I love Comic Life. That’s why I’m delighted to have a pre-release hands-on with the new “pro” version, Comic Life Magiq! Brian Caldwell, Senior Director of Plasq.com, notes that Comic Life Magiq took 15 months of development and is released as a new Leopard only application. The reason? Comic Life Magiq is built from the ground up to leverage the power of Mac OS X 10.5 core technologies, like Core Image and Core Animation resulting in photo-comics with unique visual effects and elegant layout. See more screenshots after the jump… Here you see the designer templates, sorta like themes in Apple iWork applications. He also notes that “[t]he comic page layout engine can handle complex and creatively-curved comic panels, speech balloons and captions. Artistic ‘brushes’ provide hand-drawn feel to lines, and powerful compositing lets the user flexibly combine their images. Also included are a collection of artist-commissioned templates, props, balloon shapes and spraycans”. The new Comic Life Magiq has all kinds of interesting interactive details, like the pinwheel page layering selection on the top-left. As you can see, this is a professional level app, with all kinds of detailing you can apply to your comic creation. Great for creating educational tutorials too! Don’t worry. You should be able download a trial copy by the time you read this. Retails $39.95 for a limited time, and it’s a $19.95 upgrade price for previous Comic Life owners like myself. Head over to watch their demo video! Similar Posts:Running with “Comic Life” Silly Rabbit, Hacks for Kids! MacBooks now out in Black or White! Laziness can be a great virtue! State of Intertextual Videos: On YouTube and Viddler video annotations