And the winner(s) is(are)…

Ok folks, the reader votes have been tallied and my winner has been selected, not to mention—and much more importantly— I’ve made my pick. So, it’s time to announce the first ever winners of the Loudest Monkey Semi-Annual Coloring Contest!

Taking how the prize of Reader’s Choice is Clay Stooshnoff a.k.a. (._Y_.)!

Even after subtracting the additional votes he admitted to on the WUMB, Clay pulled out the top spot via voting! But since this blog isn’t a freakin’ democracy, there is an overall winner that needs naming, and as the tyrannical king of this little corner of the interweb, it’s my job to lay down the law on this.

So, without further ado, the overall winner and champion of the coloring contest…it’s first entrant, KrptKrwly!

This entry just captured the soul of The Loudest Monkey right from the get go and set the bar high (way too high, in fact) for anyone to reach! Well done, Krpy! You are a winner in my book—and on this blog, that’s the only book that counts!

Also, a big thanks to everyone who participated! It was a ton of fun to kick off these coloring contests, and we got them off to a great start. Make sure to stay tuned here, because you never really know when another one of these puppies (and by puppies, I mean contests) is going to show up!

Rock the Vote!

Hey folks! The time has finally come…the War Heroes Cover Competition has entered the voting stages! So, head on over to THIS AWESOME LINK and select your pick out of the 11 “heats” of covers to narrow the field!

Speaking of voting on contests, with the deadline for submissions for the First Semi-Annual Loudest Monkey Coloring Contest past, I figured a fun way to award a runner-up prize would be a fan poll! No, the winner hasn’t been selected by me yet, but heck, I feel like giving two prizes away! I’ll choose my winner for the grand prize, but it’s up to you kind readers to pick our other prize winner! So, get your vote on below…

You can see the entries by each of these fine fellows by scrolling down on the main Loudest Monkey blog page or heading to the Coloring Contests section!

And lastly, if you just feel like voting on some stuff, head on over to our Spider-Man poll and make your voice heard in a number of Great Debates involving Marvel’s wacky Web-slinger!

KrpyKrwly strikes again!

Well, the Krpy one is back again with another coloring contest submission and…well…it’s a bit out there, but hilarious!

Cheers Krpy, thanks for another great submission!

Coloring contest entries from the Homefront and/or Denver!

Two more entries just rolled in, and I was super pleased to see that they’re from my brother Dan Gibbons and Lake Forest, IL hometown hero Will Dugan, who goes to college in Denver with my broseph.

Here’s Will’s wonderful entry…

Sidenote: If you ever meet Will, make sure to ask him about any number of stories he has involving strippers. The one he’d told me from Vegas is particularly good…maybe not entirely true—who knows?—but a good story is a good story, dammit!

Here’s my broheim Dan’s hilarious entry (which I should mention, for the record, won’t be up for winning as it’s more of a photoshop job than a coloring)…

I recently got Dan and his fabulous girlfriend Zorana hooked on BSG via what we’re calling “Jim-Flix,” which is much like Netflix but features me doing the DVD sending. Dan sends me text messages and IMs here and there when stuff pops up on BSG that is crazy and/or mysterious, my favorite one so far referred to Starbuck and went something like, “Crazy and angry blonde pilot chick…are you hot or aren’t you?! I can’t tell?!” Good chuckles all around…but for the record, despite Dan’s questioning, Starbuck is officially extremely hot according to Loudest Monkey mandate.

Ok, asides aside, let’s keep those coloring contest entries rolling in!

Contest Entries Galore!

And the coloring train keeps on rolling down the tracks!

Two new entries came in, both from the good people over at the WUMB, this first one’s from WUMBer Tomer Soiker a.k.a. Spidey_82, the first (ever!) international entry in the Loudest Monkey Semi-Annual Coloring Contest (all the way from Israel!)…

I love that Scalped cover!

And, from Clay Stooshnoff, better known to WUMBers as (._Y_.), another rad entry…

Keep’em comin’, folks!

Also, the first entry for the War Heroes Cover Competition is in…and it’s pretty freakin’ awesome! Head here to check it out!

Three, OH! It’s the magic number!

The WUMB’s Thundermatts is the man behind the third entry in the SEMI-ANNUAL LOUDEST MONKEY COLORING CONTEST!
Another fantastic entry, thanks T-Matts!

Is it wrong that after seeing all these rad shirts on my monkey body that I realize my real life warddrobe is totally lame? Damn, I want some of these shirts!

Second entry in…and hilarious!

Courtesy of the WUMB’s Dr. Nightmare, this one gave me a literal LOL i.e. I chuckled..HARD! Well done, sir!

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First entry’s in, folks…

And it’s fantastic!

KrpyKrwly from the WUMB got his in first and it is…AWESOME!

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If I can continue to hope for and receive entries like this…well, I am in for a treat! Thanks for kicking things off, Krpy!

It’s time for…THE FIRST SEMI-ANNUAL LOUDEST MONKEY COLORING CONTEST!

Alright folks, get your crayons out!

Partially in honor of our awesome War Heroes cover contest and partially ’cause I just love coloring, I’m officially announcing the first ever—and semi-annual—Loudest Monkey coloring contest!

My good buddy Seaby Bess worked up my rad logo and the I love it in classic black and white, but I’d love to see some color on this baby!

Here’s the skinny…
• Take the above Loudest Monkey image (or click HERE or HERE (to DL the image if on Firefox or IE) for it) and color it in any way that strikes you as fun and original (I’m partial to crayon, but any form of coloring is not only more than fine, it’s encouraged! Go nuts on photoshop or MS Paint…whatever!). Clicking the picture to enlarge the image and then printing it should work pretty well. It’s a pretty decent file size, so it should work out alright in electronic formats too!

•Send your image to TheLoudestMonkey[AT]gmail[DOT]com. All entries must be electronic, preferred as a JPEG no more the 250KB (get your crayon versions and painted versions scanned folks, or just take photos!)

• I’ll run each and every entry on the blog (barring it’s covered in profanity), so check back to see the entires!

• All entries must be received by June 10, and make sure to give me your mailing address in the email with your entry, because….

After the entry cutoff date, I’ll pick out a few of my favorites and send out some prizes to the lucky winners!

So, keep checking back in to see some rad coloring, and I hope to be able to decorate my desk area with numerous awesome entries just as I did to cover up the ugly pink walls of my room back in college!

This…this is one of those walls!