To paste in the URL of your comic, click Submit a Link at the right of the f7u12 page. For that you need to go to Reddit to create an account. Now the best part - showing the world how angry you are. Rage Maker will display the URL of your uploaded comic. Click Upload to Imgur ( is a popular image-sharing site that will assign a URL to your uploaded comic). This will take you to another panel of controls. To publish your comic, click the Save/Load button near the top right of Rage Maker. The fourth panel can simply be one image, representing your reaction, chosen from Rage Maker’s built-in sets. In the third, have the other character say whatever it is that is unexpected and exasperating. In the second, have the heads talk some more. Chain restaurants and stores in your strip should likewise be renamed McDerp’s, Derp Buy and so on.Īn easy formula for a rage comic that doesn’t confuse readers is this: Set up a dialogue between two characters, one of whom is you, in the first panel. Refer to yourself as “le moi.” Male characters are named Herp and Derp women are Herpina and Derpina. Reading a few comics will familiarize you with the genre’s verbal conventions. Like the images, you can resize and reposition it. Clicking will insert a text-editing box into your currently selected panel. To insert labels and dialogue, click the button labeled Standard at the top middle of Rage Maker. To move it around inside the panel, grab it anywhere else and drag it. Drag some faces into the panels, then grab the square in the lower right corner of the inserted face to resize it. Browse through the available faces by clicking the menu on the left side that says Neutral, which is just one of dozens of sets of faces sporting expressions. The tool allows you to import images and draw with your mouse, but it is easier to start with a dialogue between two clip-art heads. Rage Maker will start you off with a blank four-panel strip. Go to, one of several browser-based rage comic editing and publishing tools. (My editor wanted to do one about my weekly promises to finish this article.) Getting started is easy. You might already have an idea for a rage comic of your own. In another, a father is enjoying time with his daughter when the girl asks, “Daddy, why are you so ugly?” The father’s response: his eyes spurt bright blue tears. In one strip, the author tries to nudge a ladybug off his car’s windshield by flicking his wipers, only to smear the hapless insect across the glass. The best stories are those that could happen to anyone. It is just the first woman’s face - alone, weary and resigned to her friend’s vapidity. “I don’t think so,” the other replies, “but I’m glad you finally realized that you need to start a diet!” The stark fourth panel has no dialogue. One asks the other if she has read “The Hunger Games” books. Popular themes are public embarrassment, private shame in the bedroom or bathroom, and most of all, the unbearable burden of dealing with other people’s stupidity.įor example: Two female heads on a white background are talking. Most are the creations of anonymous people seeking not fame, but an audience with whom they can air their dark wit. Today, thousands of rage comics are posted daily. They have created a genre of Internet humor that, unlike the Keyboard Cat or Rickrolling, two famous Internet memes, continues to grow nearly five years after its obscure beginnings.

Many people with little to no artistic ability - but with some pretty funny tales - do that in something called rage comics. Or you can head to the Web to assemble and publish a cartoon to share some of that rage. When you get angry, you can lash out or seethe inside.

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