Resources

Resources

Comics tools

Here are other tools and resources to create comic stories:

• Pixton has an online app and content packs for educators and students to create comics. There's also a PowerPoint Add-In and a Pixton Comic Maker
• Joe Schmoe is an image API an avatar collection
• Powtoon
• Canva Comic Strips
• Chart.xkcd - a library for XKCD-like sketchy, handhand-drawn charts
• Write comics
• ToonyTool
• SummitSoft's ComicCreator
• Make Beliefs Comix
• StoryboardThat

If you know of any others, please add a comment. We'll include them.

We haven't yet found tools that expose an API. This should enable developers to integrate with existing tools and workflows, as well as build new ones. Hopefully comicgen will enable that.

Comics resources

• Teaching comics has resources on teaching how to create comics
• DataComics.net has good examples of data comics

People

People working on storytelling / data visualization through comics include:

• Chris Lysy
• Martin Telefont (see Data Visualization Comics)
• Matt Hong
• Natalia Kiseleva
• Neil Cohn
• Pablo Stanley - see OpenPeeps, Humaans, OpenDoodles
• Susie Lu
• Taryn Read

If you know of more people, please add a comment. We'll include them.