Blind Prophecy

So in addition to Bitstrips, another site Toonlet has trucked on out of the internet tubes. Both sites promise an easy way to make and share your very own webcomic with minimal artistic skill of your own.

As you can see above, they have very different “feels” or styles to them, and I can’t decide which I prefer.

Bitstrips is easier to manipulate moods, body positions, backgrounds, and allows color variations of your characters. You can also add multiple props, characters and items to each panel and control the size and shapes of your panels. On the other hand, options are limited (especially around clothing) and facial expressions.

Toonlet gives you more fine control over things like moods, arm movements, and detail work. It also offers a vastly superior catalog of choices for hair, face, body, clothing, expressions, props and “zazz” effects. The drawbacks, though, involve every panel having to use (essentially) a single character in the upper torso and head placement. Also, you get no control over colors for anything except the background. Also, building moods requires a much greater investment of time up front and if you’re mixing and matching elements from different artist packs, it can get hard to keep track of where you saw things.

In awkwardly, sorta-related news, tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day, and I’ve made plans to spend the day with Jennifer and Jacob browsing multiple comic book stores throughout the city. We’re going to end the day with Iron Man. Of course, this means I have to get my LSAT class homework done tonight.

Filed under: blogging meta, webcomic by Jere Keys