Comments from the Halloween Pinup Contest 2009:

• Second-Place Winner!
• Judge 01: Third-Place Pick
  • Groovy Ghoulie Windows by Mike Sagara
  • Mike did a wonderful job capturing the look of the Groovie Ghoulies.  And SnowBuni’s design fits right in with them.  The coloring is also beautiful, and his faces are extremely expressive.  And the eyes flow smoothly from one part of the page to another -- great design.
  • And there’s more than one pun, what fun! Very clever!
• Judge 02: First-Place Pick
  • Groovy Ghoulie Windows by Mike Sagara
  • In my instructions from Jeff, I felt that I should be giving a lot of weight to theme, and Mike's pinup really shines in that respect. I remember watching the Goolies, and the dialogue here is spot-on, particularly Frankenstein's laugh. His version of the characters is, so far as I remember, on model. The coloring is simplistic, but works in context. I wonder at the division between the blue and pink panels; the distinction between the panels isn't very clear, so I'm mostly going by the up-angle in the blue panel and the obscuring of the purple one's archway.
• Judge 03: Third-Place Pick
  • Groovy Ghoulie Windows by Mike Sagara
  • Oh, the puns indeed.... You're going back a ways for this one; although the recent DVD release makes them more recognizable. That's quite the multi-phasic pun goin' on there. AND that's a sneaky way to sneak a second character in. Excellent work, as always. The only point I might ponder: the colours are a nice touch, but it takes a second look to tell there are two panels. (The blue looks like a shadow, and the dialogue continues into panel 2 unabated.)
• Discussion: Contest Time! Halloween 2009 Pinup Art in the Pseudo Comments forum