# Make your own comic strips? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 28, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422 "2004-01-28T15:28:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@smam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422/1 "2004-01-28T15:28:02Z")
I found a site in mid-October 2003 that allows you to make your own comic strips. Since then I have written about a 100 3-panel strips. I figured that a lot of you guys here will have good ideas ( and like me have no artistic ability) and might want an outlet. If you click on [this](http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/smamurai) it will take you to my comics. From there you can push a button to start making your own. They have about a hundred different characters and 50 different backgrounds which is kind of limiting. But it’s what’s in the speech bubbles that counts. If you can be arsed reading through mine ( and I doubt anyone will make it 1/2 way ) remember that comic titles beginning with either ‘FTC’ or ‘CC’ are competition comics which may not be funny as standalone comics unless you already knew the rules for that particular compo. ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422/2 "2004-01-31T06:59:40Z")
> [@smam](#): > > I found a site in mid-October 2003 that allows you to make your own comic strips. > Since then I have written about a 100 3-panel strips. I figured that a lot of you guys here will have good ideas ( and like me have no artistic ability) and might want an outlet. If you click on [this](http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/smamurai) it will take you to my comics. From there you can push a button to start making your own. They have about a hundred different characters and 50 different backgrounds which is kind of limiting. But it’s what’s in the speech bubbles that counts. > If you can be arsed reading through mine ( and I doubt anyone will make it 1/2 way ) remember that comic titles beginning with either ‘FTC’ or ‘CC’ are competition comics which may not be funny as standalone comics unless you already knew the rules for that particular compo. Wow! Looks like you had lots of fun making those comic strips. Thanks for sharing that link. I’d like to try my hand at making some, too. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422/3 "2004-01-31T07:37:55Z")
> [@smam](#): > > They have about a hundred different characters and 50 different backgrounds which is kind of limiting. But it’s what’s in the speech bubbles that counts. I’ve never seen one where you just had to fill in the fields online. That’s pretty cool. 😃 But one hundred characters and 50 backgrounds is _limiting?_ :eek: Part of the fun in this kind of thing is working within the narrow parameters of the strip. 😉 I don’t have anything that fancy set up, but we’ve done this a couple times at my site, and it’s usually pretty funny (although extremely inside-jokey). I only gave the arteests two backgrounds (one with tree, one without), and two characters (penguins identical except for color). That’s it! They have to put it together in Photoshop or whatever. It produces some interesting results. We got the idea from [The Bench](http://www.thebench.co.nz/), a former subsection of the web’s best online comic, [Penny Arcade](http://www.penny-arcade.com), now it’s own site. They only provide the bench, Gabe, and the squirrel. And the frame. And that’s it. 😉 There are a lot of pretty funny strips on there, although they too are fairly inside-jokey (is there a 50-cent word for that?) a lot of the time. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422/4 "2004-01-31T09:21:47Z")
A good 50-cent word that means substantially the same as “inside-jokey” is _esoteric_. That’ll be fifty cents, please. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Short\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Short\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422/5 "2004-01-31T12:14:02Z")
Hey, that’s pretty cool. I still prefer to draw them myself, though. I [like](http://urcult.keenspace.com/d/20030808.html) the [creative](http://urcult.keenspace.com/d/20030702.html) [freedom](http://urcult.keenspace.com/d/20030423.html) that comes with making web comics. Yes, I also like shameless plugs. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422/6 "2004-01-31T13:30:14Z")
That’s pretty neat. I made a couple of [strips](http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/Caribou/208399) myself, while waiting for the mailman. They’re not funny though. ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422/7 "2004-01-31T18:51:47Z")
Hey, very cool, I’ve been looking for something like this. Here’s my little [collection](http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/Evanshow/208438). ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422/8 "2004-01-31T19:34:34Z")
> [@Slacker](#): > > We got the idea from [The Bench](http://www.thebench.co.nz/), a former subsection of the web’s best online comic, [Penny Arcade](http://www.penny-arcade.com), now it’s own site. They only provide the bench, Gabe, and the squirrel. And the frame. And that’s it. 😉 There are a lot of pretty funny strips on there, although they too are fairly inside-jokey (is there a 50-cent word for that?) a lot of the time. The Bench! Ai! I thought you were dead, Gabe, I thought you were DEAD! Er. Anyway, I’ve got about a dozen strips there. They’re…not all funny. And several of them are injokey. Still. They are fun. Stripcreator’s amusing, too. [My first Stripcreator strip](http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/Nekogami/208452) [My least silly and injokey Bench strip](http://www.thebench.co.nz/comics.php?strip=1242) ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422/9 "2004-01-31T20:58:18Z")
I made a few. [Here](http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/Jeanster/208464) is the latest. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422/10 "2004-02-01T07:36:56Z")
[My first attempt](http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/ethorp/208580). ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422/11 "2004-02-03T13:34:09Z")
[Geek Boy Seeks Love](http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/Jeanster/208641) Summery: Geek Boy’s quest to find a girlfriend takes an unexpected twist when he finds himself attracted to an astronaut. ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422/12 "2004-02-06T03:26:39Z")
[LOTR told in one 3-panel comic strip](http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/Jeanster/209526). I was limited by the selection of available images. Couldn’t find figures that look like Legolas or Boromir or any of the Hobbits. ---
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422/13 "2004-02-06T03:45:50Z")
Well, i have one lame effort I did the day this OP was posted…kinda dated now 🙂 [Clickity click](http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/rexnervous/) Very cool site, tho’, let’s see if I have any other brief shining inspirational moments… ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-own-comic-strips/226422/14 "2004-02-06T14:34:45Z")
Good stuff folks, but I think I’m going to vote for Wearia’s Dinosaurs and Aliens strip. That is if there was voting.