BitStrips: comics-creation for everone

BitStrips is a fast, easy, sharing-friendly comic creation site -- you make "characters" using a Wii-style menu, pose them and fill in dialog, layout your strips and monkey with the backgrounds, borrowing material from any of the thousands of strips that have been made to date. Once your strip is done, anyone can modify it -- it becomes part of the commons. In the first two weeks of the site's existence, more than 16,000 strips were created by the users of the service. Link (Thanks, Jesse!)

[#1 posted by Nathaniel , March 25, 2008 10:27 AM]

Just an FYI, any strip you create on BitStrips puts you into a "joint ownership" agreement with the site: http://comixtalk.com/bite_strips

[#2 posted by Jesse Brown , March 25, 2008 10:47 AM]

Hey Nathaniel, Jesse from Bitstrips here.

Just want to be clear about the joint ownership thing- it's in there so that no-one can claim ownership of the noses, ears, bananas and other cartoon bits that we make available to everybody.

We may find a better way of phrasing this in our TOU, but until then please rest assured that our users are welcome and encouraged to throw their Bitstrips on their blogs without us sharing in any ad revenue or making any claims on their creations.

[#3 posted by Roger Knights , March 25, 2008 10:53 AM]

Funny Times magazine also has an online page where amateurs can create cartoons by making selections from the body parts and expressions of various stock characters. The "Help" section explains the how-to.

http://www.funnytimes.com/playground/

(Funny Times is a monthly 50/50 mix of humorous essays (some political) and cartoons (ditto). It qualifies as a wonderful thing, IMO, even if you don't like its politics (progressive).)

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[#5 posted by Santa's Knee , March 25, 2008 2:10 PM]

@#4: "Simpson's did it."

Specifically, Homer uses a service to (incorrectly) make a personalized video for Lisa:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dad_Who_Knew_Too_Little

[#6 posted by cinemajay , March 25, 2008 3:11 PM]

everone = everyone

/I'm guessing?

[#7 posted by mikesum32 , March 25, 2008 6:55 PM]

I'm so sorry. I'm not a troll, and I'm mostly nice. I'm full of irreverence though. Everyone deserves the occasional poke to the eye.

http://www.bitstrips.com/user/8271/

I include myself in there as well. Have at it !

[#8 posted by a different ian , March 25, 2008 8:15 PM]

Perhaps you might also enjoy toonlet.com as well...We're a cartoon site with a character tool to develop highly customizable characters with a hand-drawn look. You can add your own art elements to the site for use with the tool as well. It's easy and quite fun!

Come try us out or take our tour...

Thanks!

Ian (from toonlet)

[#9 posted by arbitraryaardvark , March 25, 2008 10:17 PM]

http://www.stripcreator.com is a bit like that, maybe more primitive. I've been doing a strip there for a few years. http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/arbi .
It's not funny and it's not art, but it's art therapy. Something I started doing after reading the artists' way. It's just really easy to use.

[#10 posted by rajendran , March 27, 2008 4:06 AM]

ToonDoo is just another Cartoon-Strip making platform that is striving hard to be not just another Cartoon-Strip making platform.

Going by the kinda reception we are getting, I think we are doing the right things just right.

Take a look yourself, visit http://www.toondoo.com and play around with the six different cartoon-strip making tools we have lined up for you!

Thanks.

Rajendran.
ToonDude from www.jambav.com