Idea #94: Wikipedia surfing

Pick a topic. Any topic, really, as long there exists a Wikipedia page about it.

Draw a cartoon or a comic strip about that topic. How exactly you choose to do this is up to you, but the strip must have something to do with the topic.

Now, go to the Wikipedia article, and click on one of the links to other articles. You can choose the one you like the best or you can pick one at random, I guess you will get the best result if you actually choose one. But you must pick one of the articles that the Wikipedia article you started with links to.

Your next strip or cartoon must be about that topic.

Repeat.

For example, let’s say I start with the article on Webcomic, so the first strip is about webcomics. I scroll down and find a link to the article on the National Book Award, and decide to make the next strip about the National Book Award. From that page I find a link to Fiction, so my next strip is about fiction. The article on fiction links to lots of literary terms, but also to the article on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, so I’ll make my next strip about Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Apparently the book was banned at a school in New Hampshire, so I can draw the next strip about New Hampshire.

Bonus points for actually weaving these topics together into a story.

Of course, it doesn’t have to be Wikipedia, you can do the same thing with TVTropes or any other website full of articles linking to each other all over the place.

94 down, 6 to go.

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