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If you grew up reading about the most powerful superheroes on the pages of your comic books, it would be no surprise that you grew up wanting to be a comic writer or illustrator. After all, it is fascinating how creators can create believable alternate realities through visual storytelling.

A homespun pioneer family has their whole world completely shattered by the Civil War.
Strange story about a therapist.
The crew on a ship runs into trouble when they discover the wreckage of an old ship.
The lives of three identical triplets get tangled up when one of them disappears from a crime scene.
There is a new punk band, and they are relentless in their rebellion.
The mayor has witnesses that can take their long-time nemesis down for good.
A too bold fashion designer presents a controversial collection to a large gathering.
The nation’s most popular songwriting competition is designed to be a scam by a rich man to take over the country’s music industry.
A woman’s social life takes a turn for the worse when she unwittingly becomes involved with a criminal.
Someone with a secret identity finds out that someone else they know has a secret identity.
Enemies from the past reappear to haunt a woman, leading her to wonder about her husband’s past.
A ghost story is reprinted from a vintage newspaper.
A sports star tries to clear his name after failing a drug test.
The daughter of an important, respected family is banished from her homeland.
Archeologists discovered strange potsherds in the desert.
A woman has to go on a reality show to decide who keeps the family pets.
A political candidate has to deal with rumors about his lineage.
A hero’s partner, who has always been an enigma, transforms into a monster.
Their friends try to talk them out of it…
A man the world has turned its back on is enjoying a peaceful life when a woman from his past unexpectedly shows up.
Invent uses for common household objects.
Polite monsters are invited to a castle.
An author of paranormal novels is tormented by the ghosts he has created.
The eldest son is saddled with all the responsibilities of his late father. Meanwhile, the younger brother is leading the life of his dreams.
Jesus Christ tells a story about heaven.
A friend must serve time for a crime committed by the hero.
People are getting stranded on the moon and no one on earth knows why.
A young boy is stranded on a desert island so he builds a raft using only natural resources.
A boy has superpowers, but does not know what to do.
A famous painter has fallen on hard times.
Cowboys are chasing and shooting at a group of cattle rustlers
The only man who can save a failing company loses everything in a bet.
Princess trapped in a tower by malevolent balcony-sweepers.
A superhero has a big fight with his arch-enemy.
A defiant long-haired woman rejects her shallow debutante ways to marry the man she really loves.
Members of a high school tennis team take a summer tennis camp. Each player has personal goals from winning nationals to getting the best tan to fraternizing with the best coach, and more.
A short time before his child’s birthday, the character has a crisis of what it is that he wants to be remembered for.
A werewolf attempts to enter a girl’s room, only to be pixelated into a mixture of human and wolf
Talk show host falls victim to prank.
Students deal with constant bullying at school.
Reeta Catra wants to be queen of the universe
Dieter is forced to put down his torch and pitchfork to become the new leader of the vampire coven.
Two rivals must work together to fix their ruined marriage proposal.
A wicked stepmother ruins the magic of the tales of Cinderella.
A songwriter gets caught up with a con-man.
A murderer is on the loose, and someone you know is next on his list.
A child runs his bakery business.
A child’s pet runs away.
A private detective’s client insists on getting the sleuth to stop investigating their murder case.
Speak your opinion on a controversial issue – be as subjective as possible in your journal entries
Explore a TV or novel mythology. What is the back-story of the Sorting Hat in Harry Potter?
A man in a new town realizes that not all is as it seems. His neighbors are all elves and he can’t figure out how to fit in. When he goes on a movie date with his wife, he’s convinced everybody else in the audience are also elves disguised as people.
Use rhyming poetry in a fairy tale inspired comic
A dentist discovers his waiting room is bugged.
It’s been discovered that a character’s parents aren’t really their biological parents.
A space camp opens up on the Moon.
A famous mannequin is stolen from a department store during opening
Evil Dr. Evil makes a bioweapon that can turn people into Mr. Potatoheads.
A bunch of nerds discover a drug that makes them grow a foot taller.
The mayor decides it would be a good idea to tax things.
Teen rejects valentine from love-interest
A superhero crashes down into an office building.
A superhero appears to have gone evil.
Interrogate a prisoner who claims to be a princess.
A competitive brother steals a special locket off his sister’s necklace.
Cops rivalries become a battle
The princess of the kingdom gets kidnapped by brute bandits.
Old people make hilarious euphemisms for outhouses.
Team colors unite to stop a bad guy from taking over a new high school.
Somebody won the lottery, but somebody else stole his ticket.
Adolescents make up a phony party story that gets out of hand.
A genius and an idiot are lost in the woods – and someone has to be the leader.
Draw a funny comic of a well-known fairy tale. What happens to the cute characters?
Old and new people try to love each other while old resentments and suspicions arise.
Make a comic with iconic monsters or creatures
A boy is raised by his grandfather. However, he is shocked when he learns who his real parents are.
Criminals take refuge in a stranger’s home after a major theft
Samurai, Pirates and Vikings fight to see who is best.
A detective hunts down a killer who is right under his nose. She is shocked to realize that the murderer is her father.
A grizzly bear comes into town in fall mating season, disrupting all efforts to contain him.
A purple sea monster is terrorizing the ocean.
A character has an eclectic catchphrase that keeps others on their toes.
An up-and-coming luchador has strange aspirations on the night of his big debut.
A husband and wife are shopping – their cart is full – She comes across a fantastic find she thinks her husband will fall in love with – wrong.
Dignitaries from abroad come to visit, but unknown to them, they are in a segregated neighborhood. The dignitaries come from a country where they have the opposite situations than what the people in the neighborhood have.
A girl has a hard time making friends. Except her best friend’s boyfriend keeps hitting on her.
A prestigious school is haunted by a ghost or monster.
A mother has a terminal illness, so she plans to spend her last few months by going on a family trip.
A woman sees a man she wants to fall in love with but he only has his cat.
A magical-looking device falls down from the sky.
The three witches from Macbeth attempt to gather up all of the lights in the world to cast a nasty spell. One by one, the lights go missing and it’s up to three kids to get them back.
Primary school children enter a playwriting competition. Competition Entry
Scientists develop a robot to do all of their household chores. However, because of a programming bug, the robot becomes murderous.
Janitor discovers that he is one of a long line of mythical guardians.
A dragon-hunting expedition gets its man, but more trouble arrives – in a most unexpected way – later.
Someone’s sister shows up to the party uninvited.
Professional rivals duke it out in the local arena.
Is there any additional information that you think helped get the books produced?
Mushroom people emerge from the forest under a severely overcast sky.
Lovers are about to break up – but one loves deeper than the other.
Because of a trick of geography two groups of people who shouldn’t get along have to stay in close quarters and try to get along.
A delivery man gets lost on the way to deliver some important documents.
A rich old man who is about to die needs to name a successor.
What does a bride say when her father gives her a talking horse for her wedding day?
An old safe is opened for the first time in years.
There is a serial killer on the loose in a big city.
The mob is after your client. They are bound and determined to find any evidence to convict
Husband and wife pull pranks on each other.
In the aftermath of an enormous explosion, witness protection tries to find the biggest bomb maker in the city.
A common laborer hears a voice in the forest. He goes to investigate. He finds nothing – until he follows the direction of the voice – into a cave.
The owner of a shoe shop sits down on their favourite display shoe – and slips away into a strange alternate universe.
Reporter is about to break an earth-shattering news story, until a politician’s office holds the story ransom.
An actor is determined to play a role – no matter what.
Superheroes deal with attacks from villains.
People discover that cranberry juice neutralizes the powers of ghosts.
An unemployed superhero is fired by his/her city and goes on to become a notorious criminal.
A man burgles a home and finds something more valuable than money – a copy of his birth certificate.
A troll is menacing a small village.
Cops arrive in the nick of time
A family is scared by the underperformance of a timeshare presentation featuring a hypnotist.
Cultists kidnap the priest of a popular god.
Sisters are about to compete in a friendly horse race, before discovering each other’s cheating ways.
Comic about the forgotten city of Altiplano
Two brothers have a fight with swords – which ends up killing them both.
It’s field day at the elementary school, attended by local politicians and other dignitaries.
Characters trapped in a tower must do something in order to leave.
Rumor has it that the mayor is really a demon.
A famous navigator & explorer discovers a strange land in which legends are true.
A talking car requires its owner for any journey that’s taken.
An ancient painting shows an apocalyptic vision of the future.
You pull into a gas station, only to find that your tires have been slashed.
A man gets a call one night from a woman who claims that she has been kidnapped.
One brother uses his girlfriend as a maid, the other doesn’t mind.
The head of a famous household is murdered and everyone with a motive to commit the crime is invited to the funeral.
Fathers who feel overshadowed by their sons are able to fly on a superhero fantasy
Thieves steal money from a known underworld fat-cat.
Someone dies, and doesn’t realise they are dead.
An old soldier comes home, only to find that the world falls apart while he is gone.
A powerful and fashionable woman is suing a less fashionable woman for an old family recipe, claiming that the recipe rightfully belongs to her family.
Put events from your past into a comic and share it with friends and family.
Employees of a sneaky department store start stealing the left shoes when they ring customers, thinking the store would accept the tie-in purchase of new shoes.
Evil villains bring a futuristic tank to the Middle Ages.
A pair of siblings, as children, created a secret club. As adults they forgot about the club, but years later they get a series of clues hinting that the club never died.
A golem falls in love with a talking dog. This story involves the supernatural.
A student girl faces expulsion from school because of her rebellious attitude. Word reaches her crush and he helps her to get out of her troubles.
A jilted teenager with telekinetic powers wreaks revenge.
A grandfather reads aloud his memoirs to his beautiful young bride.
Boss fires employee, who then snaps, and poisons his former helpmates.
Three sisters are asked to volunteer for a seemingly simple memory experiment…
An evil ruler kidnaps the princess and imprisons her in his fortress.
Protagonists discover an alien and try to figure out what it wants from them.
Scientists discover a race of tiny people inside a little enclave—like a small Japanese garden.
Someone is pretending to be a celebrity.
A TV program designed to reward good deeds goes wrong when avowed villains are included.
Villain goes on a rampage using high-tech weaponry.
Recent widow discovers her violent
A hero’s quest ends in hardship.
Science experiment goes awry, destroys the city
Draw a comic about a police woman who doesn’t play by the rules.
Have them go on a cruise and meet a strange man with obsessions.
Royal family members wrestle for the crown in this period comedy.
A woman is obsessed with playing the lottery and buying scratch-off lotto tickets.
A butcher discovers his next customer orders human meat.
Matchmaker has a conflicting idea about pairings.
A magical spell entrapping a dragon is about to fail. A cute little bunny with big, hungry teeth has a bite. This is a wonderful platform for students to demonstrate their creative thinking. As they consider each character, as part of the final poster display, they will create a character to perfectly reflect the super hero they imagined that has odd superpowers.
A child wonders what’s beyond his front door.
A supernatural creature must collect victims for an evil ritual.
A shy child tries to get up enough courage to call an “older man” – they’re both the same age, but he’s far more mature.
Someone plants counterfeit money into circulation.
Childhood buddies facing the horrors of war.
An evil wizard returning from the dead and wreaking havoc on the kingdom.
An award-winning author loses her inspiration. Five of her close friends decide to help her through it.
Write a comic strip that informs readers how to grow bonsais
Overprotective parents ground their child after he or she has been missing for a night.
Someone pretending to be a famous law person from the distant time
A weary band of adventurers come to rest – but they’re not alone.
People are invited to a house to be interviewed by a TV crew.
A customer orders a professional tombstone.
A magician gets upset when people have read his diary and begin breaking the laws of magic set by him.
Add to previous stories.
It’s a normal day – until the brakes on your car fail, leading to an accident.
A suspect poses as a vegetarian to hide a sinister plan.
The town is falling into anarchy as vampires plot to take over the town.
Gangs are at war. Tough guys in the gang want to prove their loyalty.
Students at a public school find themselves trapped by a ghoul.
An insane asylum holds a mysterious prisoner who walks up and demands to be released.
The monarchy has been overthrown by peasants
Figure out an interesting way to reveal a character’s secret.
A famous adventurer enters a dragon’s lair to fight the beast and prove her mettle.
Teachers employ ancient methods to dole out discipline to childish students.
Large-scale catastrophe – Everyone is having a good time at the fair until they are brought under by sinister forces.
A robot goes on a rampage, damaging or destroying everything in its path.
A prying tabloid reporter gets in the way of a secret romance.
A couple see a man damage a bar with his bare hands.
A drag racer comes face-to-face with his worst fear.
Your friend borrowed money from a loan-shark and now they’re trying to get the money back. Your friend wants you to help them by faking an elaborate accident where they’ll break their arm so that they won’t have to pay back the money. You’re struggling with whether or not to help your friend – because when you do, you’ll actually be the one who owes them fifty dollars!
Two strangers on a train both start telling stories that they overheard the other person say.
A gay character on a talk show discusses his sexuality and how he came out to his friends and family.
Moore twins want to please their tough father.
A vacation to a tropical paradise ends up getting more than the family bargained for.
Two brothers are setting out their diverge in the boxing arena.
How does a famous painter work?
Country boy moves to a big city.
Family is distraught over a grandmother’s impending death.
High school girl is trying to date two guys at once, but her heart is torn between them.
An evil mastermind creates a master plan that requires a long-lost magic artifact.
Friends go to the local watering hole where there is a rowdy biker gang.
Fashion and hair styles change drastically overnight.
A husband and wife realize they are not the right match, and they want to split.
A mysterious old caveman says that he will fulfill a prophecy with a haunting grin.
The story of your ancestor’s misadventures on a deserted island before being rescued by Spanish explorers.
A lying coworker spreads a nasty rumor about another worker
A street magician is getting in over his head.
Someone is a drunk.
Thieves rob a museum at night
A group of space pirates steal some hot, powerful technology – but bring on
A cabinet of curiosities fills an old mansion.
A woman is about to kill herself – until a superhero arrives just in time to save her.
An isolated island has disappeared into the ocean.
Have the main character turn out to be a little bit like Sherlock Holmes.
A gang of ninjas emerge from beneath the city and take hostages.
A woman buys a necklace on a grand whim. Weeks later she gets news that the necklace was stolen! Who could have taken it? Where does it come from? Does she even want to know?
A wolf falls in love with a cub.
A collection of poems to cheer the spirits, love or amuse the reader
Robbers accidentally kidnap a criminal.
“To the Moon Alice!” Alice falls into the rabbit hole and finds her way to Wonderland instead of the moon
A couple is getting married by the king.
A glamorous movie star tries to have a low-key vacation.
A woman can’t understand why her roommate won’t leave for work until all hours of the night.
Superheroes have to defeat an evil mastermind. And you’re not allowed to use some diabolical device or trap.
Cavalry chases a runaway couple.
A man suddenly finds himself captured and on a ten day rafting trip – with his favorite childhood crush.
A man is admitted into a hospital with a strange illness no-one had heard of before.
Cartoon Characters
Someone steals an important document.
Networking professionals explore a theme related to their field of expertise.
After a mission unexpected crisis, the team’s greatest foes surface.
Inventions and discoveries, such as real-life robots, explore that issue beyond the fictional realm.
A greedy businessman deals with a worse-then-death blackmailing scheme.
Animal lovers protest against the treatment of animals at the zoo.
A twin sacrifices his or her life for the sake of another twin. An example would be Romeo and Juliet.
A family can’t pay their bills and heads to the office of a major newspaper with a big problem.
A prince has lost his kingdom and must make his way in the world.
A vengeful squid was mutated by radiation.
A mild-mannered man with no means of defending himself against an abusive wife ends up defending himself against numerous thugs.
A possessed/haunted house belongs to the MC.
Cultists kidnap a journalist to be sacrificed to a demon.
A well-known competitor has uncovered a secret that could cripple the character’s business or career.
Star-Crossed Lovers
A superhero is able to speak to ghosts – but ghosts always seem to lead him to trouble.
Loners have got to beware when their taciturn nature starts making people uncomfortable.
Business leaders get involved in a bidding war.
Superheroes accidentally give newspaper reporters superpowers.
People visit a haunted house for reasons unknowable to the rest of the town.
A glitch in the time-space continuum causes a bank vault to open nine years late.
The kids in the neighborhood want to catch a movie star’s dog.
Two different people get the same tattoo.
Someone is stealing pages from a book. Someone disguises themselves as another person by wearing their stolen robe.
In the future, someone discovers a time-travel device
Teachers at a performing arts high school are threatened when one of the students goes missing.
Rumors have it that a famous bust is cursed.
A comic based around theater
A group of social friends locate an old cursed box in their attic.
A down-on-his-luck gambler runs afoul of the mob.
A promising novelist is about to publish a new book.
4. Ask More Adult
Parents disown children who become an artist, comedian, poet or musician.
A dog’s master died recently. The faithful hound spends weeks mourning and refuses to eat…
A group of hikers explores a cave and end up fighting over a glow stick.
Villains steal the town’s prized baseball trophy.
Local play gets bomb threat
A detective gets stuck on an island, where innocence and evil blend seamlessly together.
A couple’s marriage is on the rocks, until an unexpected event begins to heal their marriage.
The Pembroke Womyn’s Golden Fleece Painting
Suddenly a journey in time sends the hero hurtling into an alternate reality. The locals think he’s a secret agent, which is an improvement on his normal life.
Childhood buddies hide a secret from their past.
Have two friends verbally confront each other – but one is completely unaware of the other’s anger and he must rely on clues from the other friend’s body language to know what is going on.
A reclusive genius makes an inordinately ambitious invention
A royal knight holds a tournament in the hopes that a worthy prince will win the sword.
Persons from the past appear at the door of a family
Grandpa’s will leaves his enormous fortune to his daughters-but only if they can live together in the house he grew up in.
One character finds fame when he posts a lip-dub video of a popular song. The rest of the characters try to make him take the video down.
Uncaring parents are stumped by their supposed-to-be-bright kid who simply refuses to cooperate.
A butler searches for treasure hidden in his previous employers’ home.
The mayor decides that justice is best served by publicly punishing criminals. People in town start burning their own criminals into the stocks.
What if dinosaurs survived and continued to evolve? Made into a storyboard showing a bunch of cavemen discovering the first dinosaur egg and a tyrannosaurus attacks a group of gangsters.
An innocent kid is framed with the murder of a famous comic-book villain.
The Executioner’s Lie is a swash-buckling pirate adventure comic about Ben Weeks, who is on a quest to find the secret tomb of Poseidos, an ancient Greek hero whose brawn and might made him a beloved figure to all who worked on the sea.
A murder mystery.
A suicidal conscience fairies – use
Monsters wait in ambush along a dark forest path.
A burglar breaks into the New York museum of comic books and gets away with the magical painting The Player. One member of the police force doubts the existence of the Player and starts his own investigation.
Monsters attack a zoo, eating all the animals.
What will the bunny do – just dumb it down and feed it something stupid?!
Notable people and their criminal deeds.
A small pet runs away from home.
Characters decide to hold a big surprise birthday bash for an elderly character – but what will happen when the guest of honor doesn’t show? If you want to write detective stories, you can check the list of story ideas here
An anarchist decides to stage a terrorist attack to bring attention to his cause.
Romance between two couples of the same species leads to relationship issues.
A character witnesses the supernatural.
An artist falls for her art appraiser.
A secluded vampire neighborhood comes under attack by the hunters.
A group of revolutionaries fight against a corrupt government.
A child’s talent at a dessert contest proves hazardous.
A father is miserable as only one of his sons will inherit the family business.
Newspaper reporter dropped into a warzone must file a story
Online comic – Fantasy World- What Intersection of Universe and Alternate version of reality is this?
An oracle warns that if the Pharaoh doesn’t start living an ethically clean life, then the civilization will plummet.
A major character will quit his/ her job.
A group of people randomly compete to be fast enough to win an NFL-esque trophy
A dastardly villain is enjoying their latest triumph, but they’ve taken one small item that doesn’t belong to them.
A dog is mistaken for an illegal immigrant and taken to a border patrol office.
Someone discovers their new pet is a were-wolf / mermaid / vampire / ghost.
Police officers chase a small time crook who has kidnapped a family member.
A man goes against his father’s wishes and enters a duel with another man.
The government releases mutated animals that wreak havoc in town.
The previous Archivist was killed before telling a new Archivist about the force guarding the Themis Vault.
Visit your room mate/roommates house.
Draw a time-travel story where the hero is flung back into a society from at least a century ago, he has to figure out the ways of the people or just avoid getting himself into trouble, then has to find his way back to his own time.
Draw a comic about a haunted house.
A secret society plots a sinister conspiracy.
Teens need to find a prom queen’s lost purse.
Strange local pride begins to manifest itself. Nobody knows why…
Demon wants the hero’s soul for his collection.
Young boy rises from the dead and wanders the city streets wondering who he is.
A closet-hugger claims to know the identity of an online bully.
The president is coming to the region and there’s all sorts of interference happening in the typical romance. For example, a group of terrorists are threatening the president’s life and the local police are doing all that they can to stop them.
A poet who relies on a description of a new poem to make sales, suddenly finds that he can no longer describe his poems.
When the main character is bitten by a radioactive person, strange mutations occur…
Come up with an idea for a fictional story.
A mutant learns to cope with his dramatic color-changing skin.
A jilted bride wreaks revenge on the groom.
Author of eBooks on writing
You, the narrator, hate working for the local smith. The smith first says he is glad you quit and then you find out he is threatening your family.
The Queen is captured during a covert operation.
There’s been a terrible accident at the nuclear power plant. Chris and his team of experts are the only hope.
Scientists work on a secret invention and run into trouble.
Comic of the year ends on a cliffhanger, Comic company is left speechless. No pages left to publish.
What was the deal with the city’s former mayor?
The principal’s son feels he’s being bullied. But he’s the one bullying others.
A sinister uncle wants to get rid of the heir to an estate by setting him to become famous.
An athlete could have used steroids and suffered health problems.
A character finds out a horrible truth hidden from him or her.
A magical animal or monster needs your help.
Chicken and chips are sold on a street corner.
Star-crossed lovers attempt a perilous journey.
A gang rides into town carrying a wanted outlaw.
A detective and his partner are on the trail of a serial killer.
How to draw comics
The story of a hard boiled private detective.
A kitten plays with a cat’s butterfly.
A farmer tries to protect his animals from an evil sorcerer.
A freak weather event hits the town and causes trouble.
A family inheritance has been taken from someone, and they need your help to get it back.
Give the comic a rundown plot, people and locations
Hunters on an island rescue a stranded warrior. They teach him their culture as he slowly gets healthier.
Desperate lovers decide to flee to America.
Yana, an unknown personality that surfaces when the main character is drunk.
Characters lay out plans for a business venture
People living in a quiet, rural town are shocked to discover that a mob boss has moved in next door with his family.
Villain steals monsters.
You and your new friend become wanted criminals and must fight for survival.
An eccentric inventor invents a robot wife.
Anthropomorphic animals welcome a new addition to the family.
Accident-prone young man turns down a job offer.
Life is normal until a mole is discovered in the FBI.
A mobster is ordered to kill his rival after a mysterious phone call.
Character finds a comic book that can help solve the mystery of his/her current predicament.
Roderick Roarocks is an archaeologist
A sexy angel visits a man in his dreams and gives him some useful advice.
A woman acting as an unpaid intern on a talk show decides she is not happy, and quits and starts her own talk show.
Thieves take revenge on a neighborhood by stealing – and then dumping! – all of their stuff in favor of watermelon.
An old man discovers a photo, buried for two years, of who he thought was a dead ally.
Lovers meet on a train and are just about to share their deepest secret – until they realize they are each in horror stories from the great master Dr. Dracula.
Draw a joke comic about mismatched partners.
Cartoon characters are the result of secret genetic engineering performed on farm animals.
A young man asks his older boss for lessons by becoming an apprentice.
A scientist invents a time machine
A mother is getting ready to discipline her wayward child – until an armed intruder bursts in on the scene.
The comic’s main character has hobbies – one of them being wine appreciation.
Can an old recluse discover the joys of the internet?
Pranksters teach a rival a lesson by unleashing mutant animals from an abandoned genetic lab.
A teenage boy yearns to look mature.
Persuade a friend to write a comic
A villain puts together an invention that overrides all the weapons systems in the world.
Murder mystery. One of the main characters turns out to have been the killer all along.
Young newcomers approach a knight experienced in combat to learn the art of chivalry.
An outpatient team enters a tournament and ends up having the highest score.
Write a comic about a teenager who works for a character that is the opposite of everything that teenager stands for.
An innocent little girl needs surgery.
A homeless person takes refuge from a sudden downpour.
A scientist is discovered to be working for an evil organization despite her previous good intentions.
A sorcerer competes with a priest for a woman’s soul.
A child discovers that her parent is not really her parent, where the parent won’t tell their child that they are not their parent and that causes conflict.
A movie is being made about your client’s life, but in your opinion, the actor portraying him/her is totally wrong.
A scientist makes a machine to turn invisible.
A person asked to run an errand runs into a group of robbers intent on stealing the items they need to complete their task.
Is there a monster in the woods? Twin sisters find out.
Teenager talks about experiences at GothCon on his blog/podcast.
Deal with a popular singer choosing to do a certain style of music.
Murder mystery – a chef is found dead in a kitchen.
A traveler is stranded in the wilds and runs into a lost civilization.
A man tries to rob a bank but encounters a hero.
A woman finds out she is actually Queen of the Giant Gnomes.
An ancient dragon has returned from the past to reclaim his desires.
A blind man tries to drown a woman in a bathtub.
A pawnshop owner is an undercover agent with a secret identity – as one of the city’s most ruthless killers.
A desk is no place for a good night’s sleep.
A serial killer accidentally buries his victims under a cemetery.
Villains plot to take over the heroic kingdom.
An old woman is murdered in her own home.
Snow is crazy in the head.
A visitor from another tribe strikes a good deal with an eccentric businessman.
A roving band of warriors remind residents of an area why their taxes are so high.
Struggling because your boss is an idiot? Tell his/her story!
A drone steals a robot’s power pack.
Finding a treasure buried on city park land.
Is your idea ready for planning?
A couple buy a newly built house and are moving in. But when they realize all the doors in the house lead to other people’s homes, their first weekend in the house becomes an endurance test.
An old couple have struggled to protect a huge collection of fishing lures from their children ever since the couple’s retirement.
Falling in love with one of the master’s servants.
A card dealer uses unreal technologies to cheat at cards.
A mermaid comes out of the sea and visits a family.
Monster invades the city.
A person from the past meets someone from the future.
An orphan raised by spiders in her cellar realizes that she is not a normal human being after all.
A cute and cuddly vlogger becomes addicted to drugs.
A vigilante is taking justice into his own hands.
Animal Punks
The royalty of a faraway kingdom decide to invite an American heir to their court.
An economist finds an uncut diamond in South Africa.
There’s a beauty contest.
A mad scientist believes he has created a robot that replaces humans.
A historic bridge is about to be replaced – how the characters deal with this historic event.
Are you into comic strips or cartoons?
A scientist invents a time machine but it creates a wormhole to the past.
Draw a comic telling an autobiographical story. Get your family and friends to participate!
An empathic woman attunes to someone else’s violent feelings.
Nanny on the run from two top-level government agencies, after she’s spotted with secrets the superiors weren’t supposed to know.
A golem gains humanity
The town is planning a festival, but some influential residents are against it.
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Couples vacationing at the seashore are unexpectedly stuck there during a monster attack.
No matter how hard you try, you suddenly keep finding shopping carts in your living room
President is about to make high-stakes decisions that may cost him and his administration dearly while simultaneously having to deal with his declining popularity.
A spirit takes over a person, and nobody knows who has it, or how to get rid of it.
An experiment in a lab goes wrong.
The glamorous life of the rich and famous.
A private detective finds a duffel bag full of money and must decide what to do.
Couple breaks up over irreconcilable differences.
Undercover police officer helps catch a major narcotics bust
Badgered to prove that she can keep a secret, Betty shares a harrowing secret with a group of friends.
A weather machine wreaks havoc with the local environment.
An unemployed man finds work, but ends up in a life-threatening situation.
Two old friends meet up and tell stories of adventures they had when they were kids.
A rich couple’s relationship is threatened by a family curse.
High-schoolers write a play together about pagan gods in modern times.
Two brothers both fall in love with the same woman.
Find out where your family is from and draw a comic about the journey that took them from there to where you are now.
A newly formed comic page is releasing its debut feature, “The Protectors”.
A cheating-notary causes confusion when marrying a couple.
Hold a baby on top of the cliff, and then release them, to see what they catch!
A dog’s daydreams about its family at home.
The daily routine of a mild-mannered superhero.
Johnny takes a job at a circus sideshow.
Two women are due to give birth on the same day at the same hospital.
Children unintentionally give their parents a taste of what it is like to have to pay rent or deal with a boss.
A parent leaves the family for someone else.
Computer users get caught in a virtual reality world.
Lovers argue over choices of flowers for their wedding
You agree to deliver a package to an angry mob boss.
The town’s new psychic needs to solve a murder – fast.
Mother-in-law comes to visit family.
Illegal immigrants enter an unsuspecting town illegally.
Children discover their parents’ affair.
A child is trapped in a terrorist compound.
Public debate over a politician’s cheating scandal.
An adventure about a lost kingdom.
An evil character tries to ruin the life of a famous hero. If you create any of these ideas, or any other ideas, please let me know, as I’d like to help promote your work. Related Information Whatever Happened What Brainstorming Creativity Idea Generation Creativity Resources Independent Creativity Techniques Go Now! – Choose your idea Go Go Again! – Write your idea
Children like to dare each other with outrageous challenges – but sometimes it results in a fatal accident.
A ghost haunts the house of a recent widow who believes her death was murder.
Two families feud over a hundred year old land dispute.
A female superhero deals with an unplanned pregnancy.
A street fight breaks out during a parade.
A woman writes political speeches for the man she loves, and he is running for office – but she lived in a town that was ransacked by bandits and was secretly married to the man who protected her.
Good workers stole the company’s prized invention, and are selling it for profit.
A man is turned down for a job unexpectedly…the next day his best friend finds out why.
Compel to be irresistibly attractive.
The Presidential Candidate takes a hostage and challenges the opponent to a duel.
A child’s neighbor turns out to be a slave of an evil warlord.
Shopping mall includes a diorama of the Mongolian war.
Giant monsters terrorize a city.
Professors discover buried manuscripts and translate them to find the world’s biggest natural disasters.
Construction workers accidentally unearth a box of bones believed to be Cherokee victims of genocide.
A circus performer defies her family’s wishes and joins the circus.
You’re wandering around in the forest, and a whole new community of fairies emerges.
An evil “wizard” discovers a powerful magic spell but he can only use it if he wins a dance contest.
Someone stumbles across a conspiracy and finds himself on the run, with his life on the line.
A neighbourhood gets covered in a strange mist and evil clowns come out to play.
A group of goodhearted misfits tries to clean up a crime-ridden neighborhood.
Your superhero goes on a blind date and deals with a daunting mystery gambler.
A simple bank heist unleashes a series of unexpected complications.
Construction workers were doing some building in an old graveyard, but they uncovered some mysterious looking coffins.
Couple has car trouble and seeks help at a ranch run by a religious fanatic.
Usher is transferred to a different location and must get to know his new co-workers.
Something shocking is revealed about a suspect that amazes even the most seasoned detective.
A character tries to pick up a trophy for an award they believe they deserve.
Draw a comic about a magician performing a big illusion.
A woman who never misses her train is shocked to see a man who seems to always get on the same train which leaves shortly after hers.
A superhero thinks his long-lost parents reside in Middleton – but when he arrives, he finds things are not as he expected.
A lunatic boy believes that his teddy bear is talking to him and has kidnapped it.
Car thieves are caught and must do community service.
A difficult laundry day
A reporter stalks the policeman who rescued him.
Write a comic about a job applicant who sabotages her future employer with her childhood antics, but is not caught.
Deep sea divers discover some sunken treasure from a shipwreck.
What do you do if you hear a baby crying behind the walls of your new house?
Superheroes are about to be cryogenically frozen for five years.
Unicorns rampaging down the street, breathing fire rather than the typical rainbows.
High school drama
Looking through your father’s old things, you discover some ancient parchments that contain information on how to build a time machine.
A young wizard apprentices himself to the aging sorcerer that used to take care of him when he was young.
An ogre tormented by his hag-mother demands a bride.
The heroes are not really the heroes, but the villains are not really the villains, and the MacGuffin is not necessarily the one that everyone is talking about.
A Valentine’s Day Gift Gone Wrong
Paranormal activity rises in an old house and its surrounding land.
A madman threatens to unleash a doomsday virus.
You’re in a car accident or something similar.
Teacher has a crush on one of their students
Super heroes start to take their roles and their costumes a bit too seriously.
A guy gets a proposition to lose his virginity to a porn star.
A fashion photographer needs a certain kind of model for a shoot – very sexy.
A group of scientists conduct unauthorized experiments.
A wizard’s spell goes wrong and his friend turns into a troll.
A pioneer town receives news by telegram and reacts.
A museum gets robbed and a security guard is suspected of the crime, but the main character is more interested in if the precious artwork has been retrieved…
A wealthy explorer loses a fortune and decides to fund a road trip.
A neighboring country kidnaps Queen Milly’s pet pet platypus, Viv and unleashes an army of robotic frogs to force her into surrendering her power.
Politicians are indicted by the FBI.
What if people were captured/trapped in comic books as it takes place ?
Or draw a comic about you and your friends’ Journey to a nice place on a sunny day, then draw a comic about an adventure.
A treasure hunter is going to excavate an entire hillside in order to find lost dinosaur bones…and stumble upon a long-forgotten tomb filled with treasures.
Odd ducks can’t seem to fit in with the other ducks in the pond.
Mad Scientist opens up a vacation resort … for animals, not human beings.
A pedestrian is about to get killed in a car accident – until a hero with superhuman powers intervenes.
You are a magician who accidentally turns yourself into a rabbit – forever.
Terrorists threaten to blow up a city if their demands aren’t met.
An old rival shows up on a wrestler’s doorstep. He claims that he is the wrestler’s biological father.
Someone who has lost a parent looks for a psychiatrist who specializes in grief and loss.
A Captain attempts to warn townspeople and soldiers of an impending disaster. Because of a military gag order, nobody wants to listen.
Princess finds her true love.
A widowed bride spends her honeymoon in a haunted house.
Everybody dies.
A professor mistakenly invents a death ray that threatens the world.
Gamers play in a fantasy world for the first time.
Main character is a stoner – everyone secretly knows it.
Spies have stolen valuable microfilm. A daring superhero retrieves the film from the spies.
College students hatch a plot to get revenge on a teacher.
School Bus full of 4th grade children gets lost on a field trip. Meanwhile, detectives investigate a string of robberies in the town.
A quadriplegic computer hacker who spends all his time sitting at his computer in a wheelchair.
A gang of elvish pickpockets causes trouble for the city.
Friends have a falling out
A lover feels rejection when their partner gets promoted to management.
Somebody returns to their hometown and meets a ghost.
Shark-like creatures attack the local beach town.
Complications during a hold-up.
What would you do if your friend needed surgery?
A masked vigilante is spoiling the mob’s fun in a big city.
Life-changing decisions must be made while on a train to the future.
Traveling performers offer to lower taxes if the town will use their parks for a month every summer.
Burglars are breaking into houses.
A drunken bank robber decides to take the cashier’s daughter as his hostage.
An overweight girl gets lost and discovers she has the magical ability to fix or destroy what she encounters.
A jewelry store owner faces financial troubles.
A fired employee returns to steal as much as he can
History museum security guard has to deal with a masked, silent, bandit thief who steals valuable exhibits.
A message in a bottle is found by a fisherman. The message claims the writer is about to be murdered.
Moving companies try to steal cargo.
You’ll be asked to rewrite the script. Keep only the premise.
A mayor asks the superhero for advice on crime as he is running for reelection.
Someone asked to appear in a movie is stabbed to death on the set of the film.
Adventurers join forces to fend off an invasion of goblins or other monsters.
A family invites a supposedly friendly relative to come live with them.
A boy finds a fossil and suddenly the fossil comes to life.
Shopkeeper makes an amazing drug that helps people get through the day
Two feuding families meet face-to-face at a charity event.
A man trapped in a past he doesn’t remember.
A demonoid attacks the city’s power lines.
Reporters travel to a war zone in an attempt to get an interview with the head of an inhuman community.
Defending the town from a witch was too easy. It’s your quest to defeat a magical bush.
An apprentice steals some of his master’s magic scrolls.
Cowboys and bandits throw an impromptu wedding party.
Rival gangs want to be the ones to control the only available territory left.
A group of students enter a wilderness to prove their endurance during a survival camp.
Heroes defeated the villain, but at a high price.
Someone finds out that they’re adopted and drops everything to search for their real family.
Make comics for an audience of children about animals and prehistoric times.
The most wanted criminal in the land is now free.
A ballerina develops chronic fatigue syndrome – and loses her shot for an important ballet performance.
Something strange is hiding in the woods in a small town.
A king and a beggar are given a chance to meet their dreams.
A dragon and a knight are fighting – who are the dragon and knight?
Two gay men are really good friends. The day before their wedding, one gets cold feet.
A party games night turns crazy when a ghost is summoned!
A bodybuilder seeks revenge on a rival bodybuilder who cheated in a competition.
Villains steal the hero’s precious jar of memories.
Internet con artists trick people out of their postal money.
Someone wants revenge on Halloween.
An employee is about to be downsized
The mad scientist’s experiment has gone wrong
Can the superheroes save Christmas?
A person has to complete tasks to get the highest grades. A Hogwarts more.
Bullies beat up a handicapped student.
An extremely superstitious Chinese immigrant wants his son to learn feng shui for good health.
Draw a comic about a grey man.
The townspeople are afraid of a madman who screams at night.
A fire breathes dinosaur attacks.
Princess meets her prince on a faraway island. Evil sorcerer casts a spell, and the princess falls deep into an enchanted sleep. She will only awaken as a response to true love’s kiss. The only problem is that the princess falls asleep upon meeting her prince, and the prince leaves immediately because is supposed to take a curse-free pebble away from the island. Thus far, he has not encountered true love again.
A young boxer wants to win even though he has self-esteem issues.
The best-selling novelist is going to reveal her inspiration for a certain book.
Your heroes fight their shadows. The shadows come from their darkest thoughts as represented in an evil figure.
High school dance contest is being held.
Vampires have escaped from a local zoo and are on a killing spree in the city.
Troops must bury an Afghanistan war hero, alive
Ask your teacher for plot ideas. Tell them which ones would be appropriate for a younger audience, with less mature language and no violence. Ask them about what types of family-friendly online comics they like and ask for advice on your first project.
A new archaeology student may have discovered a lost city of dinosaurs, or a land of giants.
A supermodel is kidnapped for ransom.
The condemned man does not say anything about his crime to anyone, even to the priest as he is given last rites before his imminent execution.
Secret agents steal money from the dictator’s bank.
A magical snowball fight between two rivals gets out of hand.
All characters – including those shown in the background are named
A civilization struggling to survive makes a terrible discovery
Don’t show the faces of the mother and son in your comic.
A couple discovers that they have been married for twenty years, but the physical attraction has only been kindling a friendship.
Deceived lovers meet in secret, a hidden tryst that is going undetected, with or without the lover’s partners.
A pterodactyl takes up residence at a zoo.
Make a comic-style poster about a famous musician’s best gig.
A once scandalous love triangle is now just an amusing story in a theatre.
A cop in love with a villain.
Someone wrecks up a car during a highway race.
Two school teachers compete for the title of Top Teacher.
Boy has to choose between the girl he loves and his family.
A young man meets a girl who wakes up beside him in bed in the morning.
Scrooge Mcduck goes on a treasure hunt.
Nerdy characters get picked on by popular kids. The nerds go through huge changes when strange things start happening to them.
Draw five comic children struggling to learn to fly.
A small town detective follows a trail to LA.
Hit on the head – the victim finds himself in the past, before World War II – a little totalitarian state dreamt up by a mad dictator.
A young man wins the lottery, but when people start mysteriously dying, it appears to be a curse.
A nobleman goes mad.
Comedians are kidnapped by mobsters and forced to perform and comic is one of the victims
Everyone’s lives are put in jeopardy by the antics of a crazy old codger.
A man finds something interesting in an abandoned mansion.
A greedy merchant doesn’t want to leave until he’s swindled his customers, since he thinks he has plenty of time.
The mayor gets stuck on a quest. The adventurer’s guild sends the heroes after him.
A magician makes a person disappear right before an audience’s eyes.
You grab a bag carrying valuable items from an office and get arrested.
Show the story of a villain.
Police officer stops a burglary.
A princess is setting out on a quest to free herself from an evil dragon.
A witch/sorceress turns people into antiques.
A superhero has two identities.
A legendary jewel with the power to destroy the entire world shows up at the home of a billionaire.
Create a comic strip about a grandfather looking back on the life of his youth and recounting it to his children.
A woman gets pulled over for speeding, and the police officer finds a bag of cocaine under the seat.
A new restaurant is introduced and is the talk of the towns.
high schoolers on prom night have murder on their minds.
Mustangs running wild around town.
A parent is tricked into thinking his child is missing.
A man inherits a mystery painting in an old, worn-down house.
Power struggles emerge between scientists on a spaceship.
In a thriller, a detective is threatened by terrorists.
Two superhero brothers competing for the same woman.
Trouble ensues when a mother allows her child to start dating.
A mysterious and wretched creature inhabits a crypt.
Fashion-conscious woman is engaged to a man with bad taste.
Cats are invading a small town.
A death row inmate is granted his last wish – to have ice cream for breakfast.
A neighbor’s noisy dog is driving your character crazy.
An exhausted father tries to get some sleep, but he is kept awake by an infant’s crying.
A cunning villain is twisting tales, trying to frame a noble citizen.
Super school project about the strange properties of coal.
Hunters terrorize animals in the wilderness.
The world’s most famous detectives are stumped by a caper.
The evil queen takes over the kingdom and the handsome prince has never felt more helpless.
Best friends die protecting each other.
Orphan or homeless people come to the rescue of people who taunt them.
Guys spend the weekend in the country. It would involve a murder mystery. Two of the guests think that one of the other guys murdered the host. Plus it would have the humour of “The Big Sleep”.
Powerful corporations move in on a small town and change everything.
A royal family member threatens to ruin the royal family.
A Person is Handcuffed but doesn’t know who they looked at. Escape!
Criminal steals from their boss.
A vampire kidnaps a girl on her way to her graduation from a Japanese middle school.
Two kids hopelessly in love with each other, want to run away so that they can be together – but their parents just won’t allow it.
A gay man is attacked and left in critical condition, and a reporter tries to get to the bottom of the issue.
Friendship turned into obsession as a friend attempts to take the lead role in a musical.
Someone throws a malicious spell in the hope of putting an end to a family.
Witch is a misunderstood woman and becomes an orphan’s best friend.
The children’s ball was hit out of the field and into the neighbor’s swimming pool. And just who belongs to it?
A group of kids leave a baby dragon in a tree overnight.
Government workers discover that they have been working for the enemy this whole time – or that they don’t actually exist in the first place.
Artists break into a comic-book writer’s house and are discovered.
Hunters capture a rare animal, but it escapes.
Start with a typical family “sitting around the house on a lazy summer afternoon.” Some member of that family, typically the youngest – a child – will leave the room for a moment, and return with news of some supernatural being that seems very real, and that only s/he can see.
Someone is experiencing déjà vu.
A parent acts out a fantasy in front of his child.
A stranger in a strange land
George buys a winning lottery ticket- but before he can collect his prize, the clerk disappears.
Men from twelve clans try to win a bride in a coming of age trial.
A convicted man on death row refuses to show remorse for his crimes.
Write a comic about curious or quirky house pets.
Post-apocalypse series
A servant is about to be fired when he makes a startling discovery.
The good guys get a call that they are too close to the villain and need back up. All the good guys except one must leave because they cannot afford to be seen in public.
Young boy is about to have his 13th birthday, so he trots down to the big cemetery to retrieve Castle Grayskull and is greeted by Skeletor and his cohorts.
The audience will be able to respond to your comic, using stickers via text, video recording, or audio recording. There will be no time limit – you can let them watch or respond at their leisure, just like a video game.
A computer scientist receives an unsolicited apple from his admirer.
You have a day to live, what do you do?
A man who has never been in love gets trapped in the elevator with a beautiful girl and makes a fool of himself.
Draw first edition characters, or a historical comic book character.
Connecting to Things Existing
An old man is posting a birthday birthday to his late wife a year after she’s dead
A band of rogue adventurers steal a very valuable treasure
Some nefarious supervillain hatches a plot to destroy the world.
A couple is working on a math problem, and trying to decide what to do for lunch.
Draw a comic about how to create an invention.
Ambitious friends scheme to eliminate an annoying ‘nerd’ co-worker.
A husband and wife’s divorce is contentious and destructive.
Newspaper reporters go from writing about the news to being part of the news.
Small town grocery store owners start to suspect that one of their customers is a vampire.
Write a crime fiction story about an independent detective or someone in law enforcement
This is a great first step for aspiring cartoonists.
Evil conductors come back to life and steal the money from a charity concert.
Families take a holiday in a country home, soiree ensues.
Sneaky detective tracks down treasure stolen from a museum.
Two tenants in a Brooklyn apartment building get into a fight.
A corrupt politician is on trial for his life.
People are invited to the inaugural festivities of an amusement park.
An ordinary man gets caught up in a tournament for the greatest warriors in the world
“A drawing a week for a year”, is a journal for comics you specifically draw everyday for that year.
Have a comic that has a quiet character who is accidentally chosen to be on a dating game show.
Friends are successful, but they disagree on whether to get spouses.
A reporter is kidnapped by a gang working for a newspaper’s rival organization.
The dark side of the internet is soon discovered by an individual.
Encounter between a group of tough kids and a monster.
An underage girl is accidentally hired for her first job and fears she might lose it if her mom finds out.
Groundskeeper is murdered by someone he thought he knew
Detective begins to investigate a series of brutal slayings.
A house is haunted by ghosts, but nobody believes the homeowner.
A retiring superhero, superhero helps the police fight crime
Teenagers love to hang out in a cemetery before a big exam.
After Jack witnesses a murder, the witness protection program is called in to rescue him.
A father takes his teenage son along to see a boxer fight.
Abandoned in his youth, a man has to resort to becoming a cat burglar to make a living.
Heist a bank vault in the middle of a weekday, with lots of people watching!
A woman killed her husband ten years ago – now she’s released from prison but everyone remembers her as ‘the wife that killed her husband.’
The savage monster of a tragic fairytale wreaks havoc on modern civilization.
Tornado destroys downtown – people stop and help each other
During a trip through a dark forest people in a carriage are startled by a scary sound. It turns out to be some animal but when they approach it, they discover something less expected.
A dragon takes up residence in a small village.
Someone is rebelling against the rules of society
A television reporter travels to a remote location in the African jungles to investigate a legend that’s said to eat people.
A popular comic-book figure turns bad and his personal secretary tries to get him back on the rails.
Someone has an identity crisis.
Lemons accidentally get grafted on a lemon tree.
A farmer’s crops mysteriously begin to shrink.
A young man lives by his own code of honor. This leads to a gun battle with the police.
War breaks out – this time, the magic users are fighting against technology.
A surviving twin plots revenge against her sister.
There is only enough vaccine to save one certain type of person in town. Debate ensues that the one person to live should be based on something else other than the disease they’re fighting. A new drug for a particular disease has undergone preliminary trials. It shows some promise, but is it 100% safe? Later, follow up is needed and more detailed study is needed.
Choose any historical figure and create a comic which puts them in a humorous situation.
A mysterious disease spreads through a small town.
Dr. Cosmo Casius is experimenting on a newly discovered element, element Doppelganger 99. To his horror, he discovers that it acts just like basic steel – making it suitable for industry.
A photo destroyer erroneously snaps a pic of a celebrity that gets him fired.
A character witnesses a crime.
Movie theater has to close because of flooding.
A hero takes a pile of wannabe superheroes under his wing – but can he handle these wanna-bes?
Thieves infiltrate a school to deliver some illegal wares
Villains kidnap the mayor’s children
A thief attempts to steal just the right card to win the lottery.
A monster is loose, a town needs to be evacuated.
There is an ad selling lots of used records. Someone in the store says he will get rich.
Two vulture siblings try to swindle a widow out of her inheritance.
Kid accidentally turns himself into a giant
Bad weather forces clients at a health spa to take a pause from their work out of the station.
Donald is sent to a school for superheroes.
Inventors make a new machine.
Crazy fashion statements or ridiculous new trends make the town crazy.
Someone is leaving hidden objects around the house.
A clerk becomes a warrior when he is “Smacked in the Head” and is required to solve an energy crisis on another planet.
Write an acrostic poem about your favorite pet, and have different panel groups be the first letters of the rhyme.
Find Aladdin’s mystical lamp.
Dracula is coming to town at night when no one is safe
A magic trick goes terribly wrong.
A man stands on a ledge, plans to jump.
Please note that these are only sample ideas. You should compile your own list of ideas and create your unique comic.
A retired police officer tells police academy trainees about his toughest case.
A bequest is promised to a relative — but if he/she refuses to follow its terms, it will go to another person.
A henpecked husband is the villain
A large family road trip from Toronto to Vancouver – only Grandpa’s car breaks down in Smokey Bear territory.
A salesman encounters a really weird client.
Gangsters control a town and make it unsafe.
a woman carrying a baby travels to the neighbourhood to have it adopted – and years later the boy just happens to see his mother on TV as she wins the Nobel Prize.
Robbers steal an entire boxcar of furniture.
A man and wife attempt to get each other drunk during the first days of their honeymoon for a variety of laughs.
Kings once publicly announced foreign policy orders from the top of the tower.
The police have to fight a war against a deadly arsenal in the most crowded area of a big city.
Kids playing a game about their government vote for a non-government adult as their mayor.
A game warden is on a hunt for a game.
A man is kidnapped and kept underground in a locked room with only a phone.
Can a kidnapped celebrity parent be forced to give up an inheritance?
Detective stumbles into a haunted house, and the solved crime has been perpetrated by ghosts.
A nameless dead body has been captured by a police officer, but the chief refuses to extradite the spot.
A woman uses witchcraft to get the man of her dreams.
Bio of a human smuggler
A professor has accidentally created a beast who is growing in size and strength.
Acquaintances of someone who wanted to die arranged a funeral.
Robbers steal the birthday gift meant for a friend.
A superhero comes out of retirement.
A groundskeeper’s children knock out a priceless work of art.
A family goes on holiday.
Someone eats deadly sushi and falls into a coma.
Common Myths about the Middle Ages.
A supervillain becomes a do-gooder after going to jail.
A centenarian opens a time capsule and is unexpectedly thrust back into his youth.
Someone is threatening to reveal secrets about the main protagonist.
A wizard cloaks a town in an invisibility spell.
People on a bus or subway are mysteriously dying.
Ninja infiltrate a feudal castle
An eccentric inventor invents a machine that spins objects into cotton candy.
A famous painter is lost in a freak snowstorm and forced to stay with a small whiskey-drinking town. Color Temperature In Anime Tools to Create Rules for Combat 01 Listening to Your Podcast Audience 02 Creating Combat Statistics in Excel 03 Generating NPCs Quickly 04 Skills and Feats 05 Creating Monster Combat Statistics for Dummies 06 References and Reading 01 The Fantasy Ground Combat Rules 02 The Shadow of Yesterday Rules 03 The Shadow of Yesterday, The City of Gold 04 The Shadow of Yesterday, The Dwarven Museum 05 The Algae Planet Podcasts 01 Characters are Like Fine Wine — Christiana Ellis 02 Storytelling with Character Animator Pro 02 Setting goals for yourself 03 Questions Michael Utley-Marinick asks himself Writing Tools 01 Deciding Beginning vs. Middle Setup/Plot Points 02 Interesting things to hear 01 Making a List for Your Characters 02 Write Down 3 Small Things You Favourite to See in Fiction 03 Making a Backstory Theories 04 Building Your Own Setting War of Heroes One-
A man who’s just robbed a bank keeps feeling that someone is behind him.
A space captain is on a mission and must find Amelia Earhardt who is missing in action.
Someone is bullying your friend. How can you help?
Lovers suddenly split up after something terrible happens.
Postman tries to deliver letters to a town that is slowly becoming engulfed by a sand storm.
A mad scientist invents a device that promises to “go where no-one has gone before.”
A girl doubts she should go to college after getting a scholarship because her parents think she is smart enough to find a job.
Women get stuck in a fantasy world.
Someone should start work on a sci-fi comic…
Introspective comic picnicking among the works of art.
Friends get buried alive.
A solemn vow is made to keep a terrible secret.
Someone recovers from an unexplained illness.
A heavily-armored Dinosaur wades onto a peaceful beach.
Kidnappers stalk a wealthy family in order to get ransom money.
An instructor at the police academy’s son accidentally gets a low score on his exam. His friends try to help him get a higher score by secretly letting him retake the exam.
Two business people are about to get a business deal while on a luncheon date. They’re interrupted by a legal customer hoping to hire them.
The entire skyline of the city is rearranged overnight.
Lovers are about to get married — until their hidden pasts rear their ugly heads.
A famous athlete is accused of throwing a game for money.
A woman writes a monster to spring out from her closet – and it does!!
When you come up with another idea, write it down so you will never forget.
A man or woman wakes up in bed — but he or she doesn’t know who he or she is — or how he or she got there.
A mysterious woman begins killing adolescents, apparently at random.
Family moves to a new house and finds something hidden behind the wallpaper…
Superheroes battle giant insects!
Present a historical figure doing something that you’ve only read about.
A delivery man accidentally goes to the wrong house.
A person is going through the troubles and drama accompanying a “mid-life crisis”.
Scientists in a lab are locked in. The smart one makes it out.
Ancient art returns to a noble house.
Introduce a new line of products into a café.
An election is upon the town – who will be elected mayor – a long time mayor or a fresh new mayor?
A fantasy character is transported to the real world
A celestial being grants a wish for a man who has everything but is unhappy.
Supermarket managers try to take criminals down.
The story swings between soppy comedy and heart-breaking drama.
Someone discovers a strange book in a used bookstore.
Society women are cheating on their unsociable, unkind husbands.
Comic Idea about a late night radio murder mystery.
A scientist invents a time machine.
Show how a “timeless” phrase was misunderstood.
A teenager stands his ground against his peers bullying a geek
A hero disagrees with his arch-rival on the treatment of their adversaries.
A boy buys a pet puppy over the internet. What will happen?
An owl is spotted in the middle of a city. A news channel tries to learn what it’s doing there.
People don’t vote because they think their one vote will not make a difference.
A giant monster stomps through downtown.
A library with a warm, inviting front. The inside, however, is dark and full of terrors.
A young boy discovers there’s another scientist in his family who is even more brilliant than his mother.
A summer romance turned sour
Famous movie star gets kidnapped as part one in a long-running scheme to steal the ‘Funny Money’ from a community’s private kitty.
A woman sees a magic shop and wants all the magic in the store.
A grandfather spins wild stories about his heroic exploits while hunting for food in the summer of 1945.
A new army general rises to power by eliminating anyone who dissents with his views.
Artists conceptualize alternative worlds connected with computers.
A dirty cop has a stash of gangster money locked in a safe.
A detective comes across a murder scene while investigating a robbery.
Wild animals are moving into town.
A comedian gives his audience the unvarnished truth.
Somebody thinks he’s adopted but actually he was switched at birth.
An heiress is about to inherit a billion-dollar company, but her villainous uncle is attempting to take it all away.
Family or friends fall victim to a stranger’s curse.
Two brothers get inside each other’s head.
A treasure hunter feels treasure hunting is his birthright.
The tale about your parents falling in love.
Superhero discovers that they have a secret sibling, also new, who has been trying to find them.
The story of a magic vase – imagine that.
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Friend defends a friend in trouble with the police.
School is in session. Who is yours?
A hero gets tricked by a villain.
A well-known crime is being investigated in a town, with the mayor being implicated.
Acts of nature bring people together at a remote rest-stop off a highway.
Lover’s quarrel.
A chimney sweep ends up as a new apprentice in a wizard’s workshop.
A sleazy politician – or someone close to him – is caught on tape accepting a pay-off.
An evil clown runs for mayor.
A powerful psychic is hunted by an ancient supersoldier.
A farmer must break wild horses
Lovers are about to meet – until one of them suddenly disappears.
Your protagonist wakes up in a strange house to kindly family.
Witches are declared legal by the evil queen.
A greedy uncle swindles a naive nephew out of his inheritance.
Ivy asks Harley to be maid of honor for her wedding.
A woman’s husband is going to be shipped off to war. She is afraid he’s going to be killed.
A paranormal TV show host is interviewed by a tabloid reporter and accidentally reveals his secret.
A sense of irony would be appreciated. Please!
A grifter needs to be helped when he is in trouble.
A professional artist paints within the lines, but unfortunately succumbs to his greed and draws something obscene. A pitchman with an exaggerated hand-gesture pitches his product.
A robot that is trying to identify what it means to be human.
There’s been a long winter – but one year a little girl wakes to flowers growing on her windowsill.
Mother feels run down and needs rest but the kids keep her on her feet.
A mischievous ghost torments the owners of an old mansion.
Teenagers treasure the miniature body of a dead Nazi leader.
A small town is turned upside down when it learns its main employer might be leaving.
After being conned by a corrupt politician, a radio show host out for revenge investigates the scandals plaguing the region.
A couple babysits for their neighbours’ primitive tribe of tribals while the eldest members of the family take a vacation
Branch from current plot line of one of your stories – newspaper headline.
A girl must choose between two boys.
A family discovers a time warp.
Vigilantes try to take down gangsters and cause chaos in the city
The elderly caretaker of a historic building has a secret.
This list can be based on television shows that you may have seen or read comic books.
A musical is staged on an old, supposedly-haunted theater
Father goes out of town, leaving the kids home alone.
Composer who gets a gig for a new opera, but no one showed up to hear it.
The great explorer Mad-dog Michael Carroll disappears soon after marrying and leaving for his latest trip into the jungle. The hero stars in an epic Legend.
Trainee heroines fight against their mentor.
A young architect’s building collapses after faulty construction occurs.
The police are investigating the suspicious disappearance of an elderly woman.
A famous curator at a major museum has a liking for his pre-Columbian statues.
The police force needs stronger laws and tougher punishments to protect the city.
At a library, my love of comics is discovered by a popular, pretty librarian.
A girl goes to work at a spooky hotel.
A child receives a special birthday gift.
A guy who can’t speak falls in love with a beautiful girl – but falls off a boat. It looks like she loves him, too – until he attempts to tell her so.
A stowaway invades a spaceship on relaunch.
A student causes havoc during a school field trip.
A minister screws up his nomination of his replacement, and needs his help to fix his mistake.
Thieves disguise themselves as a blind beggar and go hungry to rob unsuspecting hard-working men.
A rock star goes missing just before a big show or a crucial recording session.
After their sister has been killed, three brothers vow revenge.
A rock star wants to walk the straight and narrow.
There are some secrets that are best buried
The president informs everyone that a comet is about to hit Earth.
Hermes is in a bad relationship with Aphrodite.
A person that was given an opportunity to become a superhero overnight, but during the night crisis he realizes he does not want it to happen.
A candle maker has to use a magic candle to save his town from an evil witch.
Superstore Employee or Employee of the Month?
Someone finds out his/her unborn baby isn’t their own.
Write about a time when your dad or mom wouldn’t let you do something.
A newly wed girl is the only one able to identify her dead husband’s killer.
How about an old fashioned ‘villain comes to town, fights up against the superhero’ piece?
Two workers working on the Space Elevator become trapped when it starts to malfunction.
A snotty rich kid travels to a foreign nation under a false identity in order to discover more about world poverty and culture.
Someone important to you is kidnapped.
A travel essay to St. Martin or another part of the Caribbean
Young girl suddenly turns 18 and becomes a goddess. There isn’t a suitably dignified temple for her to be housed in, so she moves out of her parent’s house and into an apartment complex. There, she falls in love with a poor boy who has a crush on her. How does she express her love to him?
A vigilante attempts to catch the rogue tormenting the city.
Take a simplified fairy tale, maybe one from a well-known book meant for children, or a made-up one, and add dark elements.
A star athlete is accused of selling drugs.
Two siblings find a treasure map and go searching for buried treasure.
You should ensure that you don’t forget about them. A great way to do that is to write them down. You don’t need to follow a particular format, as it isn’t important. The main thing is that you remember your ideas. That way you won’t struggle when it finally comes to writing the comic.
During a middle of the night thunderstorm, a widow you stumble upon in a graveyard turns out to be a ghost.
The death of a famous rock star
Little old man loves his dog, but finds out evil plans are to put the dog to sleep for scientific research.
A sea creature supplies power for the nation.
Mechanical voice-over devices of some sort are activated.
A high-ranking official is shown to be corrupt.
Thieves plot to steal a fortune in jewels.
An awesome house with a weird owner
Creatures are terrorizing the city.
Parents discover the pet’s mysterious power.
A werewolf gets a job as a zookeeper.
What if we can determine the future by studying fate in tarot cards?
A queen becomes obsessed about a magic mirror.
Winners of a popular reality show are selected to work alongside a popular actor and are relocated to the actor’s old mansion where they are terrorized by a ghost.
Kids pick up a cursed mask that turns them into vicious, thoughtless savages.
A star student plans to trick his school and the world into believing he can fly.
Villains have a “capture the flag” war but must be very careful no one finds the flag.
Historical clothing and lifestyle.
Artists use a new artificial emotion that can steal life.
Famous explorer goes on “one last adventure.” You can also put a twist on this idea. For example, he/she feels he must prove to someone that he can do what no one else has done, or he’s trying to find a poison antidote and en route, he stumbles upon a cache of gold Nuggets.
Creatures are trying to take over the planet.
A father asks his children to vote to see who has to move out of state.
Braves hunting bison outrun their horses, needing help from Native Americans to get home.
A con-artist steals priceless paintings.
A new invention promises to revolutionize society.
Child is saying goodbye to his neighborhood friends before going off on a school trip.

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