Monday, 25 February 2008

Creating comic strips online


This article states how the medium of comic strips can develop literacy. And the MFLE website has some hints and tips for making and using comic strips. Quite a few comic strip sites have been added to our del.icio.us recently, the latest being Pixton at http://www.pixton.com/home where you can create a comic or a whole book and show it online.
At http://www.adgame-wonderland.de/type/bayeux.php there is a historical comic ‘construction kit’ based on the style of the Bayeux tapestry. Then there are tutorials for Sketchcast at http://sketchcast.com/category/Tutorial/ and Storytime from Dr Seuss at http://www.seussville.com/games_hb/storymaker/story_maker.html . Create your own comic strips at http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ and especially for children the comic creator at http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/

The children at the homework club seem to like Toondoo best at http://www.toondoo.com/Login.toon?param=log

1 comment:

toonlet said...

You might also want to try toonlet as well. Rather than focus on photos or clip art, toonlet puts the focus on character creation, and features a powerful avatar tool so you can make characters that look authentically hand-drawn.

From there, it's easy to build out a library of moods for your characters to use in their comic strips.

Swing on by and check out the site, or take the toonlet tour:
http://www.toonlet.com/tour

Let us know what you think!

Thanks!
-Craig (from toonlet)