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ToonDoo comic strip maker: coming to a classroom near you?


There are plenty of apps you can use to build your own comic strip, with little artistic talent required. Various members of the Download Squad team love Bitstrips and Comic Life Magiq, but we grownups aren't really the target audience for ToonDoo, a comic strip maker from Zoho. ToonDoo is for educational use, allowing kids to make comic strips in the classroom (even if they can't draw), and letting teachers use them as instructional tools.

If kids today are anything like I was at their age, letting them loose with a comic strip maker is a recipe for fun and mischief. ToonDoo is helping teachers out a bit by introducing ToonDooSpaces, which gives each classroom its own sandbox - with comments and other social features - that the teacher can moderate. The pitch is that Spaces makes it easier to keep track of student progress, while also helping to make the learning environment a little less Wild West.

ToonDoo could be a big distraction for kids, the same way Bitstrips is for Download Squad, so it's good to give the teacher some bonus mod powers to keep the learning focused.

Filed under: Design, Fun, Internet, Kids, Windows, Macintosh, Social Software

Toonlet - Create a comic strip starring you


Toonlet is a free web based comic strip creator that allows you to create a comic strip starring a cartoon person or persons that you design yourself and then send your finished strip to friends.

In order to create your own strip you have to first create characters. The character builder on the site has a massive amount of body parts, hair, and clothing to choose from and unlike other similar character builders all of the parts can be adjusted in size as well as moved around. You're probably not going to make a character that looks exactly like you, but you can probably get pretty close.

Once you create an original version of your character you have the option to create additional version of the same character experiencing different emotions. For instance after we created "normal" Emily we went ahead and created a "surprised" Emily as well by changing the eyes and mouth on the current creation.

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Make quick comics with StripGenerator

Neither history's first nor last comic strip generator, StripGenerator is still a fun way to send a message, kill some time, or jump-start your comic-writing career. With a slick Flash interface, a library of dozens of stylish characters and objects and an easy way to save and share the comics you build, all StripGenerator lacks is some color.

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