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Create Your Own Comics with Toonlet

Ever wanted to draw your own comic, but just don’t quite have the knack for drawing?  No need for those skills, put your imagination to work on toonlet.  toonlet allows you to select from a multitude of characters’ torsos, arms, heads, noses, etc.  You assemble characters and then put them in strips.  The options might be a bit more limited then your imagination, but you can still have a lot of fun and waste a ton of time.  I spent about 20-30 minutes constructing this gem:

Pretty awsome Flash application.  There is, of course, a community and crowdsourcing type aspect to toonlet.  You can follow other creators and I’m guessing you’ll eventually be able to communicate with them on toonlet, or at least there will be other community integration, like links to users Facebook, MySpace, Twitter profiles.  There is a multitude of enhancements the toonlet folks could make to further facilitate sharing and spreading strips.

The crowdsourcing aspect is the “top strips”, which I’m guessing is driven by the number of shares and embeds that are done with a given strip.  It might be cool if some of this data was transparent to the community.  I’m not sure how toonlet expects to make ends meet.  I assume through merchandise and maybe eventually advertising.  But check it out and become the next Bill Watterson or Gary Larson.

Tags: comics Flash crowdsourcing