December/January Holiday Contest Winners!

[Barb Gordon]

Thank you all so so so so so (x 1000) much for not coming after me with pitchforks and torches after taking so long to get the results up. But like I mentioned in the main contest thread, January isn't over yet :p
I don't know about you, but this was a really enjoyable contest. It was great to see everyone writing in this form and to see the kinds of things that came out of your minds! scary...very scary...haha.
Anyhoo, thanks again to all who participated, you did a fantabulous job. And also a HUGE thanks to Eddie G., TimTwoFace and Fray for being the guest judges for this contest. You were all so delightful to judge with!!!
So, without further blabbing on and on, here are the winners:

1st place: Spontaneous Mike (http://forums.toonzone.net/showpost.php?p=1552145&postcount=14)

2nd place: Ziggy (http://forums.toonzone.net/showpost.php?p=1551170&postcount=13)

3rd place: Strawberry Jam (http://forums.toonzone.net/showpost.php?p=1554410&postcount=15)

Hope you three enjoy your avatar prizes...we were a bit more...interesting this time around, bwahahahahaha!!! :sweat:

Thanks one more time to the participants, judges and the winners!!!! Hope to see everyone again in the next contest.

~Barb

[Matthew Williams]

and, in the spirit of stream of consciousness poetry, stream of consciousness avatars! Note the spartan design. And the pie. There was much pie.

http://www.toonzone.net/hulkied/firstpie.gif http://www.toonzone.net/hulkied/secondpie.gif http://www.toonzone.net/hulkied/thirdpie.gif

Congrats to all the winners!

[can_i_live_777]

Congratulations to all. But mostly, YAY FOR PIE!

[Storm]

Congrats to the winners! :)

- Fray

[TimTwoFace]

Congrats to everyone that entered and especially those that won. I must say, when I was voting, I was still having a tough time deciding between whose I liked most at the end it - it was a very tough task to slowly eliminate all but the final three I chose.

Whatever the case, congrats again, and HUZZAH FOR PIE!

-Tim

[RD!]

Hey. I do enjoy a good pie.

(thanks guys and congratulations to Ziggy and Mike.)

[Eddie G.]

Congrats to all the winners, you all did a great job, wear your avatars proudly.

[Mike Spartz]

:eek: :eek: :eek: :D :D :D :crying: :crying: :crying:

Thank you everyone. This is the first prize that I have recieved for a contest on the story board and to tell you the truth, I didn't expect it at all. When I first heard about this contest, I wasn't sure about entering. I thought I had a bad rep here, considering how whiny I was about the lack of a short story contest until one was posted a couple months ago. But a part of me wanted to enter, and a part of me wanted to show you guys what I was made of, and a part of me wanted to win. So I did and I'm glad I made that choice. Ironically, in the end it wasn't being #1st place that made me happy, it was the fact that my work got recognized by a larger community, a community called Toonzone.

This win is special because it's proven to me that I have a voice and, more importantly, others are listening.

A special thank you goes out to Barb Gordon and Matt Williams for finding the time in their busy lives to make these contests for us, you guys are the best! God this is getting emotional, thank you all for voting my poem #1, I really appreciate it and I' promise that I'll take this as a sign to keep working hard on my writing.

You'll be seeing me around here for a long time!

- "Spontaneous" Mike Z

BTW, congrats to Ziggy and Strawberry Jam and everyone else who participated!:D