Would you like your very own custom drawing by Jeff “Professional Illustrator” Hebert, only you don’t know how to get it? All you have to do is enter the “Create Your Own Caption Contest“, just like Dan did, who now has this illustration of one of his characters, “Miss Music”:

The description he gave me was:

If you’re up for it, you could do a picture of Tammi in her Miss Music costume. Nothing special - she dresses like a drum majorette with the short frilly skirt, cowgirl boots, that fancy top with ties from side to side, and the big furry hat with the feather sticking up.

I think it turned out pretty well, hopefully you all will like it too. And then you’ll get your butts over to Caption Contest 3 and enter yourself, so you can get your own drawing of whatever you like!

The winner of Caption Contest 2 was Dan Swanson!

And here is the comic book panel you’ll have to fill with witty repartee to get a shot at your very own custom drawing as well as all the glory that goes along with winning something on the Internet:

Good luck! In your entry, please specify what person gets which line of dialog. For instance:

Green Lantern: I can’t believe how long that guy is taking in the bathroom, what’s the holdup?!
Six Pack 1: Why don’t you just whip up a green latrine, GL? And make it snappy, my pants are already halfway down, and I don’t know how much longer I can …
Six Pack 2: … ooops.

And as always, please try to follow the Sitcom Rule: Don’t write anything that wouldn’t pass a network censor. Yes, even the stupid ones.

The winning entry will receive a prize of one free custom black and white web illustration by yours truly, of pretty much whatever they want (within reason, so be reasonable Dan!). Here is the sketch I did for Hades, the winner of Caption Contest 1:

(Edited to rearrange the pictures and to remove the note about changing Dan’s entry, which I ended up changing back to the original.)

(Top image from “Coyote”, Vol. 1, No. 9, ©1984, Stephen Englehart.
Bottom image from “Hitman” #11, ©1997, DC Comics.)

First, the winner of Contest Caption 1 was … Hades! There were a lot of really good entries, but for some reason this one made me actually laugh out loud. I know, I’m weird.

Hades, if you don’t get an email from me shortly, please get in touch so we can start on your drawing. Hopefully it’ll turn out well, and I’ll post it next Tuesday.

And now, here’s your challenge for the second contest, the winner of which will also receive a free black and white illustration:

Like last time, please leave your entry in the comments below, with an indication of which dialog goes where. For instance:

Half-Brain Guy: You mindless twit!
Crow-Head Guy 1: ME, mindless!?
Crow-Head Guy 2: I think you should step over to this mirror, Gary …

I look forward to seeing what you all come up with this week, thanks for playing!

UPDATED: This contest is now closed, and the winner is Hades! You can see the final panel here; thanks for the great entries, everyone. If you want to try again, Caption Contest 2 is now underway!

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How would you like to show the world how smart and witty you are, be entitled to call yourself (in whatever minor way) a comic book writer, AND win your very own drawing, all at the same time? Thanks to the Miracle of Science, now you can!

Here’s how it works.

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Scorp has approved the final version of the contest-winning Mideios’ final illustration, so without further ado, here he is:

And just to refresh your memory, here was the contest entry itself, direct from the HeroMachine:

Many thanks again to all the entrants, and to Scorp for giving me such a fun character to illustrate.