Creating Comics

Now that you’re familiar with many different types of comics, you’ll experience the act of creating your own!  Don’t worry.  You do not need to create an entire comic book, that is, unless you want to.  In which case, go for it!  If you are artistic or are feeling artistic after reading so many comics, you may draw your own comic by hand on paper or you may digitally draw your comic using one of the computer programs.  If you’re not going to draw a comic, you can create also create a comic using photographs with the Comic Life program.  You can stage photographs for a new story, you can use old photographs you already have to tell a story, you can doctor photos using photoshop or other editing software to tailor them to your comic, etc., the possibilities are endless.  Your comic can be short or long, fiction or non-fiction, have tons of dialogue or none at all, color or black and white, use drawings or photos, you can have your friends act out scenes in photos or you can use objects like Legos or action figures or even game pieces (Well, maybe not game pieces…  Terror Island already does that.) etc. etc. etc.  Your creative work is your work; you decide what kind of comic you want to make.

If you’re interested in making a comic with Comic Life using photographs and you didn’t come across any photo comics in your research, here a few examples:

Here is a photo comic from Michael’s Exciting Life, a semi-popular webcomic written by Michael Watson, who resides in England:

http://www.michaelsexcitinglife.co.uk/index.php?date=2007-11-30

Here is another photo webcomic called Terror Island, which features game pieces that argue about buying groceries:

Once you've finished your comic, create a page on the wiki for your comic and link it on the Class Comics page using the following format - "First Name Last Initial's Comic - Comic Title," such as "Josh B.'s Comic - "Walking the Dog."