Creating Comics for Mobile Phones
For more information on creating strips, check out the Be A Creator page or download the Creator Guide Help File (PDF format)
When you use our Comic Creator and want to use your own art, you need to upload individual panels as .jpgs at the maximum size of 480 x 480 pixels. They can be colour or black and white. We re-size your strip to deliver to mobile phones of almost every kind available.
Use only lower case file names and do not include _underscores_ or additional stops.inthe.jpg name - these may not upload. Also note that if you are uploading a number of strips at once, make sure all file names are different, otherwise the system will overwrite files with the same file name.jpg
Lettering
Work IN PROPORTION to 480 x 480 pixels for art size. Lettering should be no less than 18 point to ensure legibility on mobile screens. Most of the uploaded strips on this site were created at 480 x 480 size at 72 dpi (dots per inch), and use 18pt lettering.
A good test to see if a strip will be legible on a mobile screen is to reduce the frame size to 240 x 240 pixels and se if you can still read it on your computer screen.
Although creating a strip for a mobile screen size limits the word count in balloons, you can always repeat a frame, but change the lettering.
Use a font that is legible at a small size: there are plenty of comic fonts available from sites such as www.comicbookfonts.com. Please check with such sites for licensing terms regarding the use of fonts for commercial publication.
Frames
The number of frames you can have in an MMS-delivered strip varies slightly depending on whether you create colour or black and white strips. ROK Comic only allows 12 frames per strip to enable MMS delivery.
Creating Comics: Some Extra Links
I'm happy to add links to creating comics here, including funny ones!
- Comixpedia recently published this funny guide on bad and overused panel compostion titled "16 Panels That I Don't Think Work All That Well", by Jon Morris, creator of Jeremy, Open Book and other comics.
Rok Comics Contracts and Guides
All these guides are PDF format. You need Adobe's free Acrobat Reader to read them, available from www.adobe.com
This is our guide on how to use the ROK Comic Creator Toools
ROK Comics Terms and Condtions
This is our general Terms and Conditions document
This outlines the terms and conditions for the use of Freefall Comics
ROK Comics Professional Contract
This outlines the terms and conditions for the use of ROK Comics to create professional comics which could earn you money per download to mobile.
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