• Happy New Year, folks! As promised, we are proud to present our new site dedicated to every little tidbit surrounding the next View Askew Production, “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back”! As most of you know, the film is preparing to start filming later this month, casting announcements are still being made, and there’s a TON of news happening surrounding the project.

The flick is scheduled to arrive in over 2,000 theaters this August 10, 2001. News Askew’s “Scooping The Monkey” website will be the definitive source for everything you could stand to know about the flick, including reports from the set, cast listings/announcements, reviews, articles, statistics, and, of course, news direct from Kevin himself. Currently, the website has the basic shell online with a cast listing and a few statistics, along with every piece of news that’s been reported on the flick so far. As the weeks go on, we’ll open up some new areas, enhance what we’ve got, and be there with you until the very second the flick hits theaters (and then some!).

Many of the graphics that you see on the new website were provided as part of our “Scooping The Monkey Logo Contest”. See below for a list of those whose wonderful artworks were chosen to represent the website. And then, don’t waste a second, get to our new SCOOPING THE MONKEY website. Set those bookmarks folks, as the new address is http://www.newsaskew.com/va5. Enjoy!

• We are proud to announce the winners in our month-long Scooping The Monkey logo contest. We received a TON of entries in the contest, and honestly, it was a TOUGH time deciding on a winner. In the end, we decided to still choose an official logo for the site (which you’ll find at the top center of all the main pages), but to use a few more of the entries as well. So, while our official logo contest does have a winner (who not only created a logo but a brand new “Jay & Silent Bob” FONT for the occasion, available soon at Files Askew), we also want to thank a few other folks whose stuff we thought was just too cool to pass up. You’ll find a new teaser graphic above that we used, a “Splash Page” graphic used as you enter the new page, a “Back To News Askew” graphic, and a graphic for the sidebar links header. Congratulations go out to all of you:

Thanks once again for making this by far the most popular contest in site history. We wish we had something for each and every one of you. Even so, all your graphics deserve to be seen, so we’ve created a page containing them all, with each graphic named after the entrant. So, check out the thumbnails, and take a look at what happens when a couple of graphically challenged webmasters ask a bunch of News Askew fans for a “Scooping The Monkey” graphic. Thanks again to all of you for entering.