Contest: Your Favourite Book, in 4 Panels

On Wednesday's show we heard from author Jeff Lemire, whose graphic novel Essex County is one of the 5 Canada Reads finalists. It's the first-ever graphic novel to make the Canada Reads finals, and to celebrate that fact we've launched a contest. The prize? A book bag packed with the 5 finalist books for 2011.

To enter the contest, you have to get a little creative: draw or otherwise create a 4-panel comic that summarizes your favourite book. Any book at all, as long as you summarize it in 4 panels.

Here are a few great entries we've received so far:

From Chloe Grace: Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut:

From Deanna Toxopeus: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive:

From 10-year-old Angus Edmundson: Silverwing by Kennth Oppel

From grade 9 student Harry Edmundson-Cornell: The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester:

 

From C Smithers: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell:

 

 

From 17-year-old Ian Martin: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald:

 

From Patricia Cameron: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer:

 

From Stephen Halchuk: The Odyssey by Homer:

From David Wightman: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad:

 

From 10-year-old Oscar Dennis: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl:

 

Inspired by these entries? Want to try your own? Email your entry to allinaday@cbc.ca -- you have until Friday at noon to do so.

UPDATE: We have our winners! Congrats to grand prize winner Ian Martin, and runners-up Patricia Cameron and David Wightman.