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Good evening, Steemian artists! I’m up late but that’s because I’m about to drop the winners of Trial by Comics’ triumphant return for “Inspirational Steemit Artists”, and announce the new theme! The participating and art for this theme has been outstanding. I wanted to come up with something special for the big contest return and “Inspirational Steemit Artists” was undoubtedly that. There’s a deep sense of pride in knowing that crypto can shit the bed, rewards may temporarily dwindle in value, and still there are so many brilliantly talented artists here in our community that dedicate time to create art and share it. It seemed so fitting to run a week where we all create homages to one another’s respective styles.

Before announcing this week’s winners, I have to take care of the usual business. Trial by Comics has a Discord channel and we’d love to have you there. Join us, share and shill your artwork, make suggestions on future themes, talk comics, foster the community. It’s the place to be. Also, if you’ve seen the #trialbycomics hashtag show up in your feed or resteems from the participants, I’d like to personally invite you to enter […especially this week’s, which I’ll get to in a minute]. @roadscape and @steemitblog have just opened a Pandora’s box of Hivemind 1.5/Communities and HF20 is around the corner. This is the time to shape the artists and comics community and we’d love to have you!

Okay. Here are your winners. First place this week goes to @veryspider for her entry, “Skeleton Guide and The Boy with Friend who Happens to be a Fish”, an excellent interpretation of @achristopherart’s […whom I just discovered thanks to this entry and again, why it was such a great theme] work. I can’t say enough about this. It has such beautiful, unsettling Edward Gorey feel. This is the kind of art I’d love to have a print of in my studio. Congratulations, @veryspider. 25.000SBD to you.

@scrawly is our second place winner with her entry “Iron Maidens: Morning Star”, based on @veryspider’s style. I am an enormous fan of both @scrawly and @veryspider’s art so this embodied everything I meant when I said “cross-pollination”. There are many circumstances where you can see two of your favorite artists attempt one another’s signature styles and this was so gratifying. Congratulations, @scrawly. 10.000SBD to you.

@cryplectibles grabs the third place spot this week for his entry, “Crypto Collectibles presents Inspirational Steemit Artist @crittercrats for #TrialByComics”. What an awesome, spot on interoperation of @crittercrats’ work. I was so happy to see @cryplectibles post this almost immediately after the contest theme was announces. Congratulations my friend. 5.000SBD’s to you.