plasq today released Comic Life Magiq 1.0 for Mac OS X 10.5. If you have every played with the original Comic Life, you know to expect lots of fun eye-candy. Comic Life Magiq doesn't disappoint. This entirely new photo-comic desktop publishing software allows you to quickly create awesome artwork using build-in templates or warp images with the new Magiq image editor.

Comic Life Magiq is built from the ground up and leverages 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. The 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. A high degree of control over individual comic elements enables complex gradients, reflections, brushes, line styles, fill options, shadows and more. The modular interface lets users hide or view these details while navigating through a continuous WSYWIG page layout view.

Also included are a collection of artist-commissioned templates, props, balloon shapes and spraycans to both inspire and get users straight into the fun. Templates cover a wide variety of life's events and characters including birthdays, pets, outdoor activities etc.

Comic Life Magiq requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and above. Comic Life Magiq costs USD$44.95. Crossgrades from Comic Life Basic, Comic Life Deluxe and Comic Life Apple Bundle are available for USD$29.95.