You thought it was all over, but it ain’t! Except it sort of is. But here are some late entries for The End I’ve received. I could have posted these much sooner if I had been better organised but I wasn’t so apologies to the artists for not getting these up sooner. But never mind all that, enjoy these!

Ste Hitchen:

This wonderful, full colour comic comes courtesy of the impeccable Ste Hitchen. You should really check out his Ste-Regular webcomic, colourful slices of autobio comics every darned week. Fun fact: Ste lives in a post office! AND Ste even sent me this bonus sketch via the magic of Twitter:

Graham Johnson:

This is probably best explained if I just link to this set of photographs from Sweden last year. My comics about our trip to the Swedish Small Press Expo start here. Thanks Graham, I like the Scott Pilgrim style point in panel 3.

Haroon Mushtaq:

Haroon is a good friend of mine who has said “Put that in your Everyday!” to me perhaps every time we have ever met. I tried my best to squeeze him into the comic before it ended but he’s such a big character that I couldn’t. He will have to console himself and wipe his tears away with his spare copies of Batman & Robin #13 in which he appears as a police man.

So, that’s all the alternate endings as far as I know, apart from my friend Rich’s ending which I will post when it’s done next year. I’ll be making a special section of the site for these soon(ish) so keep an eye out for that. Thank you again to everyone who sent these in, I loved them.

With the last comic done and the wonderful avalanche of alternate endings all posted, I can now write about what’s next for The Everyday and what’s next for me as an artist.

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For the most part I’ve loved drawing The Everyday, getting better as an artist, learning about my approach to comics and writing, getting comments every week from readers and meeting other artists through it has all been a big part of my life for the last 3 and a bit years. So now that the last comic is up, I’m not about to forget the whole thing and move on.

For a start there’s still Collection 4 to put together and print. I’ve no idea what I’m going to draw for the cover yet but I know there’s going to be a lot of really fun back up material as well as the last 50 comics. I should have this ready for the MCM Expo in October.

I also want to put together a book of The Everyday, all 200 comics in one place. I will approach a few small publishers very, very soon about this though I’m willing to self publish it too. I’m very excited about this and I’ll let you all know about it as soon as I can. I’m hoping to get the book on sale in the first half of next year.

I’ve got some interesting ideas for some new merchandise too which I’m thinking of including in a pre-order bundle for the book. As well as new badges and a mini comic of my Hourly Comic Day comics, I’m thinking about clothing but not your normal t-shirt designs. For now let’s just say polo shirts and slip-on trainers!

And the site itself will be getting fiddled with soon, as I re-jig it to be easily understood by new people coming to a webcomic that’s already finished.

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Now that I no longer have the weekly deadline of drawing The Everyday, the theory goes that I will have more time to devote to my other, long running projects. The biggest of these is easily Blood Blokes, a 7 page preview of which is up on my main website’s blog.

This slacker vampire story set in Manchester at the turn of the Millennium will be my first full-length comic series and will run for 6 issues. Though most people know me for my autobio comic work, I’m sure this fictional work won’t be too far removed from the everyday observational style that I’ve developed. The life of young vampires set against the trials of sharing a house and modern city life is where a lot of the humour comes from. I can also assure you that my vampires don’t twinkle, fly or run faster than the speed of light. Blood Blokes #1 will be released in one way or another at Thought Bubble this November.

Add my main blog to your RSS reader to keep informed about future Blood Blokes news.

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I will not be abandoning autobiographical work completely however. I’m looking forward to drawing more longer autobio tales like ‘The Tears of Tommy Cooper’ which I contributed to the Solipsistic Pop 2 anthology earlier this year. Recently esteemed comic critic Paul Gravett reviewed the anthology in his ‘Great British Comics Now’ round up and said:

“Adam Cadwell confirms himself further as simply one of our most acute autobiographical stripwriters currently active.”

Which needless to say I was pretty happy about. I’ll be contributing another story to Solipsistic Pop 3 which will be a child-friendly volume and will also be released at Thought Bubble in November. When I have enough short autobio stories I’m sure I’ll put them together in a print comic.

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The last project I’m working on is called Stiffs, a zombie comedy comic set in Wales for which I am providing the colours and lettering. We’ve just sent the pitch package off to Image and will hopefully hear back soon. Here’s the mock cover:

You can follow the comics progress on the Stiffs Facebook page or on my blog until the official Stiffs website is set up.

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And as for you guys, what are you going to do now that my face won’t be on the internet every week? Well, I was going to direct you all to follow Ellerbisms and Bellen! but both have hopped on the ‘quit your webcomic’ bandwagon and have announced that they’re ending too. If you haven’t read them already get on over to their sites and enjoy them just as they are both winding up with their final stories.

Readers of Kayla’s Galavant will soon be getting a weekly dose of my face as I’m soon to make my appearance in her travel diary. For those who have been nosy about my personal life, which if you notice I rarely touch upon in my own comic, Kayla will write about us meeting, dating and living together.

Other autobio webcomics I’d recommend are Inkdick which despite it’s name is brimming with gentle observation of daily life’s highs and lows, and of course the ever present American Elf which, along with Harvey Pekar, was a big influence on The Everyday and just about every other autobio webcomic out there.

I’ll also give a nod towards the wonderful work of Luke Ferenc Pearson, a very talented young British artist. His comics about music festivals and discussing bands ring so true that I liked with his work right away. I hope he makes a lot more.

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So, don’t unsubscribe to The Everyday quite yet, I’ll be posting news about Collection 4 and changes to the site really soon and please subscribe to my main blog for news of my other comics.

Thanks for reading, see you soon!

Adam

I still can’t get over how many entries I’ve had for The End, I’m thrilled to see so many of my readers sending me their endings and of course seeing how they all draw my beloved face. Here are 12 (12!) more entries including 3 (3!) from my friend Dan.

This is rest of the endings I’ve received so far but feel free to keep sending them in, I’ll wait to the end of the day and see how many I’ve got and post more either tomorrow or on Monday. Also if you’ve sent me one and I’ve not posted it yet, email me again about it. Details below.

John Allison:

Oh John, always with the vengeance! Mr John Allison was in #130 but likes to pretend that it never happened. Don’t worry John, I’ll make you a vampire in Blood Blokes. I think you’d suit a cape.

Dan Baxter:

I was completely surprised when my friend Dan sent me a comic for The End, and even more surprised when I scrolled down the email and discovered 2 more. That first one cracked me up. Dan has always had a wry, barbed sense of humour and I think it comes across really well in the third of his entries. Either that or he hates me.

Shieka Lugtu:

Another thing The Everyday has been missing is rampaging dinosaur women, thanks Shieka!

Adam Everett Beck:

Adam Beck aka King Adbeck has been a regular commenter on The Everyday which I’ve always appreciated. I’m extra pleased to see his take on the ending and I’m chuffed to see the old Spidey bag make another appearance.

Joe Glass:

Joe is referencing the very first Everyday here and getting Kayla and Little Adam in there too wraps it all up really well. Joe Glass happens to be one of the writers of one of my upcoming comic projects. Read more about ‘Stiffs’ in the next blog post

Eric Wirjanata:

You can only keep a secret so long.

Lee McEvoy:

This surreal adventure kind of reminds me of the 1982 film Forbidden Zone featuring Danny Elfman as Satan and some midgets. I can only imagine the outrage that would ensue if a Miss Webcomic Contest was announced, hee hee.

David Parkinson:

And I thought I drew my head big! David is a Manchester based Illustrator with a love of background design. Here he’s drawn part of the area of Manchester that Kayla and I have just moved to. Cheers David.

Benedict Molefe Jones:

I met Ben back in February at the We Are Words + Pictures Drop in + Draw event, and was instantly taken with his work. If he keeps going with comics, I think he’ll be one to watch.

Lizzy Greenpeppers:

And lastly we have this wonderful entry from Lizzy Greenpeppers. She said she was almost too shy to send it in but I’m glad she did as I think it’s great.

If you’d like to send me your ending to The Everyday please try and get it in over the weekend, the latest I’ll post more entries is Monday 16th of August so let’s say the very last deadline is midnight Sunday 15th August. Send your comics to adam(at)adamcadwell.com, in black and white or colour as a 600 pixels wide jpeg at 72 pixels/inch.

Thanks so much for all the entries, I’ve chuckled at every one of them and it feels good to get such a warm response from my friends and readers. Cheers guys!