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| PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | THEMES | LINKS TO THIS CONTEST | WINNER | LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later) |
| July 16, 1995 | 122 | THE UNKINDEST CUTE OF ALL | Come up with a new story line for "Peanuts", some plot development or new character that will put the strip back on the road to relevance. | COM | Text file | Contest image | ||
| February 4, 1996 | 151 | STRIP MINING | Come up with a concept for a new, controversial strip to replace an existing one in The Post. | COM WAS | Text file | Contest image | ||
| June 13, 1999 | 326 | COMIC RELIEF | Look at today's comics pages, select one panel and one panel only from any comic strip, and rewrite the dialogue. | COM | Text file | Contest image | ||
| July 18, 1999 | 331 | DRAWING ON CREATIVITY | Come up with an idea for a fictional central character for a comic strip based in Washington, D.C., and the environs. Describe your character in as much detail as you wish, and give the strip a name. | WAS COM | Text file | Contest image | ||
| August 1, 1999 | 333 | GET A LOAD OF THIS TA-TA | Submit episodes for the three winning strips from Week 331. There is no next week's contest. | COM | Text file | Contest image | ||
| October 7, 2001 | 422 (LXXXIX) | Taught Language | Come up with lessons learned from (1) the movies, (2) popular songs, (3) romance novels or (4) the comics page. | MOV MUS LIT COM | Text file | Contest image | ||
| May 26, 2002 | 455 (CXXII) | Comixing | Create new comic characters by crossing two existing characters, then describe the character. | COM | Text file | Contest image | ||
| July 7, 2002 | 461 (CXXVIII) | Punch Us Again | Take any comic from the daily Washington Post during the next week and make it better by changing the contents of the final word balloon. | WAS COM | Text file | Contest image | ||
| November 26, 2006 | 690 | Funnies: How Time Flies | Pull Billy of "The Family Circus" -- or any of his comic strip neighbors in The Washington Post -- out of his time warp to a different age, era or place, and provide a short storyline or dialogue or caption. | WAS COM | Text file | Contest image | ||
| October 3, 2009 | 837 | Strip Search | Combine two comic strips that appear in The Washington Post or at washingtonpost.com/comics and describe the results. | WAS COM | Text file | Post e-version | ||
| June 19, 2016 | 1180 | Strip search! | Find a line of text from any comic strip or panel that appears on the Post's comics pages or on washingtonpost.com/comics, dated anywhere between June 16 and June 27, and either (a) supply a question that the original line could answer, or (b) follow it with your own line of dialogue or reply. (Conversational text) | COM QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
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