![]() "But I love the idea of the avatar - another way of seeing yourself (i.e., brown people) reflected in art and lit. "I find the Facebook interface a bit confusing," she explained. She says she doesn't actually get around to making too many comics of her own. Thus, creating a cartoon avatar might be as much engagement with the Bitstrips site as an amateur like me might attempt.Īt Bitstrips' suggestion, I was placed in a comic with my friend Ayesha Mattu. But narratively, it was essentially a blank slate.Īnyone who has ever stared down the screen, struggling to articulate a framing concept, can understand how this absence of a storyline could be a paralyzing prospect. Users could render a comic, a character or a scene using Bitstrips' extensive art library and basic drag-and-drop tools. ![]() The first version of Bitstrips, launched at the South by Southwest festival in 2008, was a digital comics toolkit site. It lets Facebook users create cartoon avatars of themselves and their Facebook friends, and place those characters into customized comic strips.īut the cold reality is, it's not easy to create a respectably funny (and thus, shareable) comic. In December, he converted that idea into an app (that has since gone viral). As a kid, the comics he most enjoyed creating "were the ones I would make for my friends, starring those friends," he says. Jacob Blackstock first conceived of the burgeoning social comics site Bitstrips as a way to let the rest of the Internet participate in his childhood passion. ![]() ![]() Bitstrips is a popular website and Facebook app that has teens and others making their own cartoons. ![]()
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