ComicBook!

[|ComicBook!] is a fun app for designing graphic novels. It offers a variety of looks allowing the student to have flexibility in telling their story: 2nd graders were independent with this app after one panel was modeled for them. They were the ones testing the buttons to see they could add color to the speech bubbles, add "comic" effects or change the font in the title.
 * Select from numerous panels (single panel up to six panel storyboards)
 * Captions (speech bubbles) have distinctive looks, adjust to text and are easily moved
 * Images can be uploaded from camera roll or by using the camera
 * Finished page saved as JPEG or PDF and can be shared
 * Visit their fantastically creative instructions for [|step-by-steps]

**Tips:**
 * Encourage kids to keep their iPad in on direction (portrait or landscape) when working on their project so when all the pages come together there is a unified look ideal for presenting.
 * Discuss the flow of graphic novels from left to right and higher to lower as dialogue moves
 * Present how to keep the image clear of graphics and space the speech bubbles for greatest impact

These samples were created using ComicBook! and uploaded into [|FlipSnack]: media type="custom" key="22103024" media type="custom" key="22103028"


 * Advice for uploading to FlipSnack, since it seems to me one PDF is more seamless: **
 * I will preface this by saying it is possible to upload multiple PDFs, I think it looks better with one PDF
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">If you save the pages as JPEGS then paste into one consolidated doument and save as a PDF
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">If you save multiple PDFs, then go to a free service like [|PDFMerge]and upload individual pages to merge into one consolidated document
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Don't do both on a single project (I did) and that is a nightmare. ;-)

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">FlipSnack Tutorial: **