Congratulations to all the winners and a big thank you to all the commenters and Mailing List peeps for participating!

Without further ado, here are the winners, in alphabetical order:

General Contest Winners
These ten people were randomly picked after commenting on a blog post or strip during the month of June:
• DarkWolf901
• DaughterJudy
• epikto
• Eptha
• Foxmouse
• Nicholas Joseph Kibong
• Ploute
• reynard61
• skinny arbuckle
• SeaBass

Mailing List Peeps Winners
These five were picked at random from the JEFbot mailing list, which you can subscribe to by clicking here.
• Elliott
• Gracie
• Todd
• Tom
• Vicki

BONUS MOMbot prize!
In my two previous contests, when the strip hit #50 and #100, MOMbot donated an additional prize to one lucky winner. This time was no different. The special prize this time goes to a peep from the Mailing List:
• Beastie B

If you see your name above but haven’t gotten an email, check your spam folder as all notifications have gone out! You have until Sunday, July 19 to get back to me with your mailing address before your prize goes to a runner up.

THE CONTEST IS OVER!
July is here and the contest is now closed! This weekend, with the help of Mombot and perhaps one of the sisterlings, I’ll be drawing ten names out of a hat for the general contest and five names for the mailing-list-peeps-only contest and report the winners of the #150 Anniversary BOTtons next week. Good luck and thanks to everybody who participated!

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JEFbot has just passed 150 strips!!! To celebrate, I created a special BOTton (click on the image to the left to see a close up) with jefbot, his fighting ferret Abraxas, and his shirt emblazoned with a “150″ instead of his trusty “6″ logo. I’m only printing 150 of these special pins, 10 of which I’m giving away in the following contest:

CONTEST RULES
This one’s my easiest contest yet: all you have to do is leave a comment on any blog or comic strip during the month of June, with your valid email address in the email field (otherwise I can’t contact you should you win). You can even leave a comment on this blog post if you like. For every June comic or post you leave a comment on, I’ll put your name in the hat for the random drawing of 10 lucky winners in July. Note it’s not every comment but every post you leave a comment on, so don’t be going crazy leaving multiple comments in every single post (unless the mood strikes you), as it won’t help your chances. As you can tell from this system, many of you regular commenters are already way ahead of the game!!!

So that’s it: leave a comment with your email address in the email field of any June blog post or comic strip and you’ll automatically be entered to win a #150 Anniversary BOTton! Good luck!

MORE CHANCES TO WIN
I’m also giving away five additional BOTtons to random people on the JEFbot Mailing List. If you’re on the mailing list, you’ve already been entered. If you’re not on the mailing list, it’s not too late! Just subscribe before the end of June by clicking the following link: Assimilate me! You’ll be entered into the drawing just for being on the list! Easy peasy.

The contest is officially over! Names are being extracted, tabulated and dropped into hats as we speak. I’ll be posting the results here during the first week of December after contacting the winners. Thanks to everybody who entered!

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Edit: Extending the contest through Saturday, November 29, due to all the craziness surrounding Thanksgiving and Black Friday.

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The new JEFbot t-shirt is almost here! But first I’m having this contest to give a few of them away as a “thank you” to you readers. This time, there are three chances to get into the drawing for these sweet, luxurious tees. Check ‘em out:

Chance #1: This one’s easy. Just shoot me an email letting me know the number or title of your favorite JEFbot strip. If you can’t name one off the top of your head, check out the archives, find one you like, and email me. Simple.

Chance #2: You have to be on the JEFbot e-mailing list to find out what to do for this one. If you aren’t on the mailing list already, it’s not too late. Just email me and I’ll put you on the list and instructions will follow when the next email goes out. Pretty simple.

Chance #3: MOMBOT’s Bonus Round: As in the last contest, my mom’s generously donating a shirt for an extra chance for someone to win a tee. Since the symbol on mombot’s character is a dragonfly, find the dragonfly (and not the one on her shirt, for reals) hidden in one of the strips mombot appears in (you’ll know it when you see it). Then email me with the strip number or title. A little harder, but there’s a way to keep this simple too, if you put your mind to it.

So that’s it! You have three chances to win (please submit only a single entry per “chance,” though), so do one, two or all three. The contest starts today and goes through next Friday, November 28, 2008 Saturday, November 29, 2008. After that, I’ll be putting names in hats and someone trustworthy will draw out the winners, who will be announced soon after.

Let the contest begin… NOW! Good luck, everybody!!!

Oh, and if you want to just buy a shirt, I’ll start doing pre-orders once these festivities are over.

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

You might recognize Xinda, jefbot’s sister, from one of the most popular strips in the JEFBOT archive, The Angry Scarf.

And yes, this whole “Mushroom Burger” incident happened with my older sister in Dalt’s restaurant in Burbank, if I remember correctly. There were witnesses.

#50 REACHED! CONTEST HERE!
Woo-hoo!!! With this strip, JEFBOT hits the #50 mark! Wow, #26-50 went by even faster than #1-25. I swear I’m going to blink and we’ll be at #100. Which means we should get the celebration for this milestone going ASAP – see the blog post below for all the details.

and the additional, JEFBOT Mailing-List-Peeps-only winner:
• Mary P.

Californians, all. So the no-shenanigan meter has been re-set to 89%. Congrats again to the winners!
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UPDATE (01/16/08):
Congrats to the winners of the Free JEFBOT T-Shirt Contest! Three winners from the open contest and one from the JEFBOT mailing list only contest should be getting their t-shirts in the next week or two. Thanks to everyone who participated and made the contest such a success!
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As I mentioned last Wednesday, I’ve been planning to commemorate the 25th JEFBOT strip by giving away some free JEFBOT t-shirts. Well, the planning’s done and here are the details:

1. In one of the strips in the JEFBOT Webcomic Archive, I’ve secretly replaced the number “6″ emblazoned on the shirt my character Jeff wears, with the number “25.” Find that strip.

2. Once you’ve found it, email me the date, title or number of the strip. Don’t reveal which one it is in the comments, just email it to me. Remember: the less people who know, the better your chances are to win the shirt.

3. The contest will run from now through next Sunday, January 13, 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 January 16.

I think that about does it. I’m hoping this contest will introduce new readers to the first 25 JEFBOT strips in a fun way, and give longtime readers an excuse to re-read some of their favorites. Check out the shirt design below. Unless something at the factory goes wrong, winners will have a choice between the white or black. I’m personally loving the black right now.

Happy hunting!