`cartoons/queue/2026-09-25.json`

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{
  "date": "2026-09-25",
  "generated_at": "2026-09-25T09:15:06.047Z",
  "count": 6,
  "briefs": [
    {
      "id": "fog-bank-schedule",
      "title": "The Fog That Keeps Office Hours",
      "brief": "A single bold SVG illustration: an INVENTED coastal town's fog bank rolls in and out on a suspiciously punctual 9-to-5 schedule, complete with a little fog 'clock-out' each evening. Click to advance the hour; caption tracks whether the fog is 'on the clock.'",
      "category": "weather",
      "slug": "20260925-fog-bank-schedule",
      "status": "failed"
    },
    {
      "id": "tiebreaker-overtime-spiral",
      "title": "The Game That Wouldn't End",
      "brief": "A three-panel SVG strip: an INVENTED rec-league match keeps going to sudden-death overtime so many times the scoreboard runs out of digits and switches to Roman numerals. Click to add another overtime; plot twist swaps which invented sport it is (kickball, bocce, cornhole).",
      "category": "sports",
      "slug": "20260925-tiebreaker-overtime-spiral",
      "status": "failed"
    },
    {
      "id": "earmark-tug-of-war",
      "title": "The Earmark Tug-of-War",
      "brief": "A single bold SVG illustration: an INVENTED rope-pull where each team is a caricatured interest group hauling a giant dollar-sign log toward their own tiny truck. Dragging changes who's winning and rewrites the caption. Light/dark toggle.",
      "category": "politics",
      "slug": "20260925-earmark-tug-of-war",
      "status": "failed"
    },
    {
      "id": "sunset-clause-sundial",
      "title": "The Sunset Clause That Never Sets",
      "brief": "A single SVG metaphor: an INVENTED law's 'sunset clause' as a sundial where the shadow keeps getting renewed by an official running out with a bigger gnomon before dusk ever arrives. Interactive: drag the sun, shadow always gets 'extended'.",
      "category": "politics",
      "slug": "20260925-sunset-clause-sundial",
      "status": "failed"
    },
    {
      "id": "red-tape-maze",
      "title": "The Red Tape Labyrinth",
      "brief": "A three-panel SVG strip: a citizen enters an INVENTED permit office as a straightforward hallway; each panel the hallway visibly grows a new looping detour of literal red tape. A 'shortcut' button always adds MORE tape. Good-natured, invented office.",
      "category": "politics",
      "slug": "20260925-red-tape-maze",
      "status": "failed"
    },
    {
      "id": "snow-drift-property-line",
      "title": "The Drift That Knows the Deed",
      "brief": "A three-panel SVG strip: an INVENTED snowstorm politely piles snow exactly along one homeowner's property line and nowhere else, panel by panel building a suspiciously tidy drift wall. Plot twist swaps which invented neighbor benefits.",
      "category": "weather",
      "slug": "20260925-snow-drift-property-line",
      "status": "failed"
    }
  ]
}