“Take a bow, Australia. Two of our young citizens, Cris Pearson and Keith Lang, share the honour of winning a coveted Apple Design award for ‘Best Product New to Mac OS X,’” Garry Barker reports for The Sydney Morning Herald. Comic Life… is an international enterprise, combining talents in France, Switzerland, the US and Melbourne, and exists solely on the internet.”

“Only two of the five principals have ever met, although they email each other constantly from their PowerBooks and occasionally make Skype calls when they need to talk,” Barker reports. “Comic Life, conceived by Robert Grant, the US partner, in collaboration with the other partners over the internet, allows you to make a comic book from your digital photographs, complete with speech balloons, captions and effects.”

“Comic Life, downloadable from plasq.com, costs $US24.95 ($A32) and is more fun than a kid with a ferret in church,” Barker writes.

Full article here.

More info and download link (free 30-day trial) for Comic Life here.