Hello! Allow me to introduce you to Michael Elliot. Or, as we know him, Mick. His background is mainly in Advertising, but for his own enjoyment he has written and illustrated comics. “I started playing with Comic Life when it was…
Tip Of The Week: Editing Styles
Hello Everyone! This week’s tip will show you where to find pre-designed styles in the Comic Life 2 UI and how to edit them. As always, let me know if you have any questions or requests!
Tip of The Week: Sound Effects
This week we’ll show you how to create great looking comic sound effects and some tips on creating outside the box!
Comic Life 2 for iOS
Now you can create comics on your iPhone and iPod Touch! Comic Life at your fingertips anytime and anywhere. You’ll still have all of the great features from Comic Life for iPad, and it looks amazing on the iPhone and…
Tip Of The Week: Comic Grammar
The world of lettering comics is vast, with all sorts of little rules and tricks of the trade. Traditionally comics were lettered by hand and written in all capitals for easy reading. Add this history to the advances of digital…
From Flyers to Books
With Comic Life you’re not limited to one specific type of product. You can make graphic novels, posters, title pages, newsletters, scrapbook pages and so much more! Here is an example from Jodie of how Comic Life can be used…
Tip of the Week: Lettering
This week’s tip is an introduction to lettering in Comic Life. There is so much to do with lettering that we will have to do multiple comics to cover everything. For now here are some tips on changing the shape,…
Tip Of The Week: Balloon Placement
Hello All! We’re starting a new adventure together, Tip of the Week! Every week I’ll put up a comic that has tips about creating comics and using Comic Life. Feel free to make requests about features and things you’d like…
A Bee-utiful Comic
The wonderful folks over at Happy Flame Candles created a very informative and useful comic all about bees and the cool things they do. The star of the comic, a bubbly honey bee named Hillary, buzzes us through fun facts…
Making Presentations Interesting Again
How many Power Point Presentations have you sat through in your lifetime? How many do you actually remember enjoying? Well, here is a solution to all of your presentation woes. Brought to you from Bruce, one of our Comic Life…
Comic Life for iPad in Action
François is a teacher and main writer of the Sicestpasmalheureux blog, filling his posts with innovative ways to use technology in the classroom. In his blog post you can see a short video of students using Comic Life for iPad. They’re…
Community Helpers Project
Thanks to a wonderful plasq community member, Steve Ignacio, here’s a great project for Elementary Students, grades 3 and up. In Steve’s original post on our plasq forum he described the project for us: This is a project for elementary /…
Creating Multi-Page Comics in Comic Life for iPad
When you open any comic in the editor mode you will be presented with the same menu options no matter if you’re using the blank page or a template. You can access your comics pages by tapping on the “Page”…
New Comic Kits!
Hey y’all! If you have ever wanted to make a whole world using drawn characters but just don’t have the time or the skill to draw everything? Well then, let me recommend Comic Kits. The people over at Comic Kits…
Accessing Template Features in Comic Life 2
Hello All! Here is a quick tutorial on how to access the Template, Panel Layout and Page View options that we have in Comic Life 2. When you open Comic Life you will be presented with the Template Chooser. Select…