Win a piece of Marooned original artwork!

Hello Martians out there! Welcome to the Marooned Original Art Contest. The prize for the winner is a piece of original artwork from an unpublished strip - truly a unique Marooned artifact! Just think, when I’m a rich and famous artist, you can sell it on the market for millions!

See the entries here

The Prize

The artwork is the original piece from this unpublished strip (click to see full-sized version):

The artwork is pencil and ink on 300 series Bristol board. It will be spray mounted and suitable for display or further framing and will be shipped free of charge to the winner.

How to Enter

Entering is simple, just create a piece of fan art and send it to me and you will be entered into the contest. You can do the art however you like, in whatever medium you like. You can either create it digitally (or scan it) and e-mail it to me at pixelmech@gmail.com, or you can send it to:

Tom Dell’Aringa
Fan Art Contest
91 Fay Ave
West Dundee, IL 60118

Official Rules

Contest begins immediately and ends on midnight, CST June 30th, 2008. I am the sole judge on which piece of fan art wins, so tickle my fancy. Please keep all fan art family friendly. Art that is not family friendly will be automatically disqualified.

Good luck!

On May 19, 2005, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars… and it captured something else as well! (Hmm, does this explain why a manned mission was sent… makes you wonder…)

I’ve posted a fan art page with a couple entries for the contest I received so far. Get your entries in!

View the entries on the Fan Art page.

Hey folks, stumbled on (ok, I found it after he commented here) an absolutely great new comic by artist David Reddick. He’s just gotten started on Legend of Bill, a comic about a Barbarian and his Dragon buddy who got sick of the 9-5 castle grind and have decided to seek adventure. Let’s just say Bill isn’t the most experienced Barbarian!

David’s art is super smooth and entertaining, all his work is immediately appealing, but the writing is funny as well, the strip is off to a great start. To me this Legend of Bill is clearly one of the better web comics going on the whole of the interwebs, and there’s just about 9 strips posted at the moment, so you can catch up quickly - go check it out!

I’ve always been a big reader and it should come as no surprise to you that Sci-Fi is a genre I enjoy. I also enjoy Fantasy of course. Some favorite authors would include Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, James P. Hogan, Tad Williams, Stephen Donaldson, C. J. Cherryh to name just a few. So from time to time I’ll highlight new books I’m reading or books from the past I’ve enjoyed.

So last week I got Moon Flower by James P. Hogan, who is a “true” science fiction writer. His stories are often interspersed with hard science, which always adds to the believability and enjoyment of the book. So I’m looking forward to reading this one, I have not read a new book of his in some time. I actually just finished re-reading his book Real Time Interrupt while waiting for this one.

So far I’ve only read the introduction, but he has me intrigued already. Hogan has a way of pulling you into his characters quite quickly and getting down to business. One of the earliest science fiction books I read when I was younger was Inherit the Stars by Hogan, a classic and the book that led to his Giants series. My Grandfather was a big reader and loved sci-fi and at one point he passed a whole box of books to me when I was like a freshman in high school, and I tore through those. That’s partly where my love for sci-fi came from.

So by all means, pick up some of Hogan’s books, you’ll be guaranteed to enjoy them.