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ObiJo
November 21, 2001 7:17 PM

Sorry for the delay on this one. I'll tell you what I was trying to do. For the last three contests I've won, I've offered the contest to Brad to run. I think it would be a lot of fun to have him run and judge one. He seems open to doing it, I've just had bad timing. The first time I offered (cc72), he was out of town. The second time (cc76), he was sick. This time, I haven't got an email back from him, but all signs point to alien abduction. This will probably be the last time I try, but I'd suggest that whoever wins cc99 think about turning over cc100 to the Big Kahuna.

On to the contest.

For this contest, there is a price of admission. Everyone who submits to this contest must post at least one picture of a midget. (Only one's required even if you have multiple entries. Also, it must be a different one than anyone else has already posted.) You see, my sister is midget-a-phobic. I should understand and respect this, but instead I plan on taking all the pictures you post, saving them, then printing them out at Christmas and wrapping her presents with them. I love being a brother.

The rules:

- This contest's all about series. You must submit a comic series. It must be at least 3 comics long, and there is no limit on its upper end. It must also be a new series. Not one you've done in the past. Its subject can be anything.

- For a little fun, there's also the gender role rule. Ever notice how Monty Python or Kids in the Hall often use their male actors as female characters? Well, we're gonna do the same. Dieselsweeties' indypete is now a woman. No other female can appear in this contest. Though we see him as a guy, all the characters in our comics see him as a woman. indypete doesn't have to appear, but if you want a female character in your strip, indypete is it. Also, indypete can ONLY appear as a woman in this contest. Clear as mud?

That's it. Midgets, series comics, and indypete as a woman. Yowza.

Since making series comics may take a little longer, and here in the US we have Thanksgiving tomorrow, this contest won't end till Monday evening. Multiple entries accepted. Good luck, have fun.

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JrnymnNate
November 21, 2001 7:43 PM

This sounds great!!!

Now, to find a midget...

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wirthling
November 21, 2001 7:53 PM

Not one, not two, but SIX midgets for the price of one!

Oh, I'm supposed to post some comics or something, too, eh?

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andydougan
November 21, 2001 7:59 PM

Midget ->

Comics to follow.

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Spankling
November 21, 2001 10:08 PM


MG Midget Mk II - 1965

Fun to drive, but you have to crawl to get out of them.

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Spankling
November 21, 2001 10:09 PM

Oh yeah... a comic series with Pete in drag... coming up.

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Spankling
November 21, 2001 10:55 PM

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BigEvilDan
November 22, 2001 7:46 AM

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DexX
November 22, 2001 9:21 AM

Midget to the left of me, midget to the right, here I am...

The page with this image also had a photo of this guy's late and lamented rabbit... stuffed and mounted... *shudder*

I have an idea for the series, too, but I think it will have to wait until tomorrow before my sick brain spews it forth.

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JrnymnNate
November 22, 2001 10:52 AM


He's gonna swamp pro-wrestling next year...

Got it off a site that promotes the enslavement of midgets(AS A JOKE).

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KajunFirefly
November 22, 2001 1:49 PM

comics to follow!

(if this picture is too big, say, and I'll delete it from my site {making it a broken link}, I'm having a lot of problems with my computer at the moment, so, mail me or something)

AOL Instant Messenger = TheKajunFirefly
MSN Messenger = kajunfirefly@hotmail.com

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KajunFirefly
November 22, 2001 2:51 PM

quote:
No other female can appear in this contest
shit

I've broken the rules, and I've only JUST realised it, on the last fucking comic aswell

never mind though, it's only my 2nd ever contest, I reckon I'm still a little too newbyish to have won anyway.

CC85 will be mine!!

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DragonXero
November 22, 2001 8:15 PM

It really is too bad that one is disqualified!

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BigEvilDan
November 22, 2001 9:44 PM

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JrnymnNate
November 22, 2001 10:16 PM

quote:

He's gonna swamp pro-wrestling next year...

see? he's so small that you cant even see him...
actualy i HATE broken links.

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crabby
November 23, 2001 1:57 PM

Midget ->

You know what I just made my series and it features another woman. IndyPete plays a butch lesbian with a penis.

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crabby
November 23, 2001 2:01 PM

I felt a little odd after making this series.

It breaks the rules because I didn't read them well enough at first. Oh well disqualify me if you want!

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KajunFirefly
November 23, 2001 3:06 PM

great Crabby, now there's no chance of me getting away with my rule breaking, I can't get a reprive without you getting one, and you've blatently broken the rules more than me.

that sucks

but at least I have an excuse for not winning!

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Spankling
November 23, 2001 4:46 PM

quote:
but at least I have an excuse for not winning!
So do I - I suck royal.

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fuzzyman
November 23, 2001 6:08 PM

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fuzzyman
November 23, 2001 7:40 PM

Be careful what you wish for... you may get it.

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ladyjdotnet
November 23, 2001 10:55 PM

Heh.

The really funny part is that I used to work at a Spencer Gifts. They give a really great employee discount. I think I spent more than I ever made there, after all was said and done.

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TheElPaso
November 24, 2001 2:55 PM

Next, to write the actual series....
Oh yeah just to let you know I may be newbie, but at least I'm smart enough to follow the rules. :)

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kramer_vs_kramer
November 24, 2001 3:01 PM

quote:
Oh yeah just to let you know I may be newbie, but at least I'm smart enough to follow the rules. :)

Maybe so, but are you smart enough to win the damn thing?

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KajunFirefly
November 24, 2001 3:35 PM

quote:
Oh yeah just to let you know I may be newbie, but at least I'm smart enough to follow the rules. :)

fuck me, is there a sign outside for Newbies that says "Welcome to Stripcreator, feel free to kick Kajun in the balls on the way in"?

It seems as if every newbie instantly takes a cheap shot at me!

and dont think that little smiley face at the end changes anything either!

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TheElPaso
November 24, 2001 5:04 PM

quote:

fuck me, is there a sign outside for Newbies that says "Welcome to Stripcreator, feel free to kick Kajun in the balls on the way in"?


Yep. Newbies and newbies only can see it. And my comment wasn't directed at you personally, it was at all the rule breakers. And do smilies ever help anything? I guess not. It's one of those habits that exists for no real reason, like turning down the volume when trying to find a specific building.

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fuzzyman
November 24, 2001 5:45 PM

Might as well keep going...

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TheElPaso
November 24, 2001 7:41 PM

Here's my series, named "quirky".

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ladyjdotnet
November 24, 2001 7:42 PM

My sister wrote a jingle for Lechters. It goes, "You'll always pay too much... at Lech...ters!"

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fuzzyman
November 24, 2001 8:10 PM

quote:
My sister wrote a jingle for Lechters. It goes, "You'll always pay too much... at Lech...ters!"
I guess that's why they closed at our local mall and a Kitchen Etc. moved in.

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Kitty_Kat
November 24, 2001 9:21 PM

This is my midget. This is also my first comic. I hope it is funny. I hope I win this contest.

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Kitty_Kat
November 24, 2001 9:36 PM

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Bogart
November 24, 2001 11:41 PM


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DexX
November 25, 2001 6:02 AM

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TheElPaso
November 25, 2001 12:53 PM

quote:
quote:
Oh yeah just to let you know I may be newbie, but at least I'm smart enough to follow the rules. :)

fuck me, is there a sign outside for Newbies that says "Welcome to Stripcreator, feel free to kick Kajun in the balls on the way in"?

It seems as if every newbie instantly takes a cheap shot at me!

and dont think that little smiley face at the end changes anything either!



In case you don't believe me here is the non-fabricated picture:
God please keep this from being a red X of death.

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TheElPaso
November 25, 2001 12:56 PM

OK the picture is having issues, flipping between red X and actual picture. Just going straight to the picture may be more effective, so click here:

The picture that was supposed to have loaded in the above post, and may or may not have actually loaded.

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TheElPaso
November 25, 2001 1:01 PM

OK this sucks. I went through hell to find a place I could upload this to, and I can neither directly post it nor link to it. And it really was funny too.

Hold on, I just realized that you can see the picture by copying the URL

https://www.storagevault.net/servlet/mystoragevault/stripcreatornewbiepopup.jpg

and pasting it into the browser. I know, it's too much work, but trust me, it's kinda funny.

And now, back to the actual Comic Contest.

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fuzzyman
November 25, 2001 3:06 PM

And to wrap it up...

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Kitty_Kat
November 25, 2001 3:59 PM

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Namgubed
November 26, 2001 1:13 AM

Can't believe no one stuck a Time Bandits pic in here yet...

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DexX
November 26, 2001 6:53 AM

*applause*

Great work, backward debugman. As a big fan of modern stage musicals, I had a great musical accompaniment for all those strips going on inside my head. In fact, I made this next strip in your honour...

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BigEvilDan
November 26, 2001 9:04 AM

I thought I'd try my hand at a single-panel series.

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Namgubed
November 26, 2001 9:09 AM

Next installment just for Dexx :) ...

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Kevin_Keegans_Perm
November 26, 2001 9:41 AM

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ObiJo
November 27, 2001 3:04 AM

First, thanks to everyone for posting the little person pictures. I'm sure my sister will see them in her dreams for weeks after Christmas. I particularly liked the Time Bandits pic since it was that movie that started her midget phobia in the first place. (When she was four, she fell asleep at a drive-in in the middle of watching Time Bandits. When she awoke after it had ended, she asked what happened. My brother, bless his soul, told her the midgets had eaten the kid.)

Someday, I'm going to hire a bunch of midgets, drive them over to her house, and have one stand at each of her windows and one stand at the door. Then I'll knock and hide.

Onto the contest.

I didn't disqualify anyone who broke the indy gender rule. Instead, I awarded a point to those that didn't.

Some feedback:

Spankling - It's been a long time since I've felt about a word the way I now feel about *snerk*.

Kajun Firefly - "my one, my only, my fruitbat" was my favorite line.

crabby - You frighten me. ...Wanna dance?

Big Evil Dan (Parallel President) - I almost joined Lesbians against Bad People once, until I remembered I was pro-bad people. (Also, there's that whole lesbian thing.)

fuzzyman - "Data Mining Your Cat: Building Your Own USB To Feline Brain Interface." How long before they walk straight again?

El Paso - Part XIII was probably my favorite single comic of this competition.

Bogart - I think that's the best use of the motion blur background I've seen. (The old television Batman motion-blur jingle reflexively jumped into my head.)

Kitty_Kat (Computer scene) - Animism always makes me happy. One day I'm going to do a series comic with just the backgrounds as characters.

DexX - The most creative use of the indy gender rule. (Also, I liked how you used Spankling as the voice of reason. ;)

Kitty_Kat (Hot date) - I, too, thought pools were only used to make love. My belief system is tumbling.

Namgubed - I liked this premise a lot. I might steal it just to have Barbra Streisand replace Charleton Heston in the end of Soylent Green. "Soylent Green is People who need People."

Big Evil Dan (Journey to the Center of the Earth) - The last bubble tied everything in perfectly. The ironic thing about this entry was that I came very close to making the theme of this contest multi-tiered comics. It was going to be a highrise comic contest, where each comic was a floor on the building. I was gonna call it the Edwin Abbot contest.

..Drum roll..

And the winner is...

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Despite the fact that the ladyj character broke the indy gender rule, lines like "virtually fondle your breasts", "I'd poke a hole in the ground and make sweet love to it", and "there aren't enought words to describe the emotions I have for you, my one, my only, my fruitbat" win him the contest. (The stars must have aligned right for Kajun, because I just realized he used my sister's name in his series' title. Labido.)

Congratulations Kajun Firefly, Geniu$, and whatever the hell else your name is. Have fun with the next contest.

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fuzzyman
November 27, 2001 4:33 AM

Well, Obi, I have to hand it to you. Even though I didn't win (curses! foiled again!), you run a classy contest by giving everyone feedback at the end of it.

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DragonXero
November 27, 2001 4:45 AM

quote:
Yep. Newbies and newbies only can see it. And my comment wasn't directed at you personally, it was at all the rule breakers. And do smilies ever help anything? I guess not. It's one of those habits that exists for no real reason, like turning down the volume when trying to find a specific building.

Actually, there is a valid reason for that. Loud music, like anything else, distracts your other senses, as your brain is trying to filter out all the foreground sound and make out some of the background. Also, if you are listening to complex, or lyrical music, your brain gets distracted, and it's harder to concentrate on numbers and letters through sight. Also, if you're doing your homework with headphones on, do it with Bach or Mozart in, not RATM or Korn. Hard rock lets the mind think loosely and uncoordinated, while classical forces it to think logically, and enforces proper brain cell growth. Further, with multiple instruments that are intelligible, you are made to multitask, taking in all the different instruments.

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fuzzyman
November 27, 2001 4:53 AM

quote:
Actually, there is a valid reason for that. Loud music, like anything else, distracts your other senses, as your brain is trying to filter out all the foreground sound and make out some of the background. Also, if you are listening to complex, or lyrical music, your brain gets distracted, and it's harder to concentrate on numbers and letters through sight. Also, if you're doing your homework with headphones on, do it with Bach or Mozart in, not RATM or Korn. Hard rock lets the mind think loosely and uncoordinated, while classical forces it to think logically, and enforces proper brain cell growth. Further, with multiple instruments that are intelligible, you are made to multitask, taking in all the different instruments.
I take back my Barry Manilow joke.

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ObiJo
November 27, 2001 6:37 AM

quote:
Well, Obi, I have to hand it to you. Even though I didn't win (curses! foiled again!), you run a classy contest by giving everyone feedback at the end of it.
Thank you, sir.

We used to always give feedback at the end of these contests. I think we stopped when the contests started getting larger. Feedback on 50 or 60 comics can be daunting. This was a nice cozy contest, only having 12.

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DexX
November 27, 2001 9:12 AM

I have found that the world's greatest music to study by is Clannad, especially when they are singing in Gaelic. Beautiful soft music, complex enough to be stimulating, but smooth enough to be a mental cushion.

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