Comic Touch released for iPhone / iPod Touch
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!

Learn more about Comic Touch here or purchase it instantly from the iTunes App store.

Comic Touch - it's new!

   
'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!

Chocolate & Chat: Writing for Teens and Young Adults

   
Comic Life Magiq 1.0.1 update released
A free update for Comic Life Magiq is available for all users!

This 1.0.1 update has many tweaks and bug fixes to improve the performance of Comic Life Magiq.

Get the update from the plasq Downloads page.

   
Comic Life Magiq released!
We're all super proud to announce something very special: Comic Life Magiq - our brand new addition to the Comic Life family.

Comic Life Magiq sports gorgeous themed templates, a cool image editor and a whole bunch of new creative options.

Download the trial (you'll need Mac OS 10.5.2 "Leopard") and let us know what you think!

It is available for purchase today at our online store and we have USD$29.95 crossgrades available if you own Comic Life or it came with your Mac!

Comic Life Magiq - it's new!

   
Comic Life packs a lot of 'Brawn'!
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.

   
Doozla 1.1 released
Roll up! Roll up! A Doozla update has been released.

Doozla 1.1 brings a bunch of new features, tweaks and 34 new Coloring-in templates and 9 new colorful backgrounds.

Check out the release notes for all the fun details.

This is a free update and you can get it from our Downloads page.

   
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2nd Grade Storytelling Project - 2005/08/26 06:28 Just noticed this forum on education and thought I'd share a project I did with my son's 2nd grade class in June.

We used Comic Life as the springboard for a three-day project on Visual Storytelling. Here's how we did it:

DAY ONE: Show samples of comic books & comic strips, discuss the "grammar" of visual storytelling. Split class into teams of three. Each team picks one of their favorite stories they read during the year. Figure out how to depict their story in 6-8 comic panels on a single page.

DAY TWO: Teams photographed their stories, using digital cameras and simple props/costumes.

DAY THREE: Teams used Comic Life to import their photos and build their comic pages, adding titles, captions and dialog as needed.

Over the following weekend, I posted their comics on my mac.com page, and printed a copy of each kid's comic for them to keep.

Here's the link to the kids' comics.

The project was a HUGE hit. Thanks to the plaqeteers for helping so many kids have fun while learning about storytelling!

Adam

P.S. I've attached the "Class Notes" that I wrote up for the teacher.
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Post edited by: ajbezark, at: 2005/08/26 06:35
Adam J. Bezark
The Bezark Company
www.bezark.com
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Re:2nd Grade Storytelling Project - 2005/08/28 22:35 That is excellent! thanks! Cris aka atariboy - CEO & Designer - blog: atariboy.com
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Re:2nd Grade Storytelling Project - 2006/02/07 07:58 great job!!
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Re:My reply - 2006/04/26 08:14 Nice.
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Re:My reply - 2006/05/01 12:00 Jeez, guys - can you do anything to stop the spam?

Thanks,
Adam
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Re:2nd Grade Storytelling Project - 2008/05/14 00:05 Good morning - how great that grade 2s can put something like this 2gether! Very inspiring.

I tried to open your pdf file but got an error. Would really like to see it.
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