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Second Challenge
For our second cartoon challenge, we are asking our top five finalists to create a color Sunday-style comic strip and a character sheet:
1. The Sunday-style comic should be approximately 12.8 inches wide by 5.875 inches high. The artist can work in whatever size they wish, as long as the work can be reduced to these proportions. This space can be broken up into many panels, or include just one panel -- whatever the cartoonist prefers.
2. The character sheet (a standard in every real cartoon syndication packet) should include descriptions that will give readers a fuller sense of the comic. The 8.5-by-11-inch sheet should provide a short bio of the comic strip's main characters -- or, if it is a gag/single panel comic strip, describe the cartoon's comic philosophy.
Here are examples of a Sunday strip and a character sheet from Barney and Clyde, written by Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten and his son Dan Weingarten, with art by David Clark (courtesy of The Washington Post Writers Group):
