Welcome to Comic Strip Factory

Comic Strip Factory is a personal creativity application for Mac OS X for creating comic strips. It Is designed to be useable by anyone with a funny Idea. You don't need to be a great artist, because the program comes with a cast of characters that are ready for you to use. You can use preassembled poses to make it easy, or you can swap in other heads, hands, and other body parts for greater flexibility. For a higher level of customization, you can fully assemble poses yourself out of parts, which can be easily rotated, flipped, or scaled to suit your needs. And if you are an artist, or willing to try your hand at It, the full set of drawing tools used to create our bundled characters and scenery are built into the program and available to you.

You don't have to be a genius at laying out panels on a page, either. Comic Strip Factory creates an initial grid layout for you and makes it easy to modify and customize. It has panel-layout features that are designed to suit your needs whether you are making a single panel cartoon, a simple four-panel strip, something more involved like a Sunday comic, or even a comic book or graphic novel.

Another important part of creating comics is making dialogue balloons. They might be a lot of work when made by hand, but they're easy when made with Comic Strip Factory. Just click a button to make a balloon, then type your text. Formatting the text is done with familiar controls that show up when needed. The balloon redraws itself to fit the text automatically. There are five different basic shapes you can use to allow you to customize the appearance. They can be modified with three different balloon styles for when your character is talking, shouting, or thinking. Comic Strip Factory comes with some great comic fonts built-in. And there are a lot more available to you, including many good fonts that are free.