Comiqs

If you have ever seen a comic strip and wished you could create your own, there is now a way. Excuse the spelling; it's called Comiqs. It is an online service where you upload images, or choose from their free image libraries, make text bubbles for the speech of characters, and put them together in slides. The result? Free online comics that you created by yourself. Sponsored by advertising, the site is becoming rather popular on the Internet. Some websites also use it to make a "Comic Strip of the Day" and post a link to their comic on their site. What will this mean for the future of Internet publishing? For many, it will be the freedom to express their ideas with the simple comic strip. But what else will it mean? Comiqs-devoted publishing sites may spring up and allow users to post their finished comics there. Also, graphic e-books may be published by the scores---and made with Comiqs technology. On sites like Digg and Reddit, users might post links to their creations--perhaps so many links that those sites will have seperate categories for online comics. Does anyone know what this will bring? No. However, what we know it will do is increase artistic equality. For the first time, anyone can make their own cartoon. It is now that people will hear other's artistic voices, in the form of comics.