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Comagick, or Comagick if you’re feeling fancy, is a free and open source ImageMagick-based language for writing sprite comics. You can check out the repo from Bitbucket.

The main documentation at the moment is in the readme on Bitbucket at the link above. If you want to see what a Comagick (.cmg) file looks like, I’ve included below the source file for the comic that started this post.

Part of my goal with this is to lower the effort barrier to writing comics. Anyone with a text editor can write prose fiction, but comics have a much higher barrier to entry.

I believe that to get quality, one should seek quantity. Comagick is an attempt to empower quantity in webcomics.

Happy hacking.