The Everyday #200!
I think, and correct me if I’m wrong here, that this is the first time I’ve mentioned Vimto* (my all time favourite drink) in The Everyday. I guess I couldn’t let the comic end without getting it in there. Vimto, I love you.
Well, we’re finally here, folks! Comic number 200. The End. Did it end like you thought it would? With a huge drawing of my face?
It might have taken me nearly 4 years to get here, and during the last 50 strips it seemed to take forever but I guess I did it and I’d like to thank each and every one of you who have read my comic. I’m well aware in the world of webcomics mine is little known with a modest readership but that has always been fine with me. I never started doing this to make a living off t-shirt sales or have famous guest artists, I did it because I wanted to get better at drawing comics, and looking back at the first few I like to think that I can safely say that I’ve learnt a lot. I’m trying to avoid sounding like I’ve won an award or something but I do want to thank everyone who has let me draw them in this comic, anyone who’s ever linked to me and every single person who has left a comment. You all made it a lot easier to keep making comics of my life for all this time.
See below for lots of alternate endings by readers and comic artist friends and a little later in the day there’ll be a longer blog post about the future of The Everyday in print and what comic I’ll be working on after this, i.e Blood Blokes.
*If you’re thinking “What’s Vimto!?!”, and if you’re from anywhere other than Northern England you probably are, then there’s more info on it’s Wiki page.
August 12th, 2010 at 9:45 am
Dude, this is perfect. Sad to see it go. Manages to feel conclusive, but not abrupt? if that makes any sense… Anyway, CONGRATS!
August 12th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Congratulations on reaching #200, but sad to see it go. Could you not get Little Adam to work on it in your absence? It’d be just like the regular strip but everybody’s teeny and floats.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Ha – an ex-girlfriend once tried to fry me with how well she was doing by pointing out that her new bf knew the secret recipe for Vimto (he worked at the plant in Chorley)
August 12th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Bye bye Adam Cadwell. Bye bye.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Great ending! Goodbye The Everyday, I’ll always remember you fondly
August 12th, 2010 at 11:43 am
That’ll do pig, that’ll do.
August 12th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
ha! I was going to make the same comment Marc did!
August 12th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Haha why wasn’t that a comic?! I might have to do just that.
August 12th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
And heres to another 200 years!
August 12th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
It really is a sad sad day. How will I stalk you now Adam? Congrats on all your hard work!
August 12th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
It’s the end, I tell you! The End!
Good luck, Adam – may your PITT pens never run dry!
August 12th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Damit! First Erika Moen and now you, and soon Ellerbisms…. what am I going to fill my working days with now, then, eh? Anyways, all the best and jolly good luck and all that, Toodle-pip.
August 12th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
I love how anti-climatic this is, but it works. Life goes on. It’s what I think is interesting about journal comics, they start with a relatively dull introduction of the artist and then end with life going on. Good luck with Blood Blokes
August 12th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Yeah. Thanks for the good time reading this. Good luck, Adam.
August 12th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
The comments so far are a veritable who’s who of the Everyday and I love it.
Congrats buddy – I remember starting reading these a long time ago in Australia and I’m glad to have come the whole journey with you. Here’s to all that’s to come.
Smooches!
August 12th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
OH SNAP MARC AND LIZZ!!
Bye bye Adam Cadwell, bye bye….
August 12th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Congrats Adam! So many congrats!
August 13th, 2010 at 12:22 am
Thanks 4 the memories man. It’s a fitting end 2 the saga and I’ll miss my twice weekly/weekly/monthly/when ever Cadwell can find the time slices of The Everyday.
Watching your art develop from the start is like seeing the difference between the old and new Simpsons. I’m sure that Marvel, DC/Vertigo, Dark Horse or Oni will be head hunting you real soon.
Mucho love. I’ll continue 2 wear my Everyday badge with pride.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:25 am
Oh and I can’t believe that Vimto has never actually been mentioned in a strip before. It’s like Barry Norman- ‘And why not’.
August 13th, 2010 at 11:41 am
August 13th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Ah smashing job man, will miss the Everyday but looking forward to your future works! And this makes me nostalgic for the days you were at the shop with us and we would take turns to buy giant bottles of Vimto. :3
August 13th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
I’m sad to see it go but excited by Blood Bloke. I’ll actually be happy to part with some cash for a tactile wedge of Cadwell comic.
August 14th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Simple, yet effective, such a good last strip
And oi oi, I live almost as southerly as it gets, and we have vimto! I was drinking vimto cordial this morning, in fact
August 15th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Congratulations!!
Clicking back through the archives, it is clear that this comic, and these four years, have been well spent. It has been so cool to catch glimpses of your life in panels. And dear lord your art is so lovely these days. I am so excited to see where it will go next. (Blood Blokes looks like much fun!)
August 16th, 2010 at 1:08 am
I’ve only just managed to quell the tears. I an’t believe you’ve done this to us Cadwell. I’m with Gary – Everyyear? Love you Buddy xxx
August 16th, 2010 at 8:19 am
[...] most important news this week is slightly sad: The Everyday ended with #200 which you can see here. You should also scroll through all of the amazing entries that were sent in as suggested endings [...]
August 16th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Aw… bye bye The Everyday… *sniff Sniff* … please come to Berlin with Kayla for adventures… we have comics and pop and potato waffles and I will make you shepherds pie with sliced pickled beetroot and a piece of puff pastry on the side!
Seen you soonest Captain Cadwell
Livly xx
August 16th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
I’ve been following The Everyday for a while, and I just wanted to thank you (probably on behalf of many other anonymous fans as well) for the brilliant work this has been. Congratulations, and good luck for the future!
August 23rd, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Hi Adam, just wanted to say good luck for future projects. I was a follower and even referenced you in a dissertation on autbio comics! I understand completely what you say about having learnt a lot — I started my own web comic 3 years ago specifically so it would force me to draw. And when you’ve learnt what you need to learn then you know it’s time to move on. Congrats and good luck.
Mike
October 5th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
I would start reading this just as you finish it! XD hey! youll probably not remember me – I was the random girl at the Alternative comics fair in the nation of shopkeepers in leeds who came flat broke – ANYWAY. I tracked down a copy of one of your collection comics and I LOVE it. Its a shame its come to an end now, congratulations on managing to finish it! I’m going to backtrack and read all the pages ive missed
May 17th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Wey! Done it! All 200 read in one go.. and it’s 3:33… which is weird because that number crops up a lot in my life – significantly… Adam Cadwell this may just be the beginning.
May 18th, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Thanks for all the comments, Steve! I hope you enjoyed them