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John Lastig has narrowed the entries to his favorites, and now it's time for the fans to vote for the finalists in the Last Kiss Comics Writing Contest! Click here to read the top entries and vote for your favorite.
The winning entry will be revealed February 15th!
Congratulations to creator Joe Duffy and to his one-of-a-kind creation, The Fusco Brothers, starring bachelor brothers Lance, Lars, Rolf and Al, plus Lance's girlfriend Gloria and of course, Axel the wolverine! Thanks for 20 years of laughs, Joe!
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has achieved the near-impossible and scored an interview with Bill Watterson - you know, the Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist, who created one of the most beloved comic strips of all time, retired at the top of his game and then pulled off a vanishing act that would make Howard Hughes proud. That guy.
And though the article says the interview is believed to be Watterson's first since 1989, we'll remind you that Watterson was interviewed by fans to celebrate the release of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes in 2005. The 3-volume Complete Calvin is also home to a very lengthy (by Watterson standards) piece the creator wrote ten years after the strip ended.
And just for kicks, here's some bonus Watterson:
Congratulations and thanks for ten fantastic years of Lucy, Danae, Obviousman, Pierre of the North, the Extraordinary Basil, Homer, sandwich board signs, Last Words Cemetery and more!
Non Sequitur is Wiley Miller's wry look at the absurdities of everyday life. A hit with fans of all ages, the strip is syndicated in more than 700 newspapers. Non Sequitur has received four National Cartoonists Society divisional awards, the most prestigious in cartooning. It is the only comic strip to win the coveted award in its first year of syndication and the only one to ever win in both the best comic strip and best comic panel categories.
John Lustig has posted the submissions he's received so far in the Last Kiss Comics Writing Contest. You can check them out here.
Remember, February 5th is the last day for submissions, and you can enter as many times as you like!
John Lustig is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Last Kiss on GoComics with the Last Kiss Comics Writing Contest!
Fans are invited to join forces with none other than Hugo award-winning writer Orson Scott Card to complete a Last Kiss cartoon and win fame and fabulous prizes!
Entering is simple: Click here. Check out Orson Scott Card’s caption for the Last Kiss cartoon, then create some witty dialogue to go along with Card’s caption. Send your entry through the submission tool on LastKissComics.com by February 5th and keep your fingers crossed!
Lustig will pick a top seven from among the entries and the finalists will be announced on February 7. Fans will vote for their favorite, and the winning cartoon, complete with Card’s caption and the winning dialogue, will appear on GoComics.com/LastKiss and on LastKissComics.com on February 15.
That’s the fame – so what about those fabulous prizes?
Prizes: Two runners-up receive a dozen Last Kiss note/greeting cards each, while the winner gets 24 Last Kiss cards, plus a high-quality, color print of the winning comic, autographed by both Card and Lustig!
And this may just be the first of many Last Kiss comics writing contests in 2010, according to Lustig:
“…the idea of giving fans a chance to “collaborate” in contests with favorite writers is already stirring up excitement. And that’s just the reaction from the pros I’ve talked to! I already have commitments from several well-known writers who want to write captions for the contests. In fact, some have already written their Last Kiss gags. So I’m ready to go if this proves to be as popular as I think it will be!”
Once again, the deadline for submissions is 11:59pm CST, February 5th, so get crackin’!
Editorial cartoonist Stuart Carlson, whose work is syndicated by Universal Uclick, was featured in Time's Top 10 Editorial Cartoons of 2009 for the cartoon below. You can check out the entire list here.
We had lots of...interesting entries in the first-ever Cul de Sac Christmas Sweater Contest! Thanks to everyone who entered!
We present the finalists, in random order:
The family that wears hypnotic sweaters together, stays together.
"I don't want any trouble, officer. I promise, I PAID for this glorious Christmas sweater."
"How can we make these normal-looking sweaters incredibly tacky? Dogs!"
Furry collar, plastic snowflakes, stocking bling - a Christmas sweater trifecta!
These are the finalists. All four will win a signed Cul de Sac book, but who gets to add The Complete Calvin and Hobbes to their winnings? The grand prize winner is up to you! VOTE NOW!
"Entre: Vous" is the winning entry in the Great Non Sequitur Sign-off! Congratulations to Mary Cameron of Leander, Texas (hometown newspaper The Austin-American Statesman). Mary will receive the signed original cartoon, plus a replica of the sandwich board sign autographed by Wiley Miller.
Thanks to everyone who entered the contest!
