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Comic Contest 2009 Winners
In conjunction with the Year of the Comic, Penn Libraries sponsored a comic book contest inspired by the Penn Reading Project selection, "Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body," by Neil Shubin.
Winners were announced on April 1, 2009:
First Prize: Chara Odhner
Second Prize: Katharine Cunningham
Third Prize: Gladys Teo
Four Honorable Mention Prizes: Kathryn Coneybear, Conor Elliott, Jennifer Levy and Emma Saunders.
Winning entries are provided below in PDF format. (Some files are large in size.)
 
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All Entries:
- Alejandro Adler, Beyond Darwin's Dreams
- Alex Roman, Dancing with Pride and not Prejudice
- Alyssa Boente, From communities to consumers: History of change in food production
- Arielle Salomon, Signs of Doubt
- Brian Flanagan, Signs of the Museum
- Carrie Klapper, Man, I feel like a woman
- Chara Odhner, The Perfumer
- Conor Shilcock-Elliott, A Light Version of Heavy History
- Dan O'Brien, Groundhog Doom
- Danielle Riley, Appeasing the Gods
- Daniel Cohen, In the Image of God?
- Eliza Chute, The Adventures of Jack Sparrow and the Magic Tablet
- Emma Saunders, Dream of a City
- Erin Shipley, The Liberation of Eros in the New City
- Estee Katcoff, Brave New Book
- Frank Smith, Twas the Night in the Museum
- Garret McKay, Jack, Are you queer?
- Gladys Teo, The Saligia
- Halley Goodman, A Magical Christmas Party
- Hannah Connor, Fresh Meat: The Conscious Consumer (Carne Fresca: El Consumidor Consciente)
- Jake Scobey-Thal, Dialectic of South Africa
- Jenna Riemenschneider, Alien Encounters
- Jennifer Levy, Pride, Prostitution and Pretty Paradoxes
- Joseph Romito, Pirates of Amity
- Justin Besen, The Doubtfire Cometh
- Katherine Cunningham, Adventures with Austin
- Kathryn Coneybear, Dividing the Axe Trees
- Khanh-Anh Le, Mrs. Clause Who?
- Mansi Gupta, Religion Justifies Evolution
- Mary Kathryn Miller, Moving from Appearance to Reality
- Melissa Stangl, Aliens in Dresses
- Meredith Fineman, Bride Wars
- Michael Winston, Men on Speed
- Natalie Kelly, Rattling Words on the Page, Calling My Eyes to Dance with Them
- Robert Filbin, The Adventures of H. G. Lee
- Ryan Jones, The Dreamers
- Ted Rawlings, Ocean's Circles
- Trina Hyun, Bridesmaid Madness and Pirate Peace
- Vanessa Zoltan, Career Visions Panel
- Zoe Tiillman, Freud and Hegel take on the ever-changing nature of violence
- One entry has been removed at the student's request.
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