UPDATE: CONTEST IS OVER.
Winners will be announced on Wednesday! Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry.
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What better way to celebrate another 25 JEFBOT strips than to give away 3 free JEFBOT t-shirts away again!? Just like the contest back in January when we hit #25, the rules are simple:

1. In one of the strips in the JEFBOT Webcomic Archive, you’ll find a “50.” Believe me, you’ll know it when you see it. Find that strip.

2. Once you’ve found it, email me the date, title or number of the strip.

3. The contest will run from today through next Sunday, June 8, after which I’ll throw all the names of the people who emailed me the correct answer into a hat and have someone trustworthy randomly pull out three lucky winners. I’ll announce those winners on Wednesday, June 11.

That’s it, get to it! I’m hoping this contest will give new readers a fun incentive to read through the archives, and give longtime readers a refresher course before we continue on to the next 50.

You can check out the color and look of the t-shirt below. I’ve stuffed many favorite characters, moments and things from the past 25 strips into the design. It comes in white, forest green and dark chocolate, and if you win, you can choose the color you like best. Hope you like ‘em, and once again, Happy Hunting!!!

Congratulations to the winners of the Free JEFBOT T-Shirt Contest II, and a big thank you to everybody who sent in an entry!

It was an interesting group of winners - we had our first one from outside the USA, we had two “Pauls,” and we had a return winner from the first contest whose husband also won (what are the odds!?)! Oh, and if that sounds like too many winners, it’s because, swept up in the chaotic fun of randomly picking the winners, my mom decided to donate an extra shirt to the contest (thanks, mom!).

Without further ado, here are the champions, my friends:

General Contest Winners
• Paul, Dracut, MA
• Paul Zeidman, San Francisco, CA
• Kurtis B., Northridge, CA

Mailing-List-Peeps-Only Contest Winner
• Kellee B., Northridge, CA

Bonus MOMbot T-shirt Winner
• Shan M, Ottawa, Canada

I found out this morning that Stan Winston, visual effects master, died yesterday at only 62 years of age from cancer. If you’ve watched almost any science fiction movie in the past 20 years, you’ve seen his work as he had a hand in bringing to life such iconic creations as the Terminator, the Predator and the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. He also worked on Galaxy Quest, Iron Man, and, well, the list goes on and on.

He’ll go down in movie history as one of the greats, for certain, and not just because of his four Oscar wins in the visual effects categories. When I worked at a movie memorabilia store in Hollywood in the 90s, you couldn’t pick up a magazine like Cinefex or Cinefantatique without mention of him in their pages, and the same holds true today. Coolhand and I went to see him speak at UCLA once, and the auditorium was filled with enthusiastic fans who wanted to hear every detail of how he spun his movie magic. He will be greatly, greatly missed and the world of film won’t be the same without his special gifts. Thoughts go out to his friends and family.