The votes are in and the winner is clear: entry number nine from Suzie DeGrasse! If you haven’t looked at her entry full-size, you owe it to yourself to click on the image below and check out the details.

For submitting the winning entry, Suzie will win our (to-be-named-later) Grand Prize. In addition, the voters named her the recipient of several special prizes, such as: Best Depiction of Reality in Libraries Over the Last 40 Years; Coloring Outside the Lines Award; Gratuitious Metadata Award; Best Mashup of Humor and Depression; Best Re-Purposing of a Pony Tail; Stereotypical Librarian Attention to Detail Award; Wordiest Coloring Contest Entry Evar.

Edit: Funny stuff redacted at Suzie’s request. Sorry, Suzie: didn’t mean to get you in trouble with humorless overlords.

All the entries had strong points, points that were recognized by the voters with the following special awards:

• Entry 1 : Best Use of Color as an Accent; Best Use of Grayscale
• Entry 2 : Best Use of a Rainbow Wig Outside a Sporting Event; Best Hairpiece and Implants; Taste the Rainbow Award
• Entry 3 : Advocacy Award for Including the Value of Library Materials; Best Use of Hearts Award; Best Promotion of Scientific Literature
• Entry 4 : Twilight-tastic Award; Best Redheaded Character Since Pippi Longstocking; Best Tattooed Librarian; Best Reader’s Advisory Dialogue
• Entry 5 : Best Use of Purple Hues; Best Depiction of Fluevogs
• Entry 6 : Best Striped Desk; Best Non-Hazardous Alert Use of Diagonal Lines; Diversity Award for Depiction of a Non-White, Non-Fluroscent Librarian
• Entry 7 : The Vividly Green Patron Award; Best Use of Vivid Colors; Outreach to Leprechaun Patrons Award; The Pretty In Pink Award;
• Entry 8 : Best Use of Library Supplies; Most True-To-Life; Most Like My Library Award

Thank you so much to all who participated and for your patience as I let this contest go on longer than intended.

Watch this space for more news about upcoming LSW zines.