April 12, 2005
My Life As a Comic
Plasq releases a Comic Life, an OS X app that helps you build comics using iPhoto libraries or other image files. $39.99 to purchase, but a 30-day, fully functional (as far as I can tell) trial is available. The support system is slick, at least for rank novice comic artists: templates with different patterns of empty cells; many types of word balloons; intuitive drag-and-drop; resizing, and cropping (complete with goofy sound effects). You wouldn't be making the next Sandman or Watchmen with this, but it's pretty fun nonetheless. (And I'm guessing even a good comic artist might be able to use this for roughing out some storyboards or whatever the hell comic artists do prior to actually sketching out the start of their production drawings.)
I whacked this out in about ten minutes using an iPhoto album from a concert in Lake Placid last August, featuring Underdog, Donna the Buffalo, one of the guys from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Sonny Landreth, and David Hidalgo on and off stage with Los Lobos. Like I said, it ain't art--not even serial art--but still, you can probably see the app has some potential.
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