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Announcing
the 2001
Amazing
Kids! Comic Strip Drawing Contest Winners!
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The
second annual Amazing Kids! Comic Strip Drawing Contest is now over. Congratulations
to all who entered.
There were so
many excellent entries, it was a difficult decision for the judges.
We wish we could have given everyone a prize!
We encourage
all of you who love drawing comics to continue drawing and enter
the contest again next year!
And
the winners are...
Click on the winners' names
below to see their award-winning entries!
 Grand
Prize Winner: Eric Shansby,
age 16, Silver Spring, Maryland
Winner,
Ages 6-7: Cameron Elmore, age
7, Poway, California
Winner,
Ages 8-9: Charlie Henry, age 8, Littleton,
Colorado
Winner,
Ages 10-11: Melissa van der Paardt,
age 10, Clovis, California
Winner,
Ages 12-13: Matthew Mawhinney, age
13, Cinnaminson, New Jersey
Winner,
Ages 14-15: Luke Downey, age 15, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada
Winners,
Ages 16-17: A tie!!
1. Ashley
Olds, age 17, Montclair, Virginia
2. Josh
Meyer, age 17, Frederick, Maryland
Congratulations again
to all who entered the contest. You all did an amazing job!
Don't forget
to check out more amazing comic strips
done by kids!
Prizes
Mentors
Sponsors
Drawing
Lessons with Guy Gilchrist on the Amazing
Kids! Comics Experts page
Other
Amazing Kids! Contests
Prizes:
Grand
prize: The grand prize winner will get a chance to be mentored by Guy
Gilchrist, the professional syndicated cartoonist and children's book
author who draws the Nancy and Mud Pie comics! They
will also receive original autographed comic strip art from Guy Gilchrist,
Aaron Riddle
and a caricature of themselves drawn by professional caricaturist
Leon Bolling! They will also receive some art supplies and Michael's
gift certificates from last year's winner, Laura Tisdel. Laura generously
offered to donate some prizes, as a way of "giving back," and showing her
gratitude for being chosen as last year's winner. Way to go, Laura!
Thank you!
The lucky
grand prize winner will work with Guy to create a comic strip to appear
regularly in the Amazing
Kids! Comics Pages on the Amazing Kids! website! (Guy mentored
last year's grand
prize winner, too!)
Runners'
up prizes (for one winner from each of the following age categories:
6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15, 16-17): A chance to work
with a professional
artist as their mentor, a gift certificate from Michaels,
the Arts and Crafts Store, plus original autographed comic strip art
from Guy Gilchrist and a caricature of themselves drawn by professional
caricaturist Leon Bolling!
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Mentors:
The following professional
artists will mentor the contest winners!
Aaron Riddle:
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Aaron Riddle is an experienced
illustrator, graphic designer, and professional cartoonist, who has enjoyed
drawing since his toddler years. Very accomplished for his young age (he's
in his last year of college!), his drawings have been printed in several
dozen children's books, humor books, t-shirts, and used for countless websites.
He is also the creator, writer
and artist of Aford, the Best Turtle Comic Strip...Ever! , a daily
syndicated comic strip which appears in many papers: http://www.afordturtle.com/ |
Elgin Leon Bolling:
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Elgin Bolling has been a professional
caricature artist since 1990. He got started in art by drawing on
his Mom's walls. His formal art training began at The Brooklyn Museum
Art school when he was just 8 years old! Elgin says: "It's
kinda magical being a visual artist. It is such a joy being able to create
something that the world has never seen before, something that expresses
your emotion and passion."
Check out some free online
greeting cards created by Elgin here: www.gogocards.com/artistbio.asp?artistID=2595 |
Guy Gilchrist:
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Guy has written & illustrated
40 children’s books, and is the syndicated (his comics appear in many newspapers)
cartoonist of Nancy, The Muppets, Night Lights & Pillow
Fights, Mudpie, and The Rock
Channel.
Guy's work has been shown in
both newspapers, and museums worldwide and permanently enshrined in the
Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. Guy teaches a daily comic strip
lesson for kids on his website: http://www.gilchriststudios.com/.
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You're invited!
Do you
love to draw comics too? Send your comics to Amazing Kids! and we'll
display them in our AK
Comics section! Visit our "Contact
Us" section to find out where to send them. Email
is the preferred method, (scan your comics into a digital format and save
them as a "jpeg" or "gif" image). That way, you can keep your originals!
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Sponsors:
A big heartfelt "thank
you" goes to our contest sponsors,
Gilchrist
Studios Online, and Michaels, the
Arts and Crafts Store!
Gilchrist
Studios Online (http://www.gilchriststudios.com/)
is Guy Gilchrist's official website, where you can find examples of his
amazing comics, poems and lots of fun activities for kids. Guy draws
Nancy,
The Muppets, Mudpie, Night Lights and Pillow Fights,and
others! Guy will be one of the official judges of the Amazing Kids!
Comic Strip Drawing Contest!
Michaels®
stores are large craft superstores offering a complete assortment of arts,
crafts, framing, floral, decorative wall decor and seasonal merchandise,
including arts
supplies for kids and a Kids Club. Michaels stores are located in 48
states, Canada and Puerto Rico.
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Remember kids:
"If Nellie
Bly could do it, then so can you!"
Other
Amazing Kids! Contests
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Visit
our
Contests page
often for the latest Amazing Kids! Contest information.
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Kids! Educational Programs
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Amazing
Kids! programs, please contact:
us at: info@amazing-kids.org
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