💖 THE CONTEST SUBMISSION PERIOD IS OVER!! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED!! 💖

✨📖 Read the Comics! 📖✨

So! I’ve been on Newgrounds for 4 YEARS NOW and it’s been awesome! I love this community, and I’ve made a lot of cool stuff because of the energy here. Also! I’ve been an Aussie citizen for 4 YEARS NOW! Which is also awesome. So when you multiply 4 and 4 together and then add in a favorite art form of mine, you get:

✨💖📖The Sweet Sixteen Comic Contest!📖💖✨

PRIZES for the Best 16 Page Comics:

1st Place - $500 USD

2nd Place - $300 USD

3rd Place - $150 USD

4th Place - $50 USD

We will try to have it all judged and prizes given out before Christmas. We know how it be. Prizes will be paid through PayPal. And if anyone wants to throw in cash or other things as prizes, DM me.

We’re also teaming up with @Ugasisvelta to do podcast interviews with the winners! Thanks, Ugasi!

Here’s how it works:

• Make a 16 page comic, digital or traditional, color or b/w, that’s up to you!
• Then post them here to Newgrounds with the tag sweetsixteencomic. DO NOT SPLIT YOUR COMIC INTO MULTIPLE POSTS! We will not read comics that are split into multiple posts. That means you will have to put all 16 pages into a single Art Portal post. Artists can be involved in multiple projects, but each comic needs a single post.
• Make sure to have them posted on or before December 11th, 2023, at 11:59pm EST! No submission will be accepted afterwards. (I've posted some images that had EDT rather than EST, but I meant EST because I'm using Newgrounds Time, which is the Eastern Time Zone. I hate Daylight Savings...)
• Original stories will be judged higher over fan comics, though if you can make that awesome FNF or Space Dandy comic that blows us judges away, go for it!
• We’re accepting comics E through M. Keep It P-Bot Friendly! :D
• If your comic is part of a series you’re working on, keep in mind we will not be reading the rest of the series. Though this is a good excuse for starting your series!
• And if your comic is longer than 16 pages, we will only be reading the first 16 pages, so make ‘em a banger.

Some Clarification: 

• A cover only counts as a page if you need it. So if you have 15 pages of comic, the cover can be your sixteenth page, but it’s fine to have 16 pages of comic and a cover.
• Collabs are OK! Just designate a collab organizer for possible PayPal purposes.

Da Judges:

@KittyhawkMontrose (that’s a-me!)

@alsoknownas1

@Mamath

Where Can I Show Off WIPs, Ask Questions, Organize Drawpiles?

• My X Community (yes, X), Coffee Into Australia. Keep in mind, the post links can be public.
• My IRC/webchat (yes, IRC), #sweetsixteencomic on Montrose. Here's more info on how to join.
• Three Rules in my communities: NO ILLEGAL PORN, NO SPAMMING/FLOODING (Sadposting and excessive promotion included), and NO FURRY MATERIAL/ LINKS
• Please keep in mind that while furry material is banned on Montrose, I will be making exceptions during the contest period in Coffee Into Australia and #sweetsixteencomic. It will not be allowed on any other Montrose.is channel and will revert back after the contest.
• This Newgrounds Forum Post!
• DM me on Newgrounds if you got questions too. Not so good for WIP and Drawpiles tho.

The Multi-Image Art Portal Update Is Here!

Thank you so much to @PsychoGoldfish for the new Art Portal Update! Now comics are easier than ever to post to Newgrounds. And thanks to @TomFulp, everyone will have enough pages to do the contest. Non-subscribers will have the ability to post up to 20 pages during the contest period. That's so awesome! Please check out Tom's News Post for more details: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1528343

Examples:

I’ve posted quite a few comics here on Newgrounds. Here’s some I can link to:

And here’s a fun one by @deadspread83:

I believe that’s it! I can’t wait to see all the comics, and come on by and chat on in Coffee Into Australia, the Newgrounds Forum Post, or IRC!

Get Chillo~ 💙🩵

Thanks so much to @Dieswyx for collabing with me again. 💜 And thanks to @alsoknownas1 for his programming magic. 💖

🎞️ Check Out the Behind the Scenes! 🎞️

📡Saturday Night Streaming📡 coming your way EVERY SATURDAY at Montrosechat, starting at 9pm EDT (1am UTC). Yours truly, Kittyhawk, will be making some art while DJ harry_lime brings you good tunes and strange videos. The chat will be hopping all night long! 🌙 Be there!

✨🌟 YEAH, I DO COMMISSIONS 🌟✨

Normal Girl is a comic about a normal girl living her normal life. Please give it a read! I hope you enjoy it. I of course used Bando’s Comic Wizard to publish it. If you too have a comic you want to publish on Newgrounds, please consider using this easy and free utility!

There’s special thanks included in the comic to all the awesome people who encouraged me to work on Normal Girl. 💖

Normal Girl print comic sold out at Comicstreet 2023. I was really shocked and happy with the response. Here’s some fanart that @Warvester made to celebrate that moment. Very cute!

Happy Readings! 💖 

EDIT: 2nd Place P-Bot Daily Pick?! Wow! Thank you so much!

Saturday Night Streaming is coming your way from Montrose.is/chatting EVERY SATURDAY @ 9pm EDT!! (Sundays 1am UTC, 11am AEST) Come on by for Art, Music, Videos, and Chat. There's guaranteed to be something new to you. See you there!

🎨✨🌟 YEAH, I DO COMMISSIONS. 🌟✨🎨

Doing my Birthday Stream at Montrose.is/chatting TONIGHT (Sat, Jul 8) at 9pm EDT (1am UTC, 11am AEST). I'm going to be drawing favorite characters and OCs in swimsuits using entries from this Twitter Thread. If you have a Twitter account, you can still enter before the stream begins! And no worries if you don't! Just come on by and hang out because we'll have art, music, videos, and kicking chat. I hope to see you there!

✨🌊🩵💖Read Paradise Slice Comic💖🩵🏝️✨

Come on by EVERY SATURDAY @ 9pm EDT (1am UTC) for Saturday Night Streaming at Montrosechat. We got art being made, we got music being played, we even got movies and videos being displayed! I'll see you there in the chat!

Also...

✨🌊🩵💖Read Paradise Slice Comic💖🩵🏝️✨

OH WOW!! 2nd PLACE DAILY P-BOT PICK?!!! AND FRONTPAGED?! YEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!

Thank you so much to everyone who voted, faved, and shared Bando's Comic Wizard! I'm so glad you like our little Comic/Image Viewer making utility! We hope that it will bring on a flurry of comics to Newgrounds. I'm ready to read!

Speaking of...

The first graphic novel to be published with Bando's Comic Wizard has been posted to the Games Portal! Please check out @deadspread83's How to Make Bread with Gran and Goober. Learn to make bread with a cool Risograph style:

And as always...

✨🌊🩵💖Read Paradise Slice Comic💖🩵🏝️✨

Please check out Bando's Comic Wizard! Make Your Own Comic/Image Viewers for Newgrounds and more:

We here at Montrose have been working on this utility for a couple months now. If you've been wanting to post your long-form comics with smooth streaming to the Games Portal, this utility will help you do that. @alsoknownas1 did some amazing stuff with ZIP file generation. It's like magic! 🧙‍♂️

Thanks so much to @Dieswyx for the kicking track that inspired us to go full keygen. You are an inspiration, sir. 🫡

Check the crawl to see if you got greets. 😉

If you want to see how the Comic Viewer looks when you upload it to the Games Portal, please check out these comics:

Bando's Comic Wizard pairs well with the Newgrounds Art Scheduler, also from Montrose! Please check it out if you want to Set It and Forget It when it comes to Art Portal posts: https://kittyhawkmontrose.newgrounds.com/news/post/1344527

Remember, Montrose got your back when it comes to postin' comics. Happy Comicking!

(And as always, Saturday Night Streaming, Every Saturday at 9pm at Montrose.is/chatting)

1.4K FANS!! Yay! Thank you so much to everyone who follows me! Y'all are awesome. 💖

Come on by for a Stream this weekend! It's a chatroom all week too.