The premise of this contest is simple: the text of your comic strip must follow the rules of a form of poetry.  Basic rhyming is of course welcome, and if you really want to get wacky, you can go for a sonnet, clarihew, ode, haiku, ruba'i, limerick, et cetera.  Of course, if it's a really weird form of poetry, you might want to mention the type of poem you're using in your title or in the post or something.

No other special restrictions will apply, except for maybe that one about Photoshop that nobody really cares about.  Judging will commence on or after March 18th.

IT'S RHYME TIME!!!

So... that means by a complete set of coincidence, I can post an old comic that follows these guide lines...

/comics/Beeko180/516735/

/comics/mandingo/516989/

/comics/four_legged_tripod/516990/

http://www.stripcreator.com/make.php

/comics/ragu4u/516995/

/comics/RandomComicLayoutGuy/517009/

/comics/mandingo/517013/

/comics/mandingo/517014/

/comics/mandingo/517015/

/comics/mandingo/517016/

/comics/edoggydog/517018/

/comics/Beeko180/517024/

/comics/ragu4u/517053/

517054

517055

/comics/Beeko180/517066/

/comics/RandomComicLayoutGuy/517083/

/comics/edoggydog/517121/

/comics/four_legged_tripod/517131/

/comics/ragu4u/517134/

/comics/bigworm/517227/

This was written awhile ago, but I still like it.

/comics/biped/517253/

/comics/RandomComicLayoutGuy/517264/

A comic I made in 2001 for contest #30, which also works for this contest! Weird thing is that I went looking for the CC30 thread and it doesn't seem to exist anymore as far as I can tell. Weird.

/comics/ladyjdotnet/16863/

/comics/bigworm/517403/

I made a limerick song, if that counts as etc.

/comics/Beeko180/517476/

I'm gonna be a complete dickweed and post actual poems I wrote for an actual poetry class I actually attended.

/comics/ArtemisStrong/517619/

/comics/ArtemisStrong/517623/

/comics/biped/461470/

/comics/HCRoyall/517686/

(K' sup people, this has nothing to do with comics, whatsoever)

i just started a blog and i think u guys will like it, so check it out. it's on blogger, and it's called r'j's blog. here's a link

http://prajjwalblog.blogspot.com/

P.S. be sure to leave a comment on my posts, and become a follower

P.S.S. just for u guys, if you leave a comment on my blog, or be a follower, u can leave me a message on stripcreator to promote ur comics, and i'll do it on my blog if the comic's are appropriate, just don't forget to give me your google,yahoo or twitter username and your username on stripcreator so i can make sure who to give the comment to. ;)

(K' sup contestants, this has everything to do with this comic competition, and hence is 5000% more appropriate in this thread than the aforementioned blog plug)

i just precided over this here comics competition and i think u guys liked it. it's called CC471: Poetry Slam, and ur lookin at it rite now. here's a deadline:

3/18/2011 - 2 MORROW NITE!!!

P.S. be sure to submit ur final entries by this date, and become a contestant

P.S.S. just for teh blog guy, if you leave an advert about ur blog, or wutever, u can read teh fukkin forum thread and put it someplace more appropriate, just don't forget that nobody carez about blogz anymore anywayz so ur not doin urself any faverz by pluggin it in teh wrong thread kthxbye ;)

/comics/bigworm/517841/

I decided when I made this contest that if anyone did one of my two favorite forms of poetry (a clarihew or a sonnet), they would automatically win (or get bonus points in the event that more than one person used them).  Since nobody used either, I will instead award the three runners up with clarihews, and the winner with a sonnet:

/comics/four_legged_tripod/517131/

four_legged_tripod
Gets the nod
Best in show for haiku
I get his insult for I am not the boy in blue

/comics/kaufman/517054/

Kaufman
Is a funny man
His Vulcan had me laughing
When he stretched out that limerick like word-based taffy

/comics/mandingo/517016/

Mandingo
Uses racist lingo
In a way that makes you think...
...but not in "Ted, the guy who rhymes, masturbates, then grabs a drink"

And the winner of a sonnet (and also the rights to CC472) is...

/comics/biped/461470/

Can Biped win?  You best believe he can!
He'll choose the timeless muse of Dr. Seuss
And chronicle attempts to get a man
To eat some pubes from British Guy's caboose.
He does not like the crackwhore, Pubic Hare!
No books or tomes will tempt his appetite.
He says, "Not here, not there, not anywhere!"
Does this disclude a Brit's ass?  Well, it might...
So is the bearded man a pubivore?
We'll never know; there is no Panel Four.

Thanks so much for the beautiful poem.  I don't think I've ever been named the winner of a CC in such a lovely and lyrical manner.  Except maybe for the time someone wrote: "Roses are red, violets are blue, your comic won because I chose it at random."

Also thanks to four-legged tripod for suggesting that I enter that particular comic in the contest. 

I'll post a new contest as soon as I think of an idea, although history has shown that my comics contest ideas are usually among the worst ever conceived.  So I'm going to think about this one really, really hard until my head hurts.

I too am touched by my poetic tribute.  So I will offer a bonus comic in the series...

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