Trying out social comics

Posted on March 9, 2008 by Benjamin Koe

Michael first mentioned to me a plan to build a web version of the famed Mac comic creator Comic Life during the after party at Nexus 2007.

Today, Comiqs is in beta, has appeared on TechCrunch, and is off to a great start. I couldn’t help but give it a little play myself.

I’m not daring enough to post/embed my creation here, but here are a couple of points I picked up about the Web 2.0 comic creator:

The Good:

  • Great editor layout. Items to pick on the left, layout in the middle, and options on the right. So simple a 5-year-old could be the next Stan Lee.
  • Love the Cartoonish filter!
  • Great Web 2.0 embedding and sharing.

    The Bad (a.k.a the wish list)

  • The editor could use a bit more functions like image zoom within when placed in the comic boxes.
  • Images appear low-res. Probably for the sake of storage and bandwidth just like YouTube.
  • Nothing in the properties box? I think that’s coming up soon.

    From the comics that have been created on the site, I realise that there’s a potential extension of the how-to “industry” here. Many of the posts are around how to get things done and explained very well in comics. Maybe I’ll try my next how-to as a comic.

    Here’s a quick video demo for those interested in finding out more.

    Comiqs competes against: StripGenerator, PikiStrips and Toondoo.

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    One Response to “Trying out social comics”

    1. Jason Ho, on March 10th, 2008 at 4:59 pm Said:

      oooo..new comic software..I have been using Comic Life and am loving it man..now with another software making its foray..I am interested to see how it goes man..keke…

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