The winners of the 2005 OzComic 24 hour Comic Challenge

Congratulations to all the particpants and in particular the winners, there was some great work this year from all.

Special thanks to Graeme and Maggie for all their hard work, this has been the best challenge yet and its ALL because of them.
Thanks to Mopy and Simon for helping spread the word.

Big thanks to all the kind people who donated prizes.

Lastly thanks to everyone who entered it was a joy to read so many awesomely cool entries.

The winners are-

8 page category

1st prize
A gift voucher, valued at $100, from Impact Comics
goes to
Jase Harper - Space Flight at The OK Corral - Brisbane

2nd prize
A sketch drawn by Nicola Scott (Star Wars, The Watch)
goes to
Matthew William Huynh - Cul De Sac Scarecrow - Sydney

3rd prize
A subscription to FilmInk and DVDs, courtesy of FilmInk
goes to
Komala Singh - Mourning Tea - Sydney


16 Page
1st prize
A selection of graphic novels from Pulp Fiction Comics, worth $250
goes to
Doug Holgate - Checkmate Wordsworth - Melbourne

2nd Prize
An original page of Comic Art by Gary Chaloner (Jackeroo, John Law) and a limited edition copy of John Law signed by Will Eisner
goes to
Tee Hamilton - Django NOTaGOTH - Melbourne

3rd prize
Courtesy of Phosphorescent Comics, a voucher worth $70 to be spent at www.phosphoresecnt.com.au and a subscription to Azerath
goes to
Alvin Chan - Escape Velocity - Adelaide


24 Page

Grand prize
A table in Artists Alley for Supanova (Brisbane or Sydney), courtesy of Supanova
goes to
Michael Li - The First Time I Fetched Water - Brisbane

1st Runner Up
The opportunity to illustrate the back cover of Small Gods #12, courtesy of Jason Rands (Small Gods, Helios)
goes to
Patrick Alexander - CUNT! - Sydney

2nd runner up prize
An original page from The Watch and a signed set of comic by Stewart McKenny (The Watch and Captain America)
goes to
Edward Grug III- Gasp - Perth

Again congratulations to everyone involved, there were some real close calls in the 24 and 8 page categories.

131 people registered
90 people started
80 people did at least 8 pages
1350 pages of comics was created in 3 days, that's about 60 standard comic books or about as many comics as Marvel publishes a month.
159 people have joined the Pulp Faction boards since registrations for challenge opened
500,000 web page hits were recieved by the forum during the 3 weeks of the challenge
While its hard to say how many individuals visited the forums it can be guessed at between 3000 and 5000 people.

I hope you join us next year for an even better event.