2010 April

Here’s another one of those ideas you can’t do on your own: You need a group of friends to do this. And it’s a very experimental idea, so the results could become pretty horrible. But I think it would be a fun experience to do something like this. For the purpose of this example, let’s [...]

As I’ve mentioned earlier, comics are great for explaining stuff. You don’t have to be very capable of reading, you certainly don’t have to understand the lingo,1 and you can get a better understanding of how things work simply by recognizing what objects look like. While I’ve earlier suggested using this as a recipe for [...]

Okay, I’ve worked up a bit of a delay, so let’s get straight to business here. I’m sure you’ve all seen a newspaper cartoon. A comic or a single gag printed in a newspaper, which makes jokes about current news. It’s a classic recipe, really. Have you ever considered doing one of those, but with [...]

Have you seen the movie Dirty Dancing? Have you ever tried explaining the plot of the movie Dirty Dancing to someone who hasn’t seen the movie? If so, have you struggled trying to explain to them that it’s not a dirty movie? I mean, come on. If the title wasn’t bad enough on its own, [...]

Idea number 38. Which is a considerably larger number than 37. Make a comic strip about a cartoonist who’s trying to make a living out of creating comics. Yes, I know, that has been done a zillion times. Autobiographical comics are everywhere, comics pretending to be autobiographies are even more common, and the webcartoonist is [...]