Cosy & slice of life · 9 ideas

Nine slice-of-life comic ideas.Take one. Make it yours.

Small places, regulars, one gentle impossible thing. A cosy comic lives on its cast coming back every issue, so each of these comes with a place the story can return to: a bakery, a laundromat, a café at the end of the pier.

Press start on any of them and it lands in the premise box of a new comic, where every word is yours to change. Then you pick a look, meet the cast, and Panel & Ink writes and draws the first issue.

No. 1
Two teenage witches run a seaside bakery where every cake grants one small wish, and the regulars keep asking for the wrong ones.
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No. 2
A grumpy retired chef is roped into teaching the noisy kids next door to cook, and they turn out to be shockingly good.
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No. 3
A travelling librarian drives her bookmobile to towns that aren't on any map.
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No. 4
The last laundromat on the block stays open all night, and everyone who comes in has a story they've never told.
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No. 5
A widowed florist starts receiving orders for funeral flowers from people who are still very much alive.
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No. 6
Three old friends restore a broken carousel one horse per summer, and this is the last horse.
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No. 7
A café at the end of the pier only opens during storms, and the owner knows every customer's name before they say it.
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No. 8
A cartoonist's comic strip in the local paper starts predicting her neighbours' lives.
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No. 9
A night-market chef cooks one dish a night that makes whoever eats it remember something they had forgotten.
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