Dumbing of Age Book Fourteen

SLASH CONTEST: First place!

by David M Willis on February 29, 2012 at 6:18 pm
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And here’s our first place winning piece of SLASH CONTEST art!  It’s by Sev, and it’s Roz x Joyce.  Fun fact: This is the only SLASH CONTEST art I got of Roz!  Another fun fact: I may have to give Roz those stockings some time in the future.

Roz Roz Roz.

Tomorrow, we’ll see our two Honorable Mentions (they have a similar theme), and after that I’m gonna start talking about the other 16 or so entries in singles or pairs, day by day.  Nobody will be at lack for SLASH CONTEST art for a good long while.  As it should be.

You’re getting a poster, Sev!  And an extra thing or two!  But not just yet, since I’m still sick from my trip and I don’t think I should send germs through the mail.

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SLASH CONTEST: Second place

by David M Willis on February 28, 2012 at 7:16 pm
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I think everyone can realize why this Joyce x Mike art is amazing.  No?

Well, okay, the thing is, it makes me laugh whenever I see it.  Like, for five minutes straight.  And if you can do that, you need to win something.  On the cruise, without my Internet, sometimes I’d just leave the image open for days, turning on my tablet whenever I needed to remember why art exists.

I mean, c’mon, look at it.  Look at those eyes.  Look at that waggling tongue tube.  I want to frame it and put it on my face, so it’s the last thing I see when I fall asleep.

(It’s by Rob Kellett, by the way.  He gets a poster.)

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SLASH CONTEST results begin!: THIRD PLACE

by David M Willis on February 27, 2012 at 8:08 pm
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Okay.  This was a dumb thing to do to myself, the having people sending me buttloads of great art and then having to choose the best.  Not smart!  Not smart!

But to make things easier, I decided to make a first, second, and third place instead of just a first place.  I’ll be sending out three posters instead of just one!  (I’ll probably send something extra with the first place prize.)  So tonight you’re going to see third place, tomorrow second, Wednesday will be our grand prize winner, Thursday will be two honorable mentions, and then in subsequent days all the rest in no particular order.  There were twenty-one entries in all.

Without further ado: THIRD PLACE

Third place was hotly contested.  I was pretty sure what first and second place had to be, but in the end, this won out for third after much deliberation.  It’s by Megan Archer, and it’s, of course, Amber x Danny, with a pony thrown in for good measure.  I have to admit, the pony helped its chances, with its blood-stained hooves and …

Okay, it’s really because Danny is in a dress and tiara.

You’re getting a poster, Megan!

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SLASH CONTEST

by David M Willis on February 16, 2012 at 8:59 pm
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It was Valentine’s Day, and Maggie drew me this art of Billie and Sal making out, ‘cuz my wife is awesome like that.

Now, the two of us are going to be gone all next week on the JoCo Cruise Crazy (with Joel Watson and his wife), but I am certainly not leaving you folks empty-handed.  I do currently have a five-week buffer, after all.  Even if I get lost at sea, this strip is updating through near the end of March.

But I have something else to keep you folks busy.  A contest, if you will.  Of sorts.

The criteria:  You have to draw two of the characters from Dumbing of Age making out.  It can be anybody in the cast.  It can be guy/girl, girl/girl, or guy/guy.  And it can only be making out.  No actual banging!  And only mouth to mouth!   Clothes please.  Just smooching or frenching,  your call.  And it has to be two real, human members of the cast.  No Ultra Car.  No Amazi-Stool.  No giraffe you’ve labeled “Walky.”

This can be yours if you draw two people making out.

I will (hopefully) accumulate these illicit images while I am on my boat for a week, and when I return, I will choose the one I like the best.  And the one who gets their art chosen as best will receive a free “Touchdown” poster in the mail!  It’ll be numbered and signed, same as the others.  (If you already have that poster, I will send one of the other two.)  I will display my favorites or possibly all of them on this website.  Simple, yes?

So if you draw up some sweet makings-outs, mail your image to wiigii at gmail, with “SLASH CONTEST” in the subject header.  Include your name and mailing address in case you win, plus the name you wish to be credited as on the site.  Please make the art no wider than 800 pixels across, please, in either JPG or PNG format.  I don’t need to print these out.  Unless they’re super hot.

May the slashing begin.

In other news, while on the boat, myself, Joel Watson, and Rob DenBleyker are scheduled to be on Paul and Storm’s awesome podcast because we’re fancy webcomics people.  So look for that later!  And sometime that afternoon will be a “Drawing for Drinks” event where these selfsame fancy webcomics people draw for people so long as our booze glasses aren’t empty.  Which is the best thing I’ve heard in my entire frigging life.  It totally removes that “create a webcomic” and “get a bank account” middleman and just straight-up lets me draw for booze.

I swear Billie is not autobiographical.  Much.

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“There Can Only Be Dina” by Dan Shive

by David M Willis on January 7, 2012 at 10:36 pm
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Dina’s not going to die, thus Dina must be immortal.  And you know what that means!  Dan Shive knew, and so he drew this art.  Check out his webcomic El Goonish Shive and his DeviantArt!

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