Winkie Costume Contest

From the earliest days of the Winkie Convention, members have been encouraged to show off their creativity with costuming. And prizes have been awarded for the most creative works.

• 1968 - Kevin Harris as "Ojo" and Noelle Harris as "Aunt Em".
  • Each of the 18 participants received a nicely framed snapshot of themselves in cOztume.

• 1969-1972 - not held

• 1973 - Brian Leonard as "the Woozy", Bronson Pinchot as "Hip Hopper the Champion", Jackie Vincent as "Glinda", Gerry Harris as "Chillywalla", Susan Leonard as "The Red Jinn" and Langley Brookes Brandt as "A Merry-Go-Round Mountain"

• 1974-1977 - not held

• 1978 - Dick Rutter as "The Tin Woodman" (1st place), other notables: Virginia Fowler as "Tip", Leslie Fowler as "Gureeda", and Sonia Brown as "General Jinjur's Guardian of the Gate"

• 1979 - Dick Rutter as "The Wizard"

• 1980 - Eric and Elizabeth Shanower as "Kabumbo"

• 1981 - Dick Rutter as "Tik-Tok"

• 1982
  • Adult Division - Dick Rutter as "The Braided Man"
  • Child Division - Zachariah Martinez as "The Cowardly Lion"

• 1983
  • Adult Division - Larry Irvine as "Jack Pumpkinhead"
  • Child Division - Zachary and Tierra Martinez as "Winged Monkeys"

• 1984
  • Adult Division - Co-winners: Virginia Fowler as "Handy Mandy" and Dick Rutter as "The Gump"
  • Child Division - Kyle McCulloch as "The Scarecrow"

• 1985
  • Adult Division - Troy Hall as "Grandpa"
  • Child Division - Elizabeth Chumbley as "The Sawhorse"

• 1986
  • Adult Division - Dick Rutter as "Cap'n Bill"
  • Child Division - Ginger Hall as "Mr. H.M. Wogglebug, T.E."

• 1987
  • Adult Division - Virginia Fowler as "Urtha"
  • Child Division - Alicia Lambertson as "Tin Woodman"

• 1988 - Nancy Fortner as "The Nome King"

• 1989
  • Adult Division - Eric Gjovaag as "Benny the Public Benefactor"
  • Child Division - Austin and Chelsea Worden as "Members of the Lollipop Guild and Lullaby League"

• 1990
  • Adult Division - Nancy Fortner as "Yookoohoo"
  • Child Division - Collin Helfrich as "The A-B-Sea Serpent"
  • Under-two Division - Nicholas Griffin as "Munchkin Baby"

• 1991
  • Adult Division - Dick Rutter as "Gwig the Mangaboo" and Christopher Wayne Buckley as "Emperor Chang Wang Woe"
  • Child Division - Nicholas Griffen as "Lollipop Kid" and Collin Helfrich as "King Kleaver"

• 1992
  • Adult Division - Elizabeth Chumbley as the "Diamond Swan"
  • Child Division - Sean LaTour as "Button Bright"

• 1993
  • Adult Division - Susan Hall as "Pigasus"
  • Child Division - Collin Helfrich as "The Bookman"

• 1994
  • Adult Division - Dick Rutter as "The Frogman"
  • Child Division - Brittany Rizzo as "The Patchwork Girl"

• 1995
  • Adult Division - Robin Helfrich as "Godwin"
  • Child Division - Mathew McMaster as "Winged Monkey"

• 1996
  • Adult Division - Dick Rutter as "Animated Tree"
  • Child Division - Brittany Rizzo as "The Twister"

• 1997
  • Adult Division - Virginia Fowler as "Cross-Patch"
  • Child Division - Matthew Goldsmith as "The Hungry Tiger"

• 1998
  • Adult Division - Herm Bieber as "Dorothy Gale of Kansas"
  • Child Division - Lea Thorin as "Princess Ozma"

• 1999
  • Adult Division - Virginia Fowler/Marilyn Plutaeas "Nikobob and Zella", Stephen Koontz as "The Scarecrow", and Beverly Mendheim as "The Dark Gloma"
  • Child Division - Veronica Maund as "A Winged Monkey"

• 2001
  • Adult Division - Herm Bieber as "John Dough"
  • Child Division - Ruth Bieber as "Chick the Cherub" and Nathan Hollister as "a Wild Wheeler"

• 2002
  • Adult Division - Virginia Fowler as "Soothsayer"
  • Child Division - Katie Gladson as "Dorothy" and Veronica Maund as "Toto"

• 2003
  • Adult Division - Dick Rutter as "King Terribus of Spor"
  • Child Division - Melissa Hollister as "Cayke the Cookie Cook"

• 2005
  • Adult Division - Susan Hall as "Glinda"
  • Child Division - Madeline and Griffin Knutson as "The Wizard and the Tornado"
  • Honorable Mention - Karyl Carlson as "Miss Piggy as the Wicked Witch"
  • Grand Prize - Melissa Hollister and family as "Princess Langwidere and her heads"

• 2006
  • Overall Winner - Karyl Carlson as "Patsy Doyle" from Aunt Jane's Nieces"

• 2008
  • Child Division - Mykel Rankin as the Braided Man

• 2009
  • Adult Division - Eric Shanower as "The Shaggy Man"
  • Child Division - Robby Gessel as "Nick Chopper"

• 2010 - Susan Hall as "The Nome King"