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Within organizations, we see this in:

- **Executives' analysis**. An analyst created a poster explaining their work using comic characters. It was simple and engaging -- the entire organization understood this deep learning technique.
- **Managers' reports**. An admin manager sent his status report as a pair of comic characters conversing. Their CEO read this report fully for the first time.
- **Consultants' workshops**. A consultant runs a culture workshop using [comics in the presentation](https://www.businessillustrator.com/culture-change-with-comics-workshop/) because "... it's a lot less threatening than an official PowerPoint presentation."
- **Product teams launching features**. Google Chrome was launched using a [comic book](http://scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/).
- **Marketer emails**
- **Event manager invites**
- **Presenting insights**
- **Executives' analysis**. An analyst created a poster explaining their work using comic characters. It was simple and engaging -- the entire organization understood this deep learning technique.
- **Managers' reports**. An admin manager sent his status report as a pair of comic characters conversing. Their CEO read this report fully for the first time.
- **Consultants' workshops**. A consultant runs a culture workshop using [comics in the presentation](https://www.businessillustrator.com/culture-change-with-comics-workshop/) because "... it's a lot less threatening than an official PowerPoint presentation."
- **Marketing stories**. This could be:
- **Product teams launching features**. Google Chrome was launched using a [comic book](http://scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/).
- **Marketer emails**
- **Event manager invites**

## Comicgen makes storytelling easy

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## Gallery
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Here are examples or guides of where comics have been used effectively in storytelling.

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If you know of more people, please [add a comment](https://github.com/gramener/comicgen/issues/25). We'll include them.


## Resources

Here are other tools and resources to create comic stories:

- [Pixton](https://www.pixton.com/) has an [online app](https://app.pixton.com/#/)
and content packs for educators and students to create comics. There's also a
[PowerPoint Add-In](https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104380907) and a
[Pixton Comic Maker](https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/SA000000020?tab=Overview)
- [Canva Comic Strips](https://www.canva.com/en_in/create/comic-strips/)
- [Write comics](http://writecomics.com/)
- [ToonyTool](https://www.toonytool.com/)
- [SummitSoft's ComicCreator](https://summitsoft.com/products/comic-creator/)
- [Make Beliefs Comix](https://www.makebeliefscomix.com/)
- [StoryboardThat](https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-creator)

If you know of any others, please [add a comment](https://github.com/gramener/comicgen/issues/26). We'll include them.

We haven't yet found tools that expose an API. This should enable developers to integrate with existing tools and workflows, as well as build new ones. Hopefully comicgen will enable that.


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