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.
Silent Movies - 2007/03/17 08:19I love Comic Life! I've been using this product, with rave reviews, since last May with teachers and classes in our school district. It is the best application for "hooking" students into writing that I've seen in a long time...if ever!
One idea you may like to try with your students is to create a "silent movie". You do this by using multiple pages of one photo. Have the characters in your photo talk to each other. Rule: One balloon per page. These pages then become the "slides" for your silent movie which are then exported to QuickTime for viewing.
You can read more detailed instructions and look at a sample silent movie on my website at
Re:Silent Movies - 2007/03/17 22:04I love it, Ginny! Now that version 1.3 can copy and paste to other apps, you can use the images and balloons in other apps (like Keynote if the school has iWork) and use Comic Life as the engine to support a wide variety of interactive activities!
Also, if you use them in conjunction with video editing, you may want to point teachers to FreePlay music.
Re:Silent Movies - 2007/04/17 14:14Hi! I'm really excited to see your movie . . . I'm having some trouble getting it to load. Is this link still active?
Re:Silent Movies - 2007/04/30 12:05Ginny, Thank you for this great idea! I am working with my students right now - we're creating a movie for our principal that's based on _The Important Book_. We used the camera in the MacBook to take pics of the small teams. I can't wait to show it to her!
Now that version 1.3 can copy and paste to other apps, you can use the images and balloons in other apps (like Keynote if the school has iWork) and use Comic Life as the engine to support a wide variety of interactive activities!
