hometown of George Lucas and inspiration/setting for American Graffiti, which seems relevant to the subject of 1950s car culture central to TSDOAR and the kind of loose synchronicity that Dave Sim spins into narrative gold.As a child I thought that Graffiti Night, a summer cruise festival, was a national holiday, not a bizarre local custom). He double majored in Fine Art and Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and then earned a Masters in Painting from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI (Detroit and Pontiac basically sandwich Bloomfield Hills, so more car culture for me. I felt right at home with the Woodward Dream Cruise, another legendary summer-cruise event). Upon graduation he was named the Mercedes Benz (swear this is true) Financial Services Emerging Artist of 2011, and has since shown his artwork across the United States as well as in Canada, England, Germany and Tasmania. Carson is currently coming to the end of his time as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, and will soon be headed back to Modesto to resume working as an Adjunct Professor of Art at Modesto Junior College. (Surprisingly, until writing this, I never realized how much of my life has been spent around 1950s cruising culture because I personally never gave two hoots about cars. As long as they get me where I am going I am happy. Such a shame, given my name.)