100 ideas, final thoughts: I did it!
Okay, last night I submitted the 100th and final idea of the “100 ideas in 100 days”. Today is Day 100, which means that I’ve completed the project successfully.
Obviously, not all of the ideas are very good. I knew that would be the case when I started this. Still, I think this qualifies as a success. It has been a really fun challenge for me, and for those of you who’ve read the ideas as I wrote them, I hope you enjoyed at least a couple of them.
If you just tuned in: The purpose of this project was to come up with one hundred ideas for comics in one hundred days. Some of them are plot ideas, some of them are suggestions on how to spice up your existing comic, some of them are ideas on working together, some of them are ideas for wacky experiments and some of them tackle the medium of comics and suggests ways we can do it differently. But they’re all ideas.
You can read a list of all 100 ideas here.
Some statistics
I didn’t always manage to write one update each day. Real life came in the way, and often I found my self far behind the schedule. At the most – May 25-26 – I was sixteen ideas behind schedule. The last day I was actually on schedule (before my five-idea-extravaganza yesterday) was April 16, at idea #31.
Of course, this means I had to write more ideas other days. Broken down, I had one day where I wrote five ideas (June 23), one day where I wrote four ideas (June 18), four days where I wrote three ideas, 23 days where I wrote two ideas, 35 days when I wrote one idea – and 36 days without a single update. Yeah, sorry about those. But I kind of expected something like that to happen. I knew I wouldn’t be able to stick to schedule and actually write an idea every single day. But I managed to keep an average of one idea per day, and I think that’s pretty wicked awesome.
Thank you
Honestly, I don’t know if I’d actually finished this project if it wasn’t for all the great comments I got along the way. So thanks to all of you. I can’t mention you all… Hey, what am I saying? Of course I can.
Thank you, Alexander. Thank you, BoardgameBeast. Thank you, Bookn. Thank you, chops. Thank you, David Morgan-Mar. Thank you, Eirik. Thank you, Gar. Thank you, Izzy Kinrys. Thank you, Jon Magne Kleiven. Thank you, Josh. Thank you, karina. Thank you, Loki. Thank you, Mamma. Thank you, Matthew. Thank you, Mechanical. Thank you, MultiversalInk. Thank you, Niha. Thank you, obdormio. Thank you, Ola Bismo. Thank you, somebody. Thank you, PTR. Thank you, tanketom. Thank you, Thom Achenar. Thank you, Timothy Mueller-Harder. Thank you, tonny. And thank you, xxobot. I couldn’t have done it without you all.
And thanks to Gary Tyrrell, Delos Woodruff and David Morgan-Mar for blogging about the project so that more people found it.
I should probably also thank those of you who retweeted my ideas on Twitter or liked them on Facebook… but I have no complete lists of who you are, sorry. Thanks anyway, though.
What’s next?
No, my next project is not 365 ideas in 365 days 
I’ve realized in the last hundred days that blogging can be fun, so I’ll probably keep up trying to post regular updates here. By “regular” I don’t mean once a day or anything like that – but I’ll try to write something clever once a week.
I have some ideas for a big project where the hundred ideas I’ve come up with here could come in handy and be integrated. I still don’t want to reveal what that project is, but if all of my plans work out, you should be able to read about it here this autumn. It’s not my top priority, though, I have other comics-related projects I want to work on first.
There’s also a chance that I actually try realizing a couple of these ideas myself, of course. There’s a couple that I really like in this mix. We’ll see.
Anyway, I will probably try organizing the ideas a bit better in the next couple of days. Give them tags or subcategories or something so that it’s easier to find exactly the ideas you’re looking for. Stay tuned.
But for now, thanks for reading – this has been fun!
And thank you and congratulations to you too. You’ve come up with some wonderful ideas, and I hope that someone makes all of them. I’m really a comic reader, rather than a comic writer, but if I ever jump the fence, I know where to start looking.
1Thanks – feel free to use anything you may find useful.
2Many, many congratulations to you once again. This was truly mind-bogglingly impressive, and I am, as I should be, quite in awe.
3Hey, ideas are everywhere, there’s nothing mind-boggling about them! But thanks.
4Congratulations! Now do 100 more.
There are a lot of great ideas here. I might use some of them at some point, or at least parts of them. And I hope someone else does too, there are so many great ideas here that I’d love to see done someday. Good job!
Igjen, gratulerer! ^^
5Takk skal du ha!
One thing you could do if you want to see some of these ideas used: Tip your friends about them! If you know lots of other cartoonists and you know they’re struggling with coming up with ideas, send them here! My ideas are free for picking.
100 more? Forget it!
6Aww, but you were doing so well.. How about one idea every now and then?
And I’m writing a journal about it on my DeviantArt, so that at least my 5 watchers will know ^^
7yes, it’d be awesome to see some of these ideas relized
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