Comic Life is great for sharing those funny little moments from school, in the office, or while on worldwide progressive-rock-legends tours.
Robert Fripp and Tony Levin have been sharing the day-to-day stories of touring within one of the most influential prog rock bands - on King Crimson’s 40th Anniversary Tour.
Ever wished you had the fun of Comic Life handy at all times? Ever been out at a party, family gathering or on public transport and wished you could add your 'comic touch' to a photo? Now you can!
We're giggling with glee to announce Comic Touch for iPhone and iPod Touch. Add various speech balloons and captions to your photos. Choose a fun special effect to warp and bend your family and friends, then email the results to them!
'Chocolate & Chat: Writing for Teens and Young Adults’ tour!
plasq is proud to announce that we are sponsoring authors
James McCann and
kc dyer on their 'Chocolate & Chat: Writing for Teens and Young Adults’ tour.
The tour will go through Western Canadian Rocky Mountains from July 7-15th, 2008, with stops in Banff, Calgary, Red Deer, Cochrane, Kamloops, Salmon Arm and Kelowna. Click here for tour dates.
If you live nearby make sure you go along and say "Hi" for us! You may also enter a draw to win a copy of Comic Life Magiq or Comic Life Deluxe at each stop!
You can follow the authors travels on their websites - James McCann and kc dyer - where they will be doing a comic for each stop when they have a chance, using - you guessed it - Comic Life!
Cranium Comics has recently launched their first four color comic, Brawn #1.
"I used Comic Life on my Mac exclusively to lay out the storyboards, then later when I created and colored all 24 pages of the issue," recounted Anthony Rezendes, the owner of Cranium Comics and co-creator of Brawn.
The comic 'Brawn' focuses on a dockworker named Sam Ross who was reborn as the hero "Brawn" after he was nearly killed in a drunk driving accident.
"Being an illustrator, it saved me quite a bit of time from having to lay all the text bubbles out manually. It made the process of actually creating the comic that much more enjoyable," Mr. Rezendes added.
We think this comic is great! So check out 'Brawn' on the Cranium Comics site or read the first 5 pages on our Comic Life gallery.
Re:Download Comic Life Windows beta - 2007/05/21 15:31Ken J wrote: I think the program is great. I teach inner city kids (middle School) and was shown the program in a professional development course at our school. I even won a copy of the deluxe edition, the only problem is I have a Windows Vista OS!
When can I purchase a Windows version? And how long can we use the beta? It says it expires...in X days...
The beta will be usable until the 1st of July and we plan to release a full version before then. At this time, we will then make Comic Life for sale.
To use it until the 1st of July, you have to register it using the below details:
Register using these details: Name or Organization: Beta Tester Serial Number: CMLFW1-665C-A113-D628-BF57-01A6
Re:Download Comic Life Windows beta - 2007/05/21 15:34We plan to release another beta very soon which should address this issue. Please check back in a couple of weeks, and please let us know if you are still having issues.
Thanks.
nickv wrote: No, i am afraid there are no crash.dmp files anywhere on my system. I have no idea what is causing it. Any thoughts? Are there any programs that you know it has issues with? regards, nick v
Kramy wrote: nickv wrote: I have just downloaded + installed comic life on xp with sp2 installed, but when i open it an error message saying 'missing shortcut' pops up. I have unistalled and reinstalled but it still happens. Unfortunately it is behind the comic life icon when it comes up so i can't get any more details. After closing the error message in task manager the program opens but then closes automatically... Any thoughts? i would love to get this working on my computer!
Nickv, are any crash.dmp files created in your Comic Life folder?
If so can you please email them to clwinbeta@plasq.com
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Re:Download Comic Life Windows beta - 2007/05/22 07:07Well done. And congrats to the porter (I see they have usually experience the other way around actually). I was surprised (happily) to see how faithfully the port sticked to the CL's spirit, and how far the port was pushed (It must have been quite a lot of work to recreate all these effects that are given for free by Mac OS). I guess the influx of feedback from the "dark side" will make CL evolve for the best.
Although we must be careful not to fall into the fateful trap of the cluttered interface (I think of tiny parts of the feedback of cybrpunk: most of his requests are spot-on, some of them -about adding more controls on the toolbar- might stem from another UI approach.) I second, on the other hand, his request for numerical input fields for some controls (all the width controls etc. It makes hard to replicate between elements). But in the details view.
All in all, a very agreable surprise, and I am ready to bet, a bright future for both CL versions. (It will be a challenge to keep both versions up to par) A tiny bit sad to lose one of the "unfair" last resort arguments I was using to convince friends to buy a Mac... But glad to see how far and well CL has grown, on to conquer the world(s).
Well done guys!
Now, fasten you seatbelts, the doors of hell are about to open, and zillions of users will come with weird requests, complaints, bugs, ... and sometimes, as it is already the case, with thanks and congratulations.
Re:Download Comic Life Windows beta - 2007/05/22 19:13Well isn't that just great! I saw this program a few years ago and instantly fell in love. However I have been working in the PC field for 20 plus years. I showed it to friends, installed it on demo computers in the stores and just loved it. I really hated that I couldn't find it for the Windows scene.
I found a comparable program for Windows, but it just wasn't the same.
I now teach English in Korea and I went and bought a MacBook with it installed (pretty much the ONLY reason I bought the MacBook).
I love it!!!! Thanks for the product and now doubly thanks for the Windows Beta. I've downloaded it and will show my children how to use it.
My Korean students really like it when I make a comic book for them to read about our exploits here as teachers.
Re:Download Comic Life Windows beta - 2007/05/22 22:40What version of Windows will this be compatible with? I just bought a new computer and it came with Vista. I have the Beta version and it works fine but I figured I would throw that out there.
Re:Download Comic Life Windows beta - 2007/05/24 17:35Thank you xrissley and Shawn for the positive comments
Susan wrote: What version of Windows will this be compatible with? I just bought a new computer and it came with Vista. I have the Beta version and it works fine but I figured I would throw that out there.
It will be compatible with XP and Vista.
Some users are experiencing some issues installing on both, but we are trying to work that out.
Would also like to hear feedback on how people have gone registering with the Beta key on Vista - some people seem to be having issue when selected "All Users On This Computer".
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I think the program is great. I teach inner city kids (middle School) and was shown the program in a professional development course at our school. I even won a copy of the deluxe edition, the only problem is I have a Windows Vista OS!
