How do I cope with none of my ideas being original I've

>>94752231
Don't draw inspiration from other fiction, take it from real life. Leave your bubble and go see the world. Draw what you see. Write what you think. People that are make cartoons based on other cartoons won't make good cartoons, Miyuzaki is write about that. He didn't want to be a storyteller, he just lived a rich life, and that gave him ideas.

>>94752231
Tropes are not bad.

>>94753618
This, but you can draw ideas from other people's work. Take an idea, a trope a concept or something you want. Then explore it and the word around you. Explore how you want to make it look, how you want to make it feel. What ideas spring to your mind. How would you make them work. So on and so forth.

Then you can create a story.

>>94752231
Give us some examples, anon. Sometimes originality is as simple as "X with a twist of Y". Invincible is just Spider-Man as Superman; Batman Beyond is Spider-Man as Batman; COPRA is Suicide Squad as done by a mix of Ditko/Janson art comic -- all 3 are hugely acclaimed. It's how much of your vision you put into the thing.

>>94752231
Just take an idea you like and develop it a lot. The more thought and personality you put in it the more yours it is.

>>94752231
Fucking deal with it. Execution trumps originality any day

>>94756102

But that execution has to come from originality. It can be the same trope, but it has to be done in an original way. Then, execution trumps originality.

And OP, what the others said: Try to get some experience in life if you haven't already (then get some more) and if you can't come up with something totally original, try to think of ways that that idea could be told in a different way. Order of elements, style and tone, some character types replaced. Also, if you tell stories from life like in American Splendor, you don't need to produce wholly original fare, mundanity and slice of typical life is what people look for in those comics.

>>94752231
Think of it this way.

Chicken, right? You got chicken, one of the most popular foodstuffs in the world. Now, all chicken dishes, naturally, contain a lot of chicken. That's the base. That's what you're worried about being unoriginal.

Originality isn't what's at the base, especially in storytelling, it's how you flavour the chicken. Method of cooking, spices used, hell, presentation. That's what makes a special dish.