For those who are not skilled with pencil and paper, but are better at using the keyboard and mouse, we have selected 5 websites that include tools to design and compose your own digital comics.
Canva’s tools are so easy to use that you don’t need any design or drawing experience. Start from scratch or choose one of Canva’s pre-made comic book templates, there’s something for every theme and style. When you find the perfect template, select it and start creating your comic.
All templates include a full page, a blank page, speech bubbles, and two pages of illustrations. The operation is quite simple: you drag and drop elements in your design.
One of the advantages is that you do not need to register to be able to create a comic on this website, so it is much more instantaneous than our other recommendations here.
On the other hand, it has the peculiarity that you can only edit designs in black and white, to give your vignettes a more classic touch.
Pixton is one of the few online tools to create comics that can be used in Spanish. You have several comic, storyboard or graphic novel options available to start working. Afterwards, generating each vignette is very simple thanks to the fact that it allows you to drag the different elements to the work canvas.
In addition, hundreds of users publish their work here, which is very useful when it comes to getting ideas and seeing examples.
It is one of the most complete online tools to create comics, since it incorporates color customization options for backgrounds, objects, and characters.
In addition, it sorts all the pictograms by categories, which makes it easy to find the drawings you want to use to tell the story.
Bubblr is a community where people create comic-strips or fotonovelas from Flickr photos, choosing a sequence of photos to which they can add dialogue and create a story.
You only have to enter with your Flickr user and embed speech bubbles to achieve your story. It includes an image search engine, so that the result is not so random.
If the idea is that the little ones in the house are the ones to entertain themselves creating their own comics, Make Beliefs Comix is one of the most intuitive, although it has a limit of 18 cartoons.
In the center of the screen is the blank canvas on which you have to work and, to edit it, you just have to select the vignette and choose the elements to incorporate. Once finished, you can save it to your computer or send it by email.