I've recently added a few webcomics to my daily consumption of such better known syndicated strips as "Non Sequitur" and "Pearls Before Swine". They're proof that the medium of the web is allowing some great talents to surface and find an audience without (or before) the help of the big syndicates.

They are, in no particular order...

• Pinkerton
• Imagine This
• Bullfinch

I would highly recommend all of them. I'd say that "Bullfinch" is the strangest, "Imagine This" has the most guilty pleasure (putting a Metallica tape in a Teddy Ruxpin is so wrong, yet so fun), and "Pinkerton" is the silliest.

So, to get to the subject line of the post, Mike Witmer, the author of "Pinkerton" held a "Write a Pinkerton Strip" contest. He had a two-panel cartoon with no dialogue and to enter the contest, you had to submit a script for it. I did... and I won. Apparently a number of the comic strip artists and authors over at Tall Tale Features voted on which script was the best.

People whose work I enjoy and respect chose my crap-ass script as their favorite? Were the other choices "Squirrel Sack Pie" and "Crushed Stinkbug Parfait"? Was it either pick my entry or vent sex chickens? How in the bloody heck did I win?

Now that I've expressed suitable false modesty, I can tell you my winning entry ran today. As my prize I'm gonna get a one-of-a-kind "Pinkerton" tee.

So make sure to check out my winning entry. I'm famous again.

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