Of course, being a tech geek, I had to try it out as well, so I made a comic about my cat! But see how much fun your students could have both writing and reading through a comics medium? Anyone can pick-up-and-play, with user-friendly. This app is for more than just budding comic book artists though. Any photo will do, no matter how seemingly boring or mundane. I took plenty of photos of the books they were discussing…check them out below in the slideshow with my descriptions/thoughts! Users are able to transform their own personal photos from their mobile device and bring them to life in an interactive comic book. They can edit the images, add captions and speech bubbles, and insert special icons and graphics. Comic Life is described as 'Presenting Comic Life 3, the app with everything you need to make a stunning comic from your own images.Packed with fonts, templates, panels, balloons, captions, and lettering art, Comic Life is a fun, powerful and easy-to-use app with endless possibilities' and is a Comic Maker in the news & books category. Kids select a template that maps out all the comic panels, add their pictures, and then the rest is up to their imagination. I attended several sessions led by authors and artists of comics and graphic novels who shared some of the latest and greatest graphic novels out there so many of them turn events and people in history into a comics format others include more diversity in their characters. Parents need to know that Comic Life is a mobile app that lets kids take their own pictures to create digital comic books. This organization provides a wealth of resourcesfor teachers who want to introduce the genres of comic books and graphic novels into their classroom, as well as resources on how students can create their own comics! Today’s teachers have a wealth of resources in both of these areas to share with their students!īack in May of this year, I attended the Denver Pop Culture Con, which is presented by Pop Culture Classroom, whose mission it is to “inspire a love of learning, increase literacy, celebrate diversity and build community through the tools of popular culture and the power of self-expression” (taken from the home page of their website).
While teaching my genre units back in the 90s, I did not even remotely think about using comics as a genre (I wish I could go back and yell at myself!), and graphic novels were not common yet. However, for many of today’s children, who grow up surrounded by a plethora of visual media, comics can provide the perfect gateway into reading, as can graphic novels. I was already a passionate reader of regular books, so unlike other children, comics weren’t instrumental in me learning to read, but just another genre I loved! I was a HUGE fan of comics back in the 60s and 70s…my two favorites were the Archie comics and DC Illustrated Classics (two VERY different comic book genres!).
COMIC LIFE SERIES
In addition, each template includes a series of small graphics that you can drag and drop on any page.One of my genre categories in the product is graphic novels and comic books. That happens with the system that allows you to apply filter on images too.Īnother interesting feature of Comic Life Magic, which recalls the famous 'brushes' from Adobe Photoshop, is the possibility of translating on pages with 'spray' a wide variety of reasons: some balloons, bubbles, a few clouds, flowers, hearts, and so on. Text boxes and balloons have also received a good face lift. The top of the interface of the program displays a thumbnail of all the pages contained in the project the preview of the templates is located at the top right the central area is reserved for the layout of the comic. Not only has Comic Life Magic renewed the interface of this popular application, but it has included new styles and templates too. The concept behind Comic Life Magic is the same as that of its predecessor: providing a simple and easy to manage environment to build a comic book out of a series of pictures.
COMIC LIFE MAC OS X
Comic Life Magic is the new version of this popular tool to create comics that takes advantage of the features of Mac OS X Leopard.