Clickwheel.net are on a
quest to bring online comics to the masses. They released a
comics reader for the iPod Touch and iPhone in the summer. This week Clickwheel
launched a new website Comicbrush.
Comicbrush brings content creation
tools to a web based system. What that means is anyone who wants to make a
comic can using the tools on Comicbrush. You simply upload any images you own
and want to use, whether they are photos, drawings, or computer generated art,
and Comicbrush gives you the tools to manipulate them into panels, add word
balloons and captions, and give yourself a final product. The big difference to
other comic book creator software is that it is free!
The free part extends to using your own content, sharing it via email, Facebook
(and other social networks) or to iPod Touch/iPhone. In addition to these,
Comicbrush will regularly release premium artpacks. These will contain works
done by professional artists commissioned by Tim Demeter, and will include
images and characters from 2000AD, which shares a parent company with the site.
These packs’ cost will be displayed in points, with each costing about 600. New
users will be started off with 1000, so premium content is available for free
right when you sign up. In addition to that, users can purchase points at
around five US Dollars for 2500 point pack, plus a bonus 150 points. This
equates to 2.5 GBP, which is what all European users will pay in for the time
being. Prices are displayed automatically by the region the user logs in from.
Several new art packs will go up monthly, with at least one from each group
being free. They even plan to allow users to suggest artpacks that will include
items or people they want to use in their stories.
Comicbrush is ultimately about making
comic creation simple and free (or at least relatively inexpensive). Demeter
says they just want “to introduce the fun
of creating and sharing comics to anyone and everyone.”
Thanks for this Ollie; it looks fantastic. Now I just need to get the site freed up at school (blasted Websense!)
Posted by: andy wallis | October 02, 2008 at 08:44 AM
Hey this looks really good, might give this to my first years after they've done a bit of photo editing.
Posted by: Andy McSwan | October 02, 2008 at 04:37 PM
Glad you got the link okay - for once Newsarama is useful for something other than slagging off Joe Quesada.
Posted by: Gavin | October 02, 2008 at 10:56 PM
Cheers, will finish off my two S2 classes Graphic Novels trial with issuing a fortnight HW with this software. Thanks.
Posted by: Nick | October 03, 2008 at 07:32 PM
If I kept up with my RSS feeds, I would have seen this post before writing mine - http://edcompblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/fun-on-friday-5-comicbrush.html Thanks for filling in some details about how the site will work.
Posted by: David | October 05, 2008 at 12:31 AM