5 Mind-Blowing iPhone Apps to Create Your Very Own Comic Book

That nail-biting moment when the climax scene of your favorite comic book is playing up in front of your eyes, where you find the villain eating dust, being clobbered mercilessly by the hero.

If at any point during the unfolding drama, you felt – "I could have done a better job than this", this is your first clue that you can create your very own comic book. Here is a rundown on

5 mind-blowing iPhone apps for your own comic creation

ComicBook!

If you’re looking for a versatile and efficient app to aide your passion of creating comic strips, Comic Book! is the app you are looking for. An app that can be used on any of your iOS devices, ComicBook! enables users to mix their photos and turn them into comics, by choosing templates, applying effects, adding captions, as well as stickers.

It is a full featured comic book creation app that can turn you and your friends into comic heroes and villains with a few clicks. Be it image filters, captions, comic fonts, amazing graphics, brilliant layouts, border styles, balloon styles, and much more, the app is packed with stunning features that can give your comic the realistic touch you are after.

Once you’re done creating your comic, you can export them as PDFs or save as image on your camera roll. Overall, this is a great app, which is versatile, has awesome effects, and is fun to operate!

Strip Designer

If you have a thing for creativity and have plenty of free time to use up, Strip Designer is a quirky app you could spend your time meddling with. Essentially, just like the above app, Strip Designer is an app that allows its users to click pictures with their iOS device, or import them from another source, and apply them on a template in order to create a unique comic strip or a comic book.

Users have access to clip art, icons, over 100 different strip templates, full-page splash panels, filters, and much more. You can also add speech, sound effects, and use special effect symbols like “Boom”, “Bang”, or action balloons like “Bomf” and “Pow” to spice up your story and give it a real comic book feel.

Whether you’re a graphic designer or comic enthusiast, you can spend hours on this app tweaking your creation until it turns out just the way you want it to be! With an intuitive interface, ample of customizable options, and export options, this app pretty much hits the mark.

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Comic Life

Yet another noteworthy app handy for creating your own comic strip, Comic Life is undoubtedly one of the funniest, easiest, and quickest tools to create a comic strip on your cellular device. Packed with nifty features such as speech balloons, templates, shapes, shadows, effects, photo filters, colors, fonts, captions, panels, and what not, Comic Life has everything that you need in order to create dynamic, vibrant, and fun comic strips.

Moreover, the app also makes its incredibly easy for you to share your comics by laying forth a number of options such as print, and email, or you can even upload your creations on social networks to share with friends and family.

Big Nate: Comix By U!

If you are looking for decent app to inspire the inner cartoonist in you, Big Nate: Comix By U! is an app that surely deserves your consideration. Big Nate aka Nate Wright is a brainy 6th grader who is apparently a self-described genius, a hilarious “king of detention”, and a cartoonist extraordinaire.

Using favorite characters, cool backgrounds, fun props, and sound effects from Nate’s world, users can design their very own Nate-inspired comic strips. With three different modes of play available, users have plenty of options in creating a variety of different comics and displaying their incredible storytelling skills.

Once your precious creations have been made, you can share them with friends and family via email or you can save them in the personal in-app gallery.

Comics

Are you a comic book fan? Fancy creating your own comic strips? Looking for a source of inspiration to get you started? In this regard, what could be a better source of inspiration that having access to the best of comic books at the tap of a finger? Comics by ComiXology is the ultimate go-to apps for reading comics on your portable iOS devices!

The app boasts of over 30,000 titles from dozens of popular publishers. From the likes of Marvel comics like The Avengers, Iron Man, Daredevil, Captain America, The Hulk, Wolverine, and many more, to some DC masterpieces such as Batman, Green Lantern, Superman, Smallville, The Darn Knight, Justice League, and so on, this revolutionary app is pretty much a comic book powerhouse. Overall, this app is an ideal source for all the inspiration you need to start your very own comic series!

Adam Ponting

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Adam Ponting is an employee at Spice Digital Imaging, a company that offers a wide array of large format printing services. He is an enthusiastic, happy go lucky person and a huge movie buff. Visit spicedigital.net for more information.