Software or website to make your own comics without drawing?

April 6, 2022 11:16 AM

Can anyone recommend any software or online tools for a child (with adult help) to create their own comic by dragging and dropping?

This is the sort of thing I did as a kid with my first Windows 3.1 PC. We had a floppy disk with a program on that would let us create little pictures and add speech bubbles. We might add a couple of people, an object, a couple of speech bubbles, and type some weird dialogue and then print it. We wouldn’t need to actually draw anything from scratch - just position pre-made elements.

posted by d288478 to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Comic Life used to come preinstalled on Macs.
posted by now i'm piste at 11:19 AM on April 6, 2022

Best answer: Pixton.com charges $10 a month or $100 a year, and looks to be pretty full-featured, even has 7-day free trial to make sure you really like it. But if you want admin powers over your kids or have multiple kids it's 25 a month.
posted by kschang at 11:39 AM on April 6, 2022 [1 favorite]

Came in to mention Pixton. Little eirias got to play with it during her virtual school year and still really loves it. The avatars are customizable enough, and permit sufficient racial diversity, that I was able to identify most of her classmates by their avatar.
posted by eirias at 12:04 PM on April 6, 2022

Gacha Life editor by Lunime is an app that has lots of comic and movie functionality to make Gacha Life movies. I'm not sure if it's printable if that's a requirement.
posted by The_Vegetables at 12:17 PM on April 6, 2022