Comments on: Creating Comics

By: Martin Hardee

Martin Hardee — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:35:49 +0000

Thanks for the mentions of http://DesignComics.org ! The images and slides are in the public domain, so feel free to use them in your design projects.

By: Ashley McKee

Ashley McKee — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:35:33 +0000

Design Comics is a great resource. I had never seen it before. Thanks for pointing it out!

I’ll have to check out Y: The Last Man…there seem to be quite a few of them. Any favorites?

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:43:12 +0000

This is pretty mundane, but we sometimes use comic book-type iconography in our collateral material, or for clients. Here’s an example

http://tinyurl.com/36xcsj (PDF)

The best comic book I’ve read in years is “Y: The Last Man”. Not about super heroes, but fascinating and funny nonetheless.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:38:22 +0000

I use techniques from comics to make storyboards, but instead of drawing them, I like to use photographs and Comic Life to create “fotonovela”-style stories. These aren’t quite as polished as drawn comics, but they’re much faster to generate and can be just as engaging.

Storyboards like this are particularly useful when you’re trying to illustrate a design that’s dependent on environment and context, e.g. mobile devices. I don’t think it’s quite worth the effort if, say, you’re designing a web page that will primarily be used in an office environment.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:01:27 +0000

Ashley, this doesn’t exactly answer your question, but it is an interesting resource for people interested in using comics for design research modeling. http://blogs.sun.com/MartinHardee/entry/new_design_comics_web_site

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:41:01 +0000

Have you seen Martin Hardee’s Design Comics?

http://designcomics.org/

Cheers!