Create Your Cartoon Character Using Free Comic Books from the Public Domain

Cartoons are always popular and if you go to Youtube, you'll see that using a cartoon like character in animatics or animation draws a lot of views.

Why not either use a character that is lost in the public domain comics of long ago? Look at these two characters.

Can you draw them as is or can you use them to create your own unique comic? The answer is yes you can.

Check the stories inside comic books from the public domain. Write a story or create an animation based on the story. I did this with a horror story using a clock that ticked 13.

The place I go to research old comics is ComicBookPlus. These comics are in the public domain. They're free for you to use to turn loose your imagination.

I like this site so much I give them a volunteer donation after I publish a work.

Tales of Horror

Let's say you want to write and publish a horror story but you just can't come up with an idea. Not a problem.

Comic Books to the rescue.

Seriously. There are huge amounts of public domain comic books out there where you can easily read stories and rewrite them and publish them as a book. Comic Book Plus is a site where every comic book they have is verified in the public domain.

Go into a category you are interested in and start reading. You're sure to come up with new ideas to get you started writing your own book.

Here's an example of one of the covers.