Friday, April 24, 2009

whalecrash: Making webcomics with Twitter

EDIT: I've since moved the comics archives to http://whalecrash.shadowbinders.com

So I've started a new experiment this week. I wanted to see if I could make a webcomic with Twitter.

No, not just tweet about a comic -- make it with Twitter. 

"Constrained comics" lend themselves to something like this, so I whipped up an off-the-wall image and decided to pull tweets into the word balloon.



With Twitter, I can update it on the fly whenever I want, from wherever I am. There's no set update schedule, but at least once a day would be nice. To the best of my knowledge, no one else has done this yet. I'm guessing either because they haven't thought to... or it's just an awful idea. We'll see how this goes!

Want to help me out? DM or reply @whalecrash with something clever and/or funny in 140 characters or less. If I like your script, I'll tweet it. And don't forget to follow me @kneon !