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.
Comic Life comics won't open in Magiq!!! - 2008/05/09 02:27I just upgraded to Magiq. Very exciting, I thought, I've been really anticipating this upgrade- But to my horror, all my old comics, about a year and a half of comics done in the previous version, WILL NOT OPEN IN MAGIQ!!! Please tell me there is a way to fix this. I rely on Comic Life EVERY WEEK to put out my newspaper strip (which can be seen on my website under "schmoozeblog") and I was hoping to do way more with Magiq so I need to get this fixed a.s.a.p. PLEASE!!!
Re:Comic Life comics won't open in Magiq!!! - 2008/05/09 02:46Hello there John,
Thanks for contacting us and for purchasing Comic Life Magiq.
Comic Life Magiq is a completely new application and shares little in common with Comic Life and least of all in the way it handles its internal data. We're thinking of providing an importer in a future update.
If a feature of this kind is important to you please let us know in these forums.
Very sorry for the inconvenience - but you may still use your previous Comic Life version to open your old comic files.
You may like to experiment exporting as a .pdf file and importing into Comic Life Magiq if there are elements you like to use on each new comic.News, hints and sock puppet antics - Sign up to our mailing list: http://plasq.com/register
Re:Comic Life comics won't open in Magiq - 2008/05/09 04:25Add my name to the list of disappointed.
Suspect I’ll just stick with Comic Life as I didn’t really need all the extra “bells and whistles” (too much choice) but bought it anyway to reward you for your great work on the original application.
Re:Comic Life comics won't open in Magiq - 2008/05/09 22:53Hear, hear - I don't have a year's worth of work (only 10 single page comics), but I fully expected to click on my old comics and have them open in Magiq.
The other annoyance is that somehow, when I click on .comicdoc files, it tries to open them with Magiq, even though the default is standard Comic Life.
Re:Comic Life comics won't open in Magiq - 2008/05/09 23:19Me too. There is an old saying which plasq should take heed of - if it aint broke don't fix it. An upgrade of comic life (or more bells and whistles) was what i expected to pay for. Now all I've got is unuseable comics plus a useless WATER MARK, gummin up the works. I am slightly miffed and even a little angry!!!
Re:Comic Life comics won't open in Magiq - 2008/05/10 06:54Hi sean, I'm sorry to hear you're getting miffed!
Comic Life Magiq should *not* open Comic Life documents when you double click on them. This was a problem with very early betas - so perhaps you have one of them sitting around? We cannot replicate that problem here.. but want to solve this for you!
In Mac OS, you can always open a document in the application of choice by dragging the document/file to the applications icon in the dock. Alternatively, right-click (or control-click) and select the application of choice from the "Open with >" option.
gibsonm
Thanks for your support - it means a lot to us! If you want, you can always close the Details (left side) section in Comic Life Magiq and not even see any of the details. This can be a nice way to 'keep things simple'. There are a few features, like the Auto-snip tool for cutting out images that I think will prove themselves invaluable over time.. we'd love to know what you find, or don't find useful in Comic Life Magiq.
