'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.
This 1.3.5 update changes where default temp files are saved, to reflect the recommended guidelines; resolving some issues affecting some schools. This update also includes several other fixes.
This is a free update for all users and can be downloaded from our Downloads page.
Major Stablity Issues - 2008/05/13 21:37I was TRYING to use some of the effects but this program keeps crashing. It is so unstable, that it is basically unuseable.
I already trashed the pref's & that did no good and sent PLASQ all of these crash reports but still have not heard of a fix.
Did you also click on the "Contact" link above to send information to plasq that way? Once they have your information, they can work with you via email to determine what the problem is and how to resolve it.
I haven't done anything over 6 pages yet but, while there are some bugs, I haven't had any crashes that I can reproduce (of course, the non-reproducible ones are always more annoying!!)
Re:Major Stablity Issues - 2008/05/15 12:34It's also crashing like there's no tomorrow on my machine.
I've sent bug reports to plasq, but in its current state of stability this application is not usable. If this were a public beta I'd have no issue, but this is a full version and I have paid money for it, so I'm mildly annoyed...
I'm sorry to hear your experience of Comic Life Magiq has not been a smooth one so far.
For the vast majority of people, as far as we can tell, and as far as our beta testing period has shown us, Comic Life Magiq is a very stable application.
However, that does not negate the issues you are experiencing, and we're keen to solve them. We appreciate the crash reports and are looking into them. If you'd like a personal reply, then the best solution is to send us an email via out Support page (above). This way we can ask more detailed questions about usage, hardware, software and hopefully get some examples of comic documents that are crashing for you. Unfortunately sometimes bugs are very obscure, and it's a mystery that needs a number of reports to find the commonality.
If there are other people out there experiencing crashing like this, then we're very keen to hear about it.
Re:Major Stablity Issues - 2008/05/21 04:46On my PPC iMac the programme is also crashing repeatedly, even when doing basic things like selecting a template, and it is unusable.
I have sent in the error reports; and in response to your question below, I am not using any kind of font manager.
I'm not impressed, particular as I have previously successfully enjoyed using Comic Life. I hope you can quickly offer an acceptable fix.
