In this contest, we'll pay homage to one of the artists who has so generously allowed us to use his characters in our comics -- by ripping him off. (Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?)

Back in 1999, Goats ran a five-issue miniseries entitled "Toothgnip's Believe It or Bite Me!", at least partly a parody of "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" Here are links to the strips:

http://www.goats.com/archive/990712.html
http://www.goats.com/archive/990713.html
http://www.goats.com/archive/990714.html
http://www.goats.com/archive/990715.html
http://www.goats.com/archive/990716.html

And here's an episode I wrote back in February:

http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?ID=3682

Your task is to write yet another episode of this series. To wit:

1. Toothgnip (any pose) must appear in your comic at least once.

2. Toothgnip must reveal at least one interesting piece of trivia (true or false) in the comic.

Those are the only two elements I think you really have to have in order to make the strip consistent with the series -- everything else (including the running "your mom" joke) is optional. As long as you get those things in there, your strip is legal. Beyond that, you can keep in the spirit of the series, or branch off and do your own thing -- whatever lets you write the funniest strip.

As usual, all are welcome to join, especially newbies and lurkers. Multiple entries are permitted (encouraged, even), but multiple crappy entries are inadvisable. Photoshopped entries are right out -- only unadulterated Strip Creator work, please.

The deadline for submission is 10:00 PM EDT on Sunday, August 26th. A winner will be named within a few hours of that time. To that lucky contestant will fall the task of creating, organizing, and judging the next Comic Contest.

Good luck to all. Now let's see some comedy.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

CC 56: We saw this coming a mile away... by Drexle 8-23-01

Interesting tidbit here, man never really walked on the moon. Goats did. Believe it or Bite me. And in this building, your mom was seen by secret service agents giving the former President Clinton head. It's true. And believe it or bite me, but CRABBY DOES NOT SUCK DICK! Okay, now *that* is just pushing it too far. You're full of it!

i suppose i should apologize now, as it would be rampantly silly to post another reply just to apologize, so... umm, sorry.

C.C. LVI: AMAZING!! by habnem 8-23-01

Did you know that an adult vulture can projectile vomit up to 13 feet? Do it for me, baby. I'm not a vulture. ...Momomoto, a famous Japanese man, can swallow his own nose? PICTURE NOT AVAILABLE Damn it! ...And when he was 14, Habnem onced jerked off 10 times in one day? It was Christmas, too! Gross! You are SOOO disqualified.

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- christ@myself.com - fuck a cat, kill yourself - my alter ego has five stars

A weak first effort, but I plan to have a think and make a better one by Sunday...

CC LVI: StripCreator Believe It or Bite Me! by DexX 8-24-01

This week on Toothgnips's Believe it or Bite Me! Joining us in the studio tonight... a man who sodomises donkey, despite lacking genitals... and a body! It's a matter of willpower, really... Later in the show - a deformed cartoon character attacks the artist who drew her... Ow, ow, stop hitting me! My hand is backwards, you idiot! Plus my breasts are lopsided, and my hair is a MESS! ...but first, an idiot with no humorous capabilities and a dodgy grasp of grammar takes up residence on a web forum! Toilet seats! Toilet seats! Ha ha haaaa! Un-fucking-believable!

Speaking of dodgy art, I only just noticed how odd Gabe's visible hand looks... oh, and Toothgnip's stool has transparent legs.

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CC 56: Believe it or Bite me! by Drexle 8-24-01

Believe it or bite me, but crabby actually wrote a funny strip in the comic cup. See? I told you I don't suck dick!!! Amazing but true fact... TOBOR uses precicely 4.932 pints of lube in a single sexual encounter. RAAARRRR!!! GOAT LUCKY THAT TOBOR ONLY CORNHOLE BIPEDAL MALES!!! And now the most unbelievable discovery of all... evil_d won a Comic Contest. Believe it or Bite me!

Here's my entry:

Believe it or Bite Me by fpd 8-24-01

When Isaac Asimov died, he transferred his consciousness into a positronic robot. I'll restart my writing career once I figure out how to type with clamps for hands. English is the lingua franca of the entire universe. We have introduced English to Earth through subliminal suggestion in preparation for first contact. This is your little sister. I was drawn by Wally Wood.

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You wound me, good sir!

If I had a barstool with transparent legs, I would put wheels on the bottom of those legs, and ride it around everywhere. Then people would think I was flying about on the seat of a stool. That would be cool.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

CC56: Believe it or What by flickguy 8-24-01

95% of regular StripCreator users engage in the "in-joke" So Crabby walks into a bar... There's medications for that. 25% of them don't get the joke. All your base are belong to us. THAT is not proper grammar! This is Suki. She did your mom last night. All her base are belong to me now.

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This is not my empire.

You wound me, good sir!

If I had a barstool with transparent legs, I would put wheels on the bottom of those legs, and ride it around everywhere. Then people would think I was flying about on the seat of a stool. That would be cool.

Hey, I say it was high time you did.

Actually, if stool were to have legs, regardless of their transparancy, that should be a warning sign to the person from which the stool came that something is very very wrong.

True Bible Stories: Believe It or BURN IN HELL!!! by wirthling 8-24-01

Besides being omnipotent and creating our world in 7 days, God is also an accomplished YODELER!!! Yodelayheeeeeee! Methuselah lived for 969 YEARS!!! Eat your heart out, Strom Thurmond! I've been praying for death for over 800 years. God is a sadistic bitch! *sigh* Noah's 300 cubit long ark housed MILLIONS of animals for 6 MONTHS!!! And it stunk like a motherfucker! At least you didn't have to carry 23 species of tapeworm like I did...

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

CC 56: Amazing Goat Sex -- I mean FACTS! by itsclark 8-24-01

Goats are justly famous for our appetites (MUNCH). Like all ruminants, we possess highly evolved digestive systems with multiple stomachs. (MUNCH) (MUNCH) Each is protected by a tough integument and harbours powerful digestive enzymes. We can eat most anything (MUNCH). So you can see we play a vital role in the health of the ecosystem (BELCH). Our sexual appetites are equally great! Ask your mom.

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"You'll burn for this. Burn in jail!"

All True by Spankling 8-24-01

Toothgnip's Believe It Or Bite Me! I would prefer the latter. In the USA people are free to worship any form of Christianity they like! We used to believe in Buddha. Then we sobered up and stopped gutting virgins to that fat child molester. And in 1934 your mother was a lovely, pure and decent human being. Things change.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

CC56: Believe it or...ah, you know. by Haights 8-24-01

Tonight, on BELIEVE IT OR BITE ME! The cast of Budweiser commercials are disgruntled animals! ...watchin' the game, havin' a bud... You say that ****ING WORD just ONE more time, I swear to god I'll... A man in Wyoming declares that video games cause school violence. A-yup. It's that damn Mario Party, that's what it is. All online comic strips are designed and maintained by the corpse of Isaac Newton! And I did your mom last night. On the kitchen table. With olive oil.

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"I'm gonna give you cancer." "...what are you, a cellphone?"

So close, and yet so far from winning the Pokemon contest. Well, anyway...

This one might be funny. I'm not sure.

CC 56: Believe it or bite me by NeoVid 8-24-01

Stripcreator users have lowbrow senses of humor! Heh heh... if you name the main character of Suikoden 'Bates', they'll keep calling him 'Master Bates'. Sticks-his-dick-in-your-ass-when-you-have-your-back-turned-man is about to do your mom! Five, four, three, two... And I broke Habnem's record of getting off ten times in an hour! Believe it, or I'll make you help me demonstrate.

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"Only things I approve of should exist." -some guy on the internet

No Contest by Spankling 8-24-01

Some feeb is bragging about getting off 10 times in one day - or is it one hour... Remember when I came home drunk from that bachelor party? I must of boffed you 4 times that night! If you count the times you passed out in the middle as separate occasions. But after that I helped my self to a multiple O that lasted for 20 or 30 waves! Was that it? I thought you were singing arias to your vibrator. Jealous?

And not an entry. Also no insult intended, anyone.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

wow--neovid, spankling... i'm... honored?

oh yeah... it wasn't so much "bragging" as "i'll reveal any amount of personal information to win a contest." i guess i've been playing too much tony hawk with my fiancee--the competitive edge is seeping through.

huh huh. i said "seeping." (:

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- christ@myself.com - fuck a cat, kill yourself - my alter ego has five stars

Oh yeah.... and if Brad could
delete comic 31378, I'd appreciate it, yo.

fuck yourself, kill a cat

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

apparently, i haven't recovered from my hangover--judging from the typo in panel 3.

C.C. LVI redux: AMAZINGER!! by habnem 8-25-01

Habnem, a lowly newbie, has been referenced twice by genuine Stripcreator celebrities! Umm... I'll take Oxymorons for 500 please, Alex. He celebrated by single-handedly putting away 5 six-packs of Hornsby's Draft Cider! I'm a cowboy!! Wooooo! *Sigh* He always gets this way. Then he took your mother anally! ...unitl I lost my erection. Damn, I wish I was 14 again. Believe it or he'll come for you next!

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- christ@myself.com - fuck a cat, kill yourself - my alter ego has five stars

one strip for my first CC, two for my second...

C.C. LVI finale: ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE! by habnem 8-25-01

Believe it or bite me: Habnem looks just like Brad Pitt! YEAH I do! . . . What?! Believe it or... bite me?

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- christ@myself.com - fuck a cat, kill yourself - my alter ego has five stars

quote:

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gabe--to whom is that addressed? is something wrong with one of my links? (god forbid)...

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- christ@myself.com - fuck a cat, kill yourself - my alter ego has five stars

oh... nevermind. i figured it out, via my amazing powers of deduction. or something.

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- christ@myself.com - fuck a cat, kill yourself - my alter ego has five stars

I think we have a winner there, Gabe! I can't believe what that little red 'X' is doing to your mom!

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"You'll burn for this. Burn in jail!"

quote:

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I think we have a winner there, Gabe! I can't believe what that little red 'X' is doing to your mom!

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What? You guys can't see that comic? You're kidding, right?

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.