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niteowl
July 1, 2005 9:42 AM

The theme for this CC is pretty straight forward: People trying to sell something. Whether it's a pitch man in a late night TV ad, someone on eBay selling a grilled cheese sandwich with Jesus on it, a poor kid hawking fake jewelry on a street corner, the stereotypical traveling salesman, or even a Jehovah's Witness knocking on your front door...folks pitching their ridiculous junk is familiar to all of us. Your mission in creating your comics is to chronicle the buying and selling process of stuff we don't need, and frankly, don't really want. Bonus points will given for use of the word "mangravy" in your comic(s). Why? Because the word mangravy makes me laugh, and I like to laugh.

Here's some other minor details, a.k.a. rules:


  • No limit on how many entries you submit.
  • Series are allowed and encouraged.
  • No archived strips.
  • No Photoshopped entries.
  • In-jokes are permitted, but be warned that I probably won't find it too funny unless it's something really clever and original.

Judging to take place on July 7th, but could be extended if need be.

That's it, folks. Now go and make me laugh...I know you can.

Ready, set...GO!

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OmniMarconi67
July 1, 2005 2:44 PM

Here's a fun one to start off the competition. At the very least it will make you think about what it's like to be on the retail end of the deal (anyone else who's worked retail like me will totally relate).

294771
294777
294786
294790
294792
294794
294795

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Ewwwww
July 1, 2005 6:28 PM

294841

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dcomposed
July 1, 2005 7:35 PM

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qwertyuio
July 1, 2005 11:56 PM

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HCRoyall
July 2, 2005 1:12 AM

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cpausti
July 2, 2005 1:50 AM

294915

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mandingo
July 2, 2005 11:00 AM

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Hari_Nezumi
July 2, 2005 1:23 PM

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biped
July 2, 2005 2:49 PM

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mandingo
July 2, 2005 4:21 PM

biped you are _ _ _ _ _

if there are spaces above that is where i would have put letters

like f u n n y or g r e a t or b r o w n

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mad_matt
July 3, 2005 5:15 AM

295041

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mandingo
July 4, 2005 12:20 AM

/comics/mandingo/295187/

$1,000 if you got the title before you read this sentence

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ghostplease420
July 4, 2005 1:54 PM

295296

It is the truth!

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OmniMarconi67
July 4, 2005 3:58 PM

Yet another comic ruined by improper captioning...Ghostplease420, If you would have just left that caption out it would have caught everyone off guard, but by putting it in you give away your punchline and it's not nearly as effective. It was set up very nice, but you screwed-up at the end.

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mad_matt
July 5, 2005 6:41 AM

295397

I'm actually going to do a whole series of these, but this is the only one relevant to this competition.

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habnem
July 5, 2005 9:28 PM

295566

Check it out! I almost made a joke!

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habnem
July 5, 2005 9:34 PM

295567

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kaufman
July 6, 2005 7:43 AM

Well, if menbah's going to grace this CC with his presence, I'd better as well.

295610

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matclarke
July 6, 2005 1:17 PM

295658

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habnem
July 6, 2005 5:36 PM

295735

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mad_matt
July 7, 2005 4:11 AM

Well I had to do something about door-to-door preachers.

295862

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niteowl
July 7, 2005 3:35 PM

Judging to take place in a couple of hours, so get those entries in now, all you procrastinators.

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Hari_Nezumi
July 7, 2005 5:23 PM

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niteowl
July 7, 2005 10:35 PM

Judging time!

I'm impressed. All entries were good, even the overused Geico comic was passable. You all get a gold star.

Unfortunately, not everyone can be a winner, so I'll list the top 3. Also, when I said that using mangravy in your comics got you bonus points, I meant it. So some of you didn't get the extra points...and sadly, a couple of people (who shall remain nameless) had points taken away for misspelling mangravy. Tsk tsk. Anyways...

3rd place - biped

2rd place - Ewwwww

...and the winner is...habnem!

CC288 is all yours, MENBAH!

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matclarke
July 8, 2005 6:51 AM

AH SHOOT! A stupid e cost me a guaranteed 1st place finish and all the fame and glory that comes with it!

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