Cartoons and Comics

Cartoons and comics are a super fun way to mix some old school fun with some modern fun! This post is about some of the most popular comic creation websites. I've also included samples of the comics I created using these websites.

Pixton was easy to use. This was my favorite out of the 3 I tried. There were lots of choices of backgrounds, people and clip art. This would be a great option for the students to use. 

Make Believe Comix was a little more simpler in form than the others. There were not a ton of choices, but it was still fun to create. Each character had different positions you could place them in. 

ToonDoo was a fun website to use. I liked many of the features provided. It had the most features as any of the websites I tried out. My biggest complaint was the website was extremely slow when it came to finalizing the final comic. It took many attempts, and a wait of days, to finally see the finished product and be able to take a screenshot.

Overall, all three are great resources for teachers and students. There are so many great ways to use these in your classroom. With the younger grades, you can get student input as you create the comic whole group. Upper grades would have no problem creating these on their own. This also is great to use across any subject. The ones I created were for Science and Literacy. You can give the students a topic and let them go at it.