Social Media… Comic Strips?

bitstrips_-character-builder.jpgThis week a good majority of my Twitter friends had “cartoon’d” themselves. This had happened before when the Simpson Movie was coming out and everyone turned themselves into a yellow characterization of themselves, but this week it went a little beyond just a new avatar picture.

They were all using a website called BitStrips. BitStrips lets you create a comic strip style version of yourself and once you and friends have registered you can create comics based on your characters. For example here’s one by my Twitter Friend Pip using our mutual Twitter friend Tee Morris:

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You can then share, comment and rate the comic strips you and your friends have made. It’s an addicting website with fun social interactivity built in. No longer do I have to whine about having no drawing skills. And I love how easy to use it is. VERY easy to use. Niche? Maybe, but Twitter friends seem to have fallen in love.

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March 14, 2008 | Filed Under social media

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  1. Social Media Blog Carnival #002 | Social Media World on March 18th, 2008 9:00 am

    [...] Scott Allen presents Social Comics – A Review of Bitstrips (In Pictures) posted at The Virtual Handshake Blog, saying, “Bitstrips is a comic creation tool with a strong social element. While it doesn’t create a genre, it certainly makes it more accessible to the millions of us with a sense of humor but no artistic talent.” I also wrote a post about Bitstrips that exploded last week over my Twitter feed. [...]

  2. Chris on March 30th, 2008 8:41 am

    Never seen that site before. Now I’ve got another site to waste a couple of hours on…

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