Pop! Yourself!

In case you admired my DOA FunkoPop, you can Pop Yourself:

https://funko.com/pages/pop-yourself

Captain Underpants Cartoon Maker

Also from a little scrap of paper. I knew you'd want to know this Captain Underpants Cartoon Maker is still available on the Scholastic site. 

You're able to drag characters, dialog balloons (you can't write your own dialog, but honestly do you think you could do better than Mr. Pilkey himself? nah.) 

Multiple panels so if you are clever you can create a story starring those poopy heroes we all love.

Here is what the interface looks like:

Having More Fun with the Sticky Things

Now that I'm done with the More Things on a Stick program, I am going back through and adding links on my link lists from the many Things I wished to explore more. I'm hoping for another round of Things in the future. I'll be practising till then.

This Bart Simpson Blackboard Generator is from the "1000 Online Generators" link in my Blog and 2.0-ish Tips category.

Scary Storytime

Bad dog that I am I skipped ahead briefly to Thing 36, Comic Relief. They had a new cartoon generator which they billed as made for blogs. This is it! Actually you just blog on their site, as it were, your toons. And...can save them to your real blog after all. It doesn't fit the blog after all. You need to click through to the site, then click once more to enlarge it. Cute toon though if I do say so myself.

Get Thee to the Generator Blog, and Generate

This is just the sort of thing you didn't want to see me find. I have had alot of fun with Comics and Image Generators.

Now, I have found the Generator Blog! The blog has everything you can imagine. The blog subtitle is: "This blog is not about those machines used to change mechanical energy into electrical energy. It's about software that creates software. Software to play around and have fun with."

I tried a Chinese Movie subtitle page which would let you add subtitles to a short video clip. Unfortunately, this one didn't work for me, but others did! What a Goldmine!

Make your own Receipt, endlessly useful:



Eternal Life Coupon--who doesn't need one of those?



Your personal Rocket for all of us Spacey Types:



There are tons of things to try. The Generator Blog links to other sites who have created endlessly fun and useful images and mini-programs for you to personalize.

Cartoon Helpers

Since I can't draw but wish I could, I continue to look for tools that will do the work for me. Because I also have a small humourous bent, the online comic generators are really appealing! The above is created through the Comic Strip Generator site www.comicstripgenerator.com It is my least favorite so far but perhaps there is more to it than meets the eye. Nice for a quick book recommendation, as we see.

One of my favorites so far is Toonlet http://toonlet.com which has many mix and match body parts and styles and options for adding as many panels as you like. It also saves your characters so once you have a character all set up you can feature them in a new comic rather than starting from scratch each time. The drawback is that even a two panel comic is too wide for my blog template. There isn't a way to make it fit. So you can create there, but would be limited to a single panel here:




There is an option to email the panel to yourself or your friends as well so you can share your work, just not stick it on your blogger blog.

Another fun one is Toondoo www.toondoo.com It does not allow the character customization you have with Toonlet, but it does fit on the blog with its intriguing floating frame. You are able to create strips in a variety of formats and backgrounds, you can create books with multiple pages or you can do some freeform drawing with their drawing toolset. (Use the slider arrow on this one to view entire comic. I was trying out a longer panel.)

One more that is cute but not so far able to be inserted easily into my blog is Make Belief Comics at www.makebeliefcomix.com This has 3 panel toons, with customizeable moods in set characters that you can email to yourself or friends. I had to scan this comic (crooked, alas) and then upload it as an image. Click on it to read the comic a bit better.






Happy Tooning, Librarian D.O.A.