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.

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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

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!

Marc Ellerby:

I bloody LOVE this! I laughed my head off at the note! I was thinking of actually ending the comic with something to do with me and Kayla moving in together but it felt like I’d be stretching things out on purpose, so I’m glad Marc worked it into his. I love that man.

Marc’s copied me and he’s ending his comic soon. If you don’t already, go and and read Ellerbisms while you still can.

Kayla Hillier:

Kayla is perhaps the only person who could base her ending on something that actually happened to me, and so she did. Instead of a fantastical ending she records a moment of me driving her mad in an episode of Ikea-caused confusion. This is also the first time she has ever drawn me, but be prepared for a lot more of me in her travel diary comic Galavant.

Lizz Lunney:

Haha! I’d kill for a Little Adam Pez! Little Lizz Lunney knows that I’m a fan of Pez, Vimto and my own face so this may be the perfect gift for me.

Joe Decie:

Joe also knows I love the Vimto. I’d always loved the deadpan, down to earth observation of Joe’s comics and so I thought his rendering of the Chinese Vimto factory was hilarious in it’s dullness. Thanks Joe. If there’s any webcomic you should be reading now mine has ended, it’s Joe’s.

John Cei Douglas:

If John came to my party with a Moomin I’d be out of there like a shot. John drew a comic himself once you know. It was about Buffaloes or something. Anyway it was pretty good. Let’s all bug him to do more, eh?

Bonus: Andrew ’2hands’ Tunney (again):

Andy sent me the black and white version of this a week ago and I posted it in The End: Part 2, but he’s since coloured it in wonderful Mignola style and I needed to share it here. Thanks Tuntun!

It’s not too late to send your endings in! I’ll be posting a huge post later today of all the other comics and drawings I’ve received and I may even do one next week if I get any later entries. So, send your comics to adam(at)adamcadwell.com, in black and white or colour as a 600 pixels wide jpeg at 72 pixels/inch.

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.

Thorsten Sideboard:

Not only is this guy called Thor (!) but he sends me this awesome sci-fi twist ending that makes total sense. Kayla has been getting some funny looks from me since I read this. Canadian she says, yeah right!

Robin Henley:

Poor Little Adam, poor dead Little Adam. Thanks for this one Robin, it made Kayla shriek with the giggles.

Can Yalcinkaya:

Can kindly sends this comic all the way from Australia. It may be the most plausible, playfully meta ending that’s been sent in. It’s also very sweet and there’s something very Bash Street Kids about my face in panel 4 that I really like.

John Gardener:

Oh no Kayla has dumped me! But wait it was all a dream. Well, someone had to do the classic dream ending. I’m also amused that John thinks I have huge posters of my own drawings on my wall.

John Stansfield:

And because I said I’d post all the entries that I got, and he kind of dared me, lastly we have this from my “friend” John Stansfield who, believe it or not, is actually a very talented comedy writer. I’m so sorry, Mum.

If you’d like to send me your own vision of how The Everyday should end, please send me one before the deadline which is currently August 12th. I hope to post as many as I can on Thursday when I post the real Everyday #200! Whoop! Yeah! Etc!

Send your comics to adam(at)adamcadwell.com, in black and white or colour as a 600 pixels wide jpeg at 72 pixels/inch.

Joe List:

I WISH I was drawing a new comic called King of Space! Also, I love my blue hair and glasses. If you don’t know Joe’s work, then go and get to know it, buy it a drink, invite it to the cinema next Wednesday, I’m positive you’ll have some great times together.

Andrew ’2hands’ Tunney:

Some may know him as 2hands for his ability to draw with both hands at once, others may know him as Tunney or just Andy. I just know him as the guy I’ve been gently bugging to draw his awesome comic ideas for years now so I’m extra glad he sent me this. Also sometimes I call him Tuntun. Oh, and that’s the rubble of Manchester city center by the way.

Tuntun’s been in The Everyday a few times too and he also does a pop culture podcast with a friend of his who is an American man

Chris Madden:

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Chris Madden needs no introduction to long time readers. My “long suffering” ex-housemate kindly spent the time to create this comic for me. Though he’s no longer in the comic (or my life, sniff) because he’s up in Edinburgh “working” it’s really nice to have him included at the end of the comic as he was, for a while there, my co-star. Madden’s many appearances start here.

Pedro Martin:

Hotwell explodes!!! This entry from reader Pedro Martin amused me, there hasn’t been enough explosions in The Everyday and Pedro sets things right, just in the nick of time. He’s also just started drawing his own autobio comic, Unremarkable Routine, and I think he’s off to a great start.

Howard Hardiman:

This may be a little odd out of context, but this great pin up by Howard ‘Handsome’ Hardiman is in reference to The Everyday #162. I don’t know if it’s because of The Terminator reference but I’m flattered that I’ve been drawn so buff. I’m so not buff. Check out Howard’s melancholic comics about lonely badgers and city-livin’ dinosaurs.

Send me your own ending to The Everyday and make me feel all warm inside. The deadline is currently August 12th. Send your comics to adam(at)adamcadwell.com, in black and white or colour as a 600 pixels wide jpeg at 72 pixels/inch.

It turns out that yes, she did eat a wolf.

ONE MORE COMIC TO GO!

April Nash:

I think April’s captured both Marc’s and my own style really well here. Plus chosen a brilliant film relationship to mirror our bromance.

Clark Burscough:

Clark is the most public face of the superb Thought Bubble Sequential Art Festival held in Leeds. He is the ever-chatty voice of their Twitter account and writes on their blog often, profiling and interviewing the country’s comic artists.

Mark D Penman:

For those who didn’t get the film reference at first (like me, thanks Kayla), Mark has paid tribute to a seminal 80′s teen flick and a John Hughes classic. Mark’s a talented chap also from Manchester and his comics are always a thrill to read.

Oliver Hanbidge:

And finally, this lengthy strip from local character Oliver Hanbidge. I love that he’s used aspects from The Everyday but also Faust, a match made in MS Paint heaven!

Please send more entries in, I’m loving them. The deadline is currently August 12th. Send your comics to adam(at)adamcadwell.com, in black and white or colour as a 600 pixels wide jpeg at 72 pixels/inch.

I may have been slightly tipsy by this point. Oh, and Kayla has had a hair cut.

So, only 2 Everydays to go! How is it going to end? Check the blog post below for some related news!