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gabe_billings
June 4, 2001 4:00 AM

That would be '34' for all you geek-impaired people out there.

Well crap. There's something weird about winning these things. You keep hoping you will, then when you do, you wish you hadn't 'cause thinking up a good contest is such a bitch. (At least I know wirthling feels like this, so I know I'm not alone.)

I was tossing around a few ideas that I nixed for one reason or another. My favorite of which was having another dis wirthling contest. But I decided that we could all just do that on our own time.

1. Use an animal in your strip somewhere. Elephant, Toothgnip, etc. Whatever. Just once is enough, but more would be just ducky.
2. Stealing Obi's idea, your comic must contain a line from a Johnny Cash song. Obscure is fine, just mention the song it's from when you post your strip.
3. The only vowel you can use is 'Y'. Sometimes.
4. Rule 4 is a joke.
5. You must be naked while writing your strip. Bonus points if you are naked and astride a donkey.
6. Rule 5 is not a joke. I'll be checking. (Don't forget my inter-dimensional residency. I see everything).
7. Yes, boorite. I saw that. And even though it's illegal in 37 US states and Canada, I'll let it slide.
8. Use the word 'manboobs' in your strip at least once.
9. Gabe likes to complicate things by posting too many rules.
10. Gabe likes to refer to himself in the third person.
11. Don't worry if you screw up and forget something, like being naked. Gabe is a kind and loving diety and only rarely strikes people dead for not paying attention.
12. Judging will be Wednesday night 9:00 EST sharp. (As always, this means 6:42 in Baltimore, much to Mike's chagrin.)

That's it. I think.

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gabe_billings
June 4, 2001 4:03 AM

I would bow down to tradition and post an entry of my own making, but the corporate computer security goons somehow disable my ability to post comics. Oddly enough, posting to the message board still works just fine.

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ladyjdotnet
June 4, 2001 7:40 AM

If the only vowel we can use is "y", how are we supposed to use the word "manboobs"?

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gabe_billings
June 4, 2001 8:44 AM

Well if you don't know I'm certainly not going to tell you.

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Spankling
June 4, 2001 10:32 AM

I've never entered one of these. How do I do it and is this the sort of thing you're looking for? (I must admit, getting naked in the office to do this was a bit embarrassing.)

http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?ID=20499

(And how do I include the comic image in these posts?)

So many questions, so little gray matter.
Spankling

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gabe_billings
June 4, 2001 11:47 AM

Hit the 'quote' link underneath this post and take a gander at the code. It'll make sense when you see it.

You can use comic for comics, url for a normal link to a web address, img for a link to an image file out on the web, as well as i and b for italics and bold, respectively. Just use the opening and closing tags with brackets around them.

11503

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wirthling
June 4, 2001 12:02 PM

quote:
3. The only vowel you can use is 'Y'. Sometimes.
4. Rule 4 is a joke.

Was rule 4 supposed to say "4. Rule 3 is a joke"?

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Spankling
June 4, 2001 12:08 PM

You are a saint (today). Let me try that...

20499

Yoinks! It works!

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gabe_billings
June 4, 2001 1:02 PM

quote:
quote:
3. The only vowel you can use is 'Y'. Sometimes.
4. Rule 4 is a joke.

Was rule 4 supposed to say "4. Rule 3 is a joke"?

Some gleebs are fronks. All fronks are zoops. If some gleebs are zoops, then Rule 4 isn't not not a joke, unless there are 27 vowels in this sentence, in which case Rule 4 is a joke, as is Rule 3. If you're actually wasting time figuring this out, you need help.

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gabe_billings
June 4, 2001 1:03 PM

For those that have too much trouble dealing with my stupid rules...

quote:
1. Use an animal in your strip somewhere. Elephant, Toothgnip, etc. Whatever. Just once is enough, but more would be just ducky.
2. Stealing Obi's idea, your comic must contain a line from a Johnny Cash song. Obscure is fine, just mention the song it's from when you post your strip.
3. Use the word 'manboobs' in your strip at least once.
4. Judging will be Wednesday night 9:00 EST sharp. (As always, this means 6:42 in Baltimore, much to Mike's chagrin.)

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gabe_billings
June 4, 2001 1:11 PM

20518

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gabe_billings
June 4, 2001 1:12 PM

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So it's not written by Johnny Cash (Was written by Chris Cornell), but he did do a version of it.


I've got this album. It rules.

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kaufman
June 4, 2001 1:49 PM

20490

The quoted song is of course "Big River".
==Ken

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primerAL
June 4, 2001 2:33 PM

Hey, I tried...

20301

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ObiJo
June 4, 2001 3:16 PM

20532

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norielX
June 4, 2001 3:32 PM

I just heard Manboobs, and I come a runnin'! I just think it's funny how you all caught the Manboob bug...

20533

--A Boy Named Sue

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gabe_billings
June 4, 2001 3:47 PM

quote:
1. Use an animal in your strip somewhere. Elephant, Toothgnip, etc. Whatever. Just once is enough, but more would be just ducky.


For the relative newcomers, I should clarify that I didn't mean use the name of an animal, but rather one of the comic characters that happens to be an animal. The flamingo lookin' bird, the squirrel, etc. If you already made your comic, don't sweat it too much. (Someone squeezed a camel in there... I assume trying to adhere to the rule.) I'm not all that much of a stickler for the rules. As long as you maid a valiant effort.

Unless you've been around for the last thirty contests or so. Those fuckers better damn well get it right or I send the monkey hit squad to their house.

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wirthling
June 4, 2001 4:50 PM

20540

- "San Quentin"

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primerAL
June 4, 2001 5:23 PM

quote:
For the relative newcomers, I should clarify that I didn't mean use the name of an animal, but rather one of the comic characters that happens to be an animal.


Whoops. Here's a legit entry

20545

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primerAL
June 4, 2001 5:29 PM

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5. You must be naked while writing your strip. Bonus points if you are naked and astride a donkey.

I couldn't find a donkey so I drove through the boon docks, hit a deer, and sat on it while I created the comic on laptop using Ricochet. I'm a stickler for rules.

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8. Use the word 'manboobs' in your strip at least once.

Remember that's plural. A singular 'manboob' will only count as 1/2 of a legitimate comic strip. Please get this right, folks.

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ObiJo
June 4, 2001 6:11 PM

quote:
Remember that's plural. A singular 'manboob' will only count as 1/2 of a legitimate comic strip. Please get this right, folks.
Hey, if Johnny Cash wrote the lyric as 'manboob' then, by God, that's how I'm gonna say it.

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kaufman
June 4, 2001 6:31 PM

quote:
quote:
Remember that's plural. A singular 'manboob' will only count as 1/2 of a legitimate comic strip. Please get this right, folks.
Hey, if Johnny Cash wrote the lyric as 'manboob' then, by God, that's how I'm gonna say it.

Been playing that "Love, God, Manboob" collection again, have we?

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norielX
June 4, 2001 6:36 PM

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(Someone squeezed a camel in there... I assume trying to adhere to the rule.) I'm not all that much of a stickler for the rules. As long as you maid a valiant effort.


*chuckle* I guess you have to squeeze the camel to get the "toe." That was me, I overlooked the animal rule, so I'll just go off to my corner and cut off a testicle to atone for this transgression...

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primerAL
June 4, 2001 6:39 PM

Are aliens considered animals? I have one posing as Sam Cassel of the Houston Roc... I mean Milwaukee Bucks.

20555

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wirthling
June 4, 2001 6:49 PM

quote:
yoo ball hogging crack beby

HAHA!

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ObiJo
June 4, 2001 11:08 PM

quote:
Been playing that "Love, God, Manboob" collection again, have we?
No, just the Folsom Prison one. A man can only do a prison benefit so many times before the word manboob is ensconced in his vocabulary forever.

quote:
Sam Casell, it ees okey. If joo pley wid heart, yoo are de winner.
Great, and I had just got the ESPN saying, "Wyoo duncon dikembeh" out of my head. In related news, a team of 4 referees have been dispatched to call fouls on the Bucks during the off season, just to ensure that they don't make the finals next year either.

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skagg
June 5, 2001 5:51 AM

20658

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kaufman
June 5, 2001 6:51 AM

quote:
In related news, a team of 4 referees have been dispatched to call fouls on the Bucks during the off season, just to ensure that they don't make the finals next year either.

Also, yesterday the Clippers were officially mathematically eliminated from the 2004 playoffs.

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boorite
June 5, 2001 11:44 AM

quote:
quote:
In related news, a team of 4 referees have been dispatched to call fouls on the Bucks during the off season, just to ensure that they don't make the finals next year either.

Also, yesterday the Clippers were officially mathematically eliminated from the 2004 playoffs.

Now this: In an effort to make the upcoming Lakers-Sixers series interesting, NBA officials have ruled that any Philadelphia basket shall be worth 10 points if it bounces in off a Laker's head.

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boorite
June 5, 2001 12:08 PM

20695

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boorite
June 5, 2001 12:11 PM

Oh, the song is "Five Feet High (And Risin')."

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bunnerabb
June 6, 2001 4:24 PM

quote:
Hey, I tried...

20301



Where have I seen this strip before? Huh.... Hmmm...
can't, quite.... place it.... hmmm.

Love,

bunner

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gabe_billings
June 6, 2001 4:34 PM

Too vague, too vague! Just come out and say it!

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ObiJo
June 6, 2001 5:38 PM

Hmmm...

20476

Oh, Hmmm by the way Hmmm Hmmm this isn't my Hmmm entry.

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gabe_billings
June 6, 2001 6:05 PM

Time is up, bitches. Winner TBA shortly...

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gabe_billings
June 6, 2001 6:17 PM

20912

I declare this contest null and void since none of you bastards took the time to do it nude. I know since I've been spying on you all interdimensionally.

Ha. That was a joke. Actually Obi and wirthling both took the time to send me naked pictures of themselves doing this contest. Rather I should say one of them took the time to send me a picture of both of them together, doing this contest.

They sent me another picture of the two of them playing leapfrog. But it looked like Obi wasn't quite going to make it over wirthling. Those delightful scamps!

Ok, on to the real winner...

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gabe_billings
June 6, 2001 6:17 PM

20695

Congratulations boorite. Your comic made me guffaw, chortle and spew milk, all at the same time.

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gabe_billings
June 7, 2001 2:58 AM

Friends, Romans, donkey felchers...

I just heard today that a tragic accident has occured. Our dear friend boorite was struck down and eaten whole by an evil band of maurading walruses. He tried to run but unfortunately had a dead mackerel in his backback and was singled out and promptly eaten.

Services will be held at 7 pm EST on Friday, June 8th at Stoning Bros Mortuary. It will be a closed casket ceremony as his remains exist only as a pile of walrus shit.

His next of kin ask that in lieu of flowers you make a donation to Donkey Cornholers Anonymous.

Thank you.

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Jael
June 7, 2001 6:12 AM

quote:
Friends, Romans, donkey felchers...

I just heard today that a tragic accident has occured. Our dear friend boorite was struck down and eaten whole by an evil band of maurading walruses. He tried to run but unfortunately had a dead mackerel in his backback and was singled out and promptly eaten.

Services will be held at 7 pm EST on Friday, June 8th at Stoning Bros Mortuary. It will be a closed casket ceremony as his remains exist only as a pile of walrus shit.

His next of kin ask that in lieu of flowers you make a donation to Donkey Cornholers Anonymous.

Thank you.


Gabe, I want to be what you're on, cause damn it must feel good. lol
I haven't laughed this hard in 2 weeks.

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Spankling
June 7, 2001 7:47 AM

quote:
Gabe, I want to be what you're on, cause damn it must feel good...

Words every man longs to hear.

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fishoutofbeer
June 7, 2001 8:20 AM

Okay, I realize I'm late and that boorite already won this thing, but I woke up with this in my head and had to post it. -the song is Folsom prison blues.

20983

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boorite
June 7, 2001 8:39 AM

Good news, everyone: The person eaten by walruses was actually Gilbert Gottfried, who is often mistaken for me. So I shall be able to fulfill my sacred duty.

I'd like to thank the Lord for helping me win this contest. You see, a voice came to me saying: "Gabe is judging this contest. Use the word 'tittyfuck.'"

See you all in cc35.

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boorite
June 7, 2001 9:12 AM

quote:
But I shot my wad in Reno...

And she decided to run for governor of Florida.

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