Winner! Winner! Buy me a Steak Dinner!

Hi, Everybody!

Well as I've been saying:

So next month is the fifteenth anniversary of Tim founding A Moment of Cerebus, preceded by the ninth anniversary of my beginning to ruin the place.

Which means it's time for an "AMOC Birthday Contest"!

Break out the crayons, and draw a birthday card for AMOC, and email it to momentofcerebus@gmail.com by November seventh.

I'll take a look at all the entries, and pick a winner for a fabulous prize pack from the ol' AMOC Prize Box. (Depending on the number of entries, there may be a first runner-up, second runner-up, and Miss Congeniality.)

Use whatever artistic tools or media you want, all I ask is NO AI. It's beneath you.

So now we must sit back and peruse ALL the entries and see if an obvious winner jumps out of the pack:

First Up: Larry "Spatula" Wooten, who says:

Fifteen Years? Damn it!
So. Made two versions. Told the wife-fu and for context read her the bit on AMOC. Saw it was fifteen years, not 14.
Shot my creative juices on the floor with that one. Happy 15...

Flipping out,
Spatula

Version Uno:

Version Deux:

Funnily, Jeff "Filthy Hippy" Tundis did a similar gag on the cover of one of the Margaret produced issues of Cerebus the Newsletter (I'm not sure which one, and I don't feel like getting up and finding it and scanning the cover. What? I just got comfortable with my Raisinettes...)

Next in the shoot, @creative_fey AKA April C. who says:

AMOC Birthday Contest

And her submission:

Is that supposed to be me holding Cerebus? Or Dave? Or Tim W.? Also, youse guys really need to start wearing matching uniforms. Definitely...let's make this a Team Goal before NEXT years "Aw...Geez...".

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And then J. Toons! sent in:

Happy birthday, AMOC!
Thanks to all involved at AMOC. Here's my little entry into the contest.

With respect and appreciation,
J. TOONS!

And his entry:

"But doctor, I'M Pagliacci!"

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Annnnnnnnnnddd...

That's it.

Three entries.

See, you DID have a chance after all.

Anyway, Everybody's a winner. All three are getting a Cerebus@50 sticker (which I can turn into a magnet if the winners want.), a copy of glamourpuss Archive: the making of glamourpuss #25 page 9:

With hand drawn "filler" (that'll probably vary from copy to copy as I figure out what I wanna put in there to eat up blank space.) (Of course the only way to be sure is for the three of you to meet up and compare all three copies, and I'm pretty sure J. Toons! is on the other side of the planet...) (You guys'll love it. Look at the advance praise:)

And I didn't bribe them to write that, that's heart-felt!

And they'll each ALSO get a handful of crap "stuff" from the ol' AMOC Prizebox. (Somebody might be getting that issue of Ewoks that's been in there since I moved...)

AND one of the lucky contestants is getting the Bonus Prize. Which I can't tell you what it is, but it's for-Special! And quasi-secret (made with REAL quasi!). I'ma kick the entries upstairs and see who salutes...

Thanks for participating! You've warmed the cockles of my heart (which my doctor says I have to watch out for, or I'll have to start a new medication...).

Next Time: Old Cerebus pages. I wanna finish at least four phonebooks before I stop being the Interim Editor of this joint...