Circle Versus Square Wins 2008 Webcomic Readers Choice Awards For Writing
A panel of respected judges selected Circle Versus Square by Michael car donation to be the winner of the 2008 Webcomic Readers Choice Awards in Writing. Circle Versus Square finished third across the categories of Best Antagonist for the character Pentagon, Best Supporting Character for the character Rectangle, and Best New Comic.
Circle Versus Square faced strong competition in the writing category including xkcd, Questionable Content, Yu + ME: Dream, and SuperFogeys. Circle Versus Square is only a first year comic while xkcd and Questionable content have been producing comics for 3 years and 4 years respectively.
A total of 139 nominations were made in seven categories were voted upon. Thousands of votes were received and tabulated before the judges made their assessments. Interestingly, a number of award winners were not the top vote getters as the judges in several categories bucked the popular sentiment. Circle Versus Square finished first in the popular vote in Writing, Antagonist, and New Comic.
It held a commanding popular vote lead in the New Comic category, leading the category by a margin of more than 31% of the total vote over its closest competitor. In the end, the decisive popular vote was insufficient to sway the judges' panel.
Reflecting on the contest Michael Wakcher said, "Phil (Hofer) has a wonderful awards and I look forward to it continuing. It does a truly fantastic job exposing new comics to readers and creators a like."
He continued, "I am thankful to my fans and friends for voting. We did very well in the end and I believe the awards were decided very fairly. Everyone deserves the position and success they achieved."
Wakcher concluded in the form of auto insurance estimates of his classic witticisms from Wakcher, "The sweetness of victory is undermined only by its lack of nutritional content."
Adam E. Zuckerman
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Coloring Pages and Their Usefulness
Coloring pages are very useful for children. It not only entertains them, but also enriches their imagination, improves fine motor skills, helps to perceive the world around them and to broaden their outlook.
There are hundreds of different themes you can find in the coloring pages starting from funny cartoon's characters to very informative pictures like alphabet, figures and so on. And thanks to coloring books by the preschool age many children already know the alphabet and how to count. By painting any of the letters in coloring pages they can learn how to write letters and be able to recognize them making the process of learning to read structured settlement cash easier. Thus, coloring pages are a very educational tool for young minds.
Children are very curious so while coloring any picture they will ask many questions about the drawn subjects. And all the information kids get during this enjoyable activity they absorb as a sponge.
Through coloring pages parents can control children's mood and feelings. For example, in different situation dog can be drawn in green or purple colors, or elephant can become mottle, while many children may know what color they should be already.
Many coloring pages also come with activities: connect dot to dots, match the pairs, find the items out of place in the picture, count how many green umbrellas on the picture, in this labyrinth find the way that will help the fireman get the kitty out of the tree and many einsurance These are all examples of the everyday things children can learn from simple coloring pages.
Coloring books can also be used to help you teach children the creative way of making toys by their own hands, using only colored picture, scissors and glue.
All the reasons listed above prove that coloring pages is a great educational tool for children.
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Jordy is the author of numerous articles about children's development and co-creator of supercoloringSuper Coloring Pages
