« Answers.com natural language tool | Main | Searching for Art Images Online »
July 18, 2006
Comic Strip Generator
The Comic Strip Generator lets you choose from hundreds of different comic templates and create little strips panel by panel. Stephen Abram mentioned this site to me, and I feel like rather a tosser for not haivng played with it before. You could create a witty one-panel advertising library services and blow it up poster-size. Have a 3-panel strip that advertises your online reference services. The possibilities are endless.
July 18, 2006 | Permalink
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c511253ef00e550653f948834
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Comic Strip Generator:
Comments
Maker (me) of the comic stripper has more sites listed @ http://www.ImageGenerator.org :)
Posted by: Comedy King | January 8, 2007
I agree with Amanda, who says that the "fair use" is questionable.
Just because the site's owners say that the images are only being used for parody doesn't make it so. If I take Scott Adams's drawing of Dilbert and use it as Dilbert, that's not a parody of Dilbert. I think that's a misuse of Scott Adams's art.
The argument is even stronger if I pay the company to send me a refrigerator magnet with Dilbert saying the words I want him to say.
If someone were to put up a site with their own drawings and offer it, that would be different. And of course one difference is that a lot fewer people would want it. We like to see the copyrighted images precisely because their creators have created characters that resonate. If no one knew that the awkwardly drawn guy with the tie that flips up represents office life, cubicles, nerds, programmers, etc., then it wouldn't make such an effective poster or whatever. And that just shows that we'd be using Dilbert as Dilbert. And Dilbert is copyrighted.
Same goes for the other comics I've seen on the site.
It might be different for Albert Einstein, Dick Cheney, etc. -- but the photographers of those public figures might have copyright in the photographs.
Posted by: Mary Whisner | August 1, 2006
Cool idea!
Sketchy on the "fair use"-ability of Simpsons and Disney characters, though...
Posted by: Amanda Werhane | July18, 2006
