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.
