The winner: Dave Neil, Idaho Falls, USA

SPECIAL MENTIONS:

“The cat in the hat comes back — with a vengeance!”
– Deckard Canine, Washington, DC, USA

“I’ll wave my magic wand and—no more babies!”
– Jim Lane, St. Augustine, Florida, USA

“Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a tonsil out of my hat!”
– Phatchick, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA

“Surgery is like magic. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t.”
– Jeffrey Angus, Ranger, Texas, USA

“No strip today. Doc Rat is in hiding from the Doc Slasher.”
– :M Henry, Franklin, Tennessee, USA

“And now, for my next trick…. I’m gonna remove your spleen!”
– Kim Squire, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

“For my next trick, I’ll make your tonsils disappear!”
– Jeremy Ryan, Somerville, MA, USA

“The name’s Scalpell. Speculum Scalpell. Secret Agent 8-1/2. My sidekick, Inspector 86, left a note here somewhere.”
– DaveBro, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

“Would you believe that before I took that correspondence course in plastic surgery I used to be a rabbit?”
– Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner, Oak Park, Michigan, USA

“Anesthesia? No, abracadabra!”
– Arthur McBain, Kennewick, Washington, USA

“For my next trick, I’ll get your tongue!”
– Jon Wilson, Livermore, California, USA

“And soon you’ll meet my brother – he’s the catgut.”
– Jenner