Editorial cartoon style — Hector Rentier voice of Main Street Independent. Trained on 65 vetted prompts in the Nast / Daumier / Tenniel lineage. Signature elements: butt-face caricature for propaganda figures, peanut gallery crowd, spectacled gopher in lower frame, banner with quotation, heavy cross-hatching, engraved aesthetic on cream paper, single accent stroke in burnt orange. Activation token: hectorcartoon. Per Main Street Independent's Image Style Specification v1.6 §5.
Description
Initial release (V1). Trained on Flux.2 Klein 9B Base via Civitai AI-Toolkit with 65 vetted samples spanning 18 prompt variants. Epoch 10 selected after visual review across all 10 epochs — cleanest butt-face caricature, single-color compliance on multi-figure compositions confirmed. Reliable on broadcaster, anchor desk, rally, and conference-table registers; weaker on religious-right register (under-represented in training corpus). Recommended strength 0.85; works well in 0.6–1.0 range.