1.
GENERATING COMICS
WITH JAVASCRIPT
#COMICGEN @SANAND0

2.
AMMA, WHO IS THE MOST FAMOUS MAN?
1984

3.
I WANT TO DRAW COMICS FOR DISNEY
1990

4.
I CAN’T DRAW ANYTHING
1992

5.
But, others can
So I just use them
(That’s my motto, BTW)
1999

6.
My
life’s
work
I typed out
every single
Calvin & Hobbes
strip by hand.
Took six years.
2001 - 2007
2007

7.
Soon, my Calvin
site was on the
front page of
Reddit, Slashdot,
and Hacker News.
… until I got a legal
copyright notice from
UComics citing DMCA
(Digital Millenium Copyright Act)
2009

8.
BY 2011, I HAD
CO-FOUNDED GRAMENER
2014

9.
As Gramener grew, our design
team was growing crazy too
2015

10.
Our content was
often illustrated with
comics – typically
two characters
named Dee & Dey

11.
Comicgen is a
programming
library that lets
you automate
comic creation
GRAMENER.COM / COMICGEN /

12.
https://codepen.io/richielionell/pen/jRmjOY
COMICGEN CAN BE USED IN PROGRAMS
… AND THIS CAN CREATE MAGIC

13.
WE FED IT INTO OUR DATA STORIES
State Constituency Candidate Party #
CG Mahasamund Chandu Lal Sahu BJP 11
CG Bilaspur Lakhan Lal Sahu BJP 5
DL West Delhi Jarnail Singh AAP 3
MP Rewa Janardan Mishra BJP 2
UP Mathura Hema Malini BJP 2
HR Kurukshetra Raj Kumar Saini BJP 2
MP Hoshangabad Uday Pratap Singh BJP 2
MH Osmanabad GR Vishwanath SS 2
HR Sonipat Padam Singh INLD 2
TN Salem Umarani S DMDK 2
UP Unnao Anil Kumar SPI 2
Eleven
“Chandu Lal
Sahu”s!?
Two “Hema
Malini”s
No MPs of
Congress…

14.
https://gramener.com/playground/datacomics/wbl

15.
Let’s create a
comic strip now
Dee at jsFoo
GRAMENER.COM / COMICGEN /

16.
EMBED USING JS IN POWER BI, PPT, ETC
https://github.com/gramener/comicgen-powerbi

17.
DATA-DRIVEN EXPRESSIONS
https://gramener.com/faces/

18.
MOST HAIR
MOST CASES
LEAST WINS

19.
BANGALORECENTRAL
WON: MONEY & LOANS
#2. MONEY, LOANS, EDU#3. MONEY, LOANS, CRIME
POOR GUY

20.
Animatable characters
are the next step
Using Vivus Instant

21.
Hacker News, several Japanese & Chinese sites…
USERS ARE CREATING COMICS.
YOU CAN TOO #COMICGEN

22.
DESIGNERS ARE CONTRIBUTING CHARACTERS.
YOU CAN TOO. GRAMENER.COM/COMICGEN/
Donald Trump is on the way

23.
STAR TV VIEWERSHIP
IS DIPPING IN THE SOUTH
EXCEPT AP/TL.
MY COMICS ARE USED BY DISNEY
2019

24.
COMICS ARE JUST
ONE COPY-PASTE AWAY
WHY DON’T YOU
CREATE COMIC STORIES?
THANK YOU