Announcement: Octobee Coloring Contest VICTORS!

We’re a long time coming with the announcement of the winners of our first OctoB-Side Coloring Contest. There’s good reasons for that, of course: on my part, I point to a conspicuous doner kebab and the subsequent spool of intestines slithering beneath my chair, gaseously spurting any time I eat. Eliza, on the other hand, has been boot stomping in the streets in a crusade against Xenu; Qais has been trying to grow a luxurious moustache and, failing that, been gluing dreadlocks of pubic hair to his upper lip; and finally, Ross has been indulging in a talmudic orgy of baby eating for which his people are known.

But those are all tertiary excuses. The real reason judging took so long is because each and every entry we received was an utterly perfect work of art, a unique snowflake made up of chromatic suckers and writhing limbs. You all deserve Cthulhus. Unfortunately, we must pick three, if only to save on shipping.

And The Winners Are…

First Place: Shin Rhys

“Cthulhu Meets Oberst Wilhelm Klink in the Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” by colorist extraordinaire Shin Rhys unanimously takes first prize in the coloring contest. And if you think this one is awesome, check out Shin’s toxoplasmosi entry.

Oh, sure, you all hate Shin, since Photoshop isn’t really coloring. Well, I think I speak for everyone when I say “Cram it, crybabies.” Sure, using Photoshop to win a coloring contest is pretty much the same thing as walking up to the winner of a Kindergarten Karate Championship, hitting him so hard he defecates his spine, then triumphantly wrestling the trophy from the erstwhile winner’s corpse before wading into the runner-ups for a gleeful murder spree. But all’s fair in love and war, and Ectomo Coloring Contests are WAR.

Congratulations, Shin!

Second Place: grisella

Though neither imaginatively illustrated nor progressive in hue, grisella’s baby-on-board Octobee gets second place. We love how it uses its infundibulae to gaspingly suck itself to the glass of her pick-up truck’s back windshield.

Incidentally, grisella also did this Betty Boop Octobee, which was easily the most disturbing entry we received.

Congratulations, grisella!

Third Place: deformed mutant

Never let it be said that a spatial ability to color within the lines is required to win a contest at Ectomo. We’ve eschewed the very concept, ever since our first excremental scrawlings of an Eldritch thing on the walls of our pre-school were filled in with the steaming blood of the toddling pleb who dared to proclaim it “Stinky!” through a mouthful of animal crackers.

Our third place winner is ectomite deformed mutant, whose zombified Octobee took our hearts and minds right before mashing them into a thick, bloody paste in its fangoriffic maw. Congratulations, deformed mutant!

Winners, please contact us with your addresses, and your Cthulhoid trophies will be mailed out post-haste! As for everyone else, thanks for entering: we couldn’t ask for a more talented set of drooglings! Check out all the entries below.

Octobee Coloring Contest [Flickr]