Comic-O-Matic, by Margo Burns, with Nina Paley's Face-O-Matic

Step 1: Random characters are selected to start. Choose your own if you want different ones - the new ones will show up after you click "Make this Comic Strip".
Step 2: Optional: You can set a scene per panel, "Washington, D.C.", "Later that day..." etc. HOWEVER, you will lose a line of space for dialog if you do so.
Step 3: Write your own dialog. You can use the faces below to inspire you! Want it to be a thought? Change the radio button below from "Talk" to "Thought"! Because cartoon characters don't always speak in words, if you put any of the following words in square brackets - like this: [heart] - you will see some interesting results: cloud, storm, sweat, steam, heart, bubbles, lightbulb, and curse.
Talk Thought	Talk Thought	Talk Thought	Talk Thought	Talk Thought	Talk Thought
Step 4: Leave color/eyes/mouth checked if you want to keep them. Uncheck any you don't like, and a new random one will be generated when you click "Make this Comic Strip" (Want more control over the faces? Use the main interface)
Step 5: Don't forget to title it and take credit!
Title			Written by
Step 6: Generate your comic strip!
or Start Fresh!

DEVELOPMENT NOTES: Blog at http://comicomaticdeveloper.wordpress.com

• Want to select the eyes and mouths directly? Preview the new interface that I am developing: http://www.comicomatic.com/preview.php - be patient with some of the look of the interface, but it seems to work in most browsers (well, not IE9, apparently... sigh)
• Accented and umlauted international characters have been added to this font, based on Nina's handwriting for Comic-O-Matic!
• Using a hard return in a dialog currently does odd things (try it, if you really want!). Sorry if you like it, though: I'll be fixing it!
• I haven't got a routine written yet to alert you when you've entered too long a sentence: it just chops it off. Words that are too long for the dialog box are replaced with "XXXXX". Try manually hyphenating really long words by inserting a hyphen and a space.
• SEND FEEDBACK TO margoburns@gmail.com
• ♡2011 by Margo Burns and Nina Paley. Copying is an act of love. Please copy! copyheart.org
• CC BY SA