100 ideas in 100 days
This work by Olaf Moriarty Solstrand is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
What’s this?
March 17, 2010, I wrote a blogpost here which started with the following words:
This is an experiment intended to help me get this blog back on track. I have no idea if it will be successful, and I somehow doubt it, but I want to try: Can I, with no other help than my own imagination, come up with a hundred decent comic ideas in a hundred days? I start today, which means to fulfill my goal I have to have a hundred updates by June 24. I’ll give it a go.
I assume most of them will be plot ideas, but some of these ideas will also be ideas on new ways to make comics. And I haven’t read all the comics in the world, so I assume that some of these ideas will already be in use somewhere. If they are, I trust that you will let me know in the comments where to find them.
So… yeah. From March 17 to June 24 2010, I tried to come up with one new comic idea each day. And since I’ve now written a hundred ideas, each dated at some time between March 17 and June 24, I guess I can say that the project was a success!
Can I use one of your ideas?
Sure you can! That’s why I’m writing them here. You can use my ideas for free, even in commercial projects. All that I ask in return is that you credit me for the idea (no, that doesn’t mean you have to put “Created by Me and Olaf Moriarty Solstrand” in your header, just give me a small mention in an annotation or on the comic’s “about” page or anywhere). Also, while not really a requirement, I would love it if you told me about it if you used one of my ideas. That’s basically all the rules I set – if you can live with that, feel free to use any ideas you like.
List of ideas
- The comics tree collab
- Second life
- Stage comics
- Backwards collab
- Before the storm
- Survival comics
- You’re the hero
- SMS
- Raindrops keep falling
- Modern superpowers
- Languages apart
- The butler did it
- Juxtaposed problems
- Time capsule
- Lenny the Lightbulb
- This story is a lie
- Calendar comics
- Changing the middle
- 20th century Christ
- Glasses
- One life a day
- Captain Geriatrix to the rescue
- Comics, Twitter-style
- Chain letter collab
- World’s best mom
- Secondary no more
- Comics in 3D
- The Two Sentences Challenge
- Death predictions
- Word Jumble Challenge
- 15th century sitcom
- Sex change
- If walls had ears
- Poirot did it
- Puzzle while you read
- Ashes to ashes
- Everything you need to know about the world
- Cartoonist struggling for survival
- Not porn
- Delayed cartoons
- Instruction manuals
- Non sequiteur collab
- Layers of the world
- Loving God
- Restroom comics
- One more day
- A world with no animals
- Three star McDonald’s
- Just like in the movies
- Clubhouse crazies
- Superhero driving school
- The apocalypse nobody believed in
- Color my feelings
- The Wikicomic Project
- Identities
- Connect the dots
- Add a soundtrack
- You have no free will
- Talking to yourself
- Backwards time flow
- Screenshot crossing
- Panel border secrets
- America’s Next Top Accountant
- Opposite of anthropomorphic
- Imaginary sports comics
- Travel guides
- Redefining “nerd”
- Across the phone lines
- Dice of art
- Recipes as comics
- The conversation
- Battle of the balloons
- The interactive worldwide story race
- Simplistic vs. realistic
- Everything could be a comic
- A backstory for the privileged
- 404 Not Found
- The user variables make the comic
- The user variables make the comic, but in a different way than idea #78
- Fake problem solvers
- Song title challenge
- Tut Ankh All Night
- One year a day
- The devil’s advocate
- Print-only bonus comics
- Sidekick club
- Starting a company
- Board game comics
- Computers can do everything
- Unfortunate juxtaposition
- The hero dies (at the beginning)
- Bedtime story with two narrators
- National bankruptcy
- Wikipedia surfing
- One frame per T-shirt
- Character collab
- Adapting by omitting
- Playing on the downsides
- Cigarette superhero
- Death/birth
And don’t forget: If you have something interesting to say about one of these ideas, please write a comment!
Congratulations on this incredible feat, Olaf! I absolutely think that this is one of the more impressive things I’ve seen done on a blog, and I find myself in absolute awe of the sheer viability of your 100 ideas. I might not be a fan of every single one of them, but at your best, I think you managed to trot out some truly spectacular things, and at your worst, the ideas were nothing short of “huh, that _might_ work…”.
Again, my most sincere contrafibularities. Well done, sir!
Superior thinking denmotsarted above. Thanks!
I was just talking to my big brother all about this the other day. I also noticed an article on that over at the bowa internet site. Isnt it comical how these things show up in bunches. to be truthful, it is kind of menacing.
I linked to this page here: http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?29535-Adventure-Plots-Up-For-Grabs&p=4741049&viewfull=1#post4741049 .
You’re awesome!
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