I've asked 256 to reveal the comic authors, but I think is/was out of town earlier and I'm not sure if he's back or gotten the message yet. In any case, while we wait, feel free to come forward and own up to your work.

The three I voted for were: A View From the Fridge (avftf.jpg), a very classy and polished first entry, Lucky Penny (luckypenny.jpg) a great one-pager that was a lot of fun to read and look at, and of course A Long Month, because it's awesome. There were a bunch more I liked a lot, including the untitled comic1.jpg, and I had a hard time not using a vote for webwench vs rmg. I mean come on, it's friggin webwench vs rmg!!!

As for my entry, if you've been reading my diaries lately, you probably know I've been practically spamming Husi with ink-brush drawings. So guessing that mine was Déjà Joué may not have been all that difficult. Anyway, just a few notes of possible interest on that:

I actually came up with the idea during the first CFC, but I figured I had stuffed the ballot with enough entries already and would save it for another time.

Unfortunately when that time came, I ended up procrastinating for a while, and wanted to see some other entries first. Then things got pretty busy at work, and finally wound up doing it over a couple of nights just before the deadline. Thus there are a bunch of panels in that that I'm really not too proud of. I might re-do a few at some point to polish it up just a bit.

In the meantime, I'm working on another sekrt art thingie, that I'll hopefully be posting in the near future...

I've been thinking about modern art recently, and how a that style doesn't require technical skill in creating for "idea" pieces. There's a piece in the art institute of chicago that's just a title, and that's the artwork. I think that's fun. I don't know much about art history, so I probably can't art for shit either.

it was a great competition and really well hosted!

The 3 podium finishers were my 3 votes, and if I'd have had to pick a winner I'd have gone for Longmonth which was simply stunning!

My entry was WW vs RMG, which was really just a bit of sillyness - Cliched and Corny it was lots of fun to draw and write (even if the writing part took less than a minute). I never did really get the chance to do more than the rough pencils but now I got my funky new graphics tablet there may well be some further refinements in my diaries.

Rock Hard Abs are just a sw-sw-swivel away!

... to toon.jpg, fwiw.

Wanted to have a go at actually drawing something but ended up losing track of the deadling and discovering when it was with an hour to go. So I had a go on the Kabam! comic creator thing in a hurry instead.

Annoyingly, instead of actually creating an image for you at the end of the process, it instead creates a print job, so to get an image out of it you have to find that file in the spool and then convert it from Postscript to something more useful.

Next time I'll try drawing something.

I amd itn ecaptiaghle of drinking sthis d dar - Dr T

I had no ideas for a comic, so Driusan sent me a script he'd written. I warned him that I can't draw very well (though it's something I enjoy). He decided to take a chance anyway, and the result was Lucky Penny. I made a few initial sketches, remembered that I have no idea how to create perspective, and just decided to go for it. I drew it using Adobe Illustrator and my Wacom graphics tablet. As a result, I'm much more comfortable with both of those.

Longmonth was my favorite of the comics, with Deja Joue as runner up. I also admit that I had to vote for zombie - who doesn't love zombies? And stick figures?
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cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic

I'll own up to The Long Month of Creation. Following in the mode of other comments here and as in the WFCs I'll give a brief post-mortem.

I didn't care for the 'result' -- I ran out of time, forgot to actually 'draw' the thing early enough, and it was too dark for any natural light, so I had to photograph near midnight with flash. The 'original' is considerably cleaner, sharper, and more black-and-white.

I somehow got it in my head that I should do something 'narrative' and since I did not want to illustrate text, I decided to go wordless. In addition, by going wordless the images and their arrangement would have to carry the story logic, which I hope was 'clear enough.' Each row is somewhat self-contained, and if I had not decided to stick with 3-square-boxes-per-row, I would have recomposed a number of panels that would have worked better as rectangles, etc.

spacejack wrote, "the drawings seemed to become more and more experimental and ambitious as it progressed," and while those aren't quite the words I would use, I would say that is close enough to the intended 'evolution' of the 'world' depicted.

I'm glad some folks liked it.

Regarding the others -- I figured out spacejack's, TPD's and toxicfur's by style, previous posts, and knowledge that the person in question had just finished and uploaded a file, respectively. I was also quite fond of the 'jail scene' in Lucky Penny.

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I was responsible for both 'A View from the Fridge' and 'Jamais Vu #01'. One or both may have been submitted under pseudonyms (can't remember), so I'm pWn1ng-up here.

I can't remember who I voted for, but I really liked: 'longmonth' (and was wondering who drew it), so props to Mr. Oregon; 'Lucky Penny', which had one of the best raw styles, IMO; Spacejack's and TPD's (we could all tell their handiwork from the top of a mountain, at night, wearing shades etc.). Apple aztek and cam's made me chuckle.

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Not that I'm really surprised.  I hope some people at least smiled.  However, comic.gif had a similar concept but did it so so much better.

I wonder who gave me the other vote.

I'm the brilliant artist behind zombie. It came to me as my mind was wandering while I fell asleep after comic.gif reminded me that I didn't need to be able to draw.

I wrote LuckyPenny, which toxicfur modified to taste and then drew. (The only major change being the last two panels in the opposite order, with the last one simply reading "It just isn't worth the trouble", ambiguously referring to the trouble of being kind or the trouble caused in the lives that he's destroyed with his evil, uh, acts of kindness.)

And since 256 hasn't been around, I know cam did turkeyslap and I'm pretty sure LinDze did apple aztek. Most of my guesses for other authors/artists seems to have been wrong though, so I'm not gonna try and fill in the rest of the unclaimed ones.
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I needed a new sig. And now I have one.

now with authors displayed.

sorry about the delay.
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