Sniffles' Comic Chat Place

omic Chat is the most interesting and innovative of all the irc (internet relay chat...ie: a chat program) clients. It is hard to explain it to someone who has never seen or used it. I like to describe it as a moving comic strip where each chatter has a character to represent themselves.

As with a comic strip, chatters talk with speech bubbles and can direct their conversation to a particular person or persons. We can play sound files that others can hear and we can transfer files. Best of all, the MS Comic Chat program is FREE!

This is what comic chat looks like:

Welcome to my Comic Chat Help site!

To start chatting using MS Comic Chat, click on the Comic Chat Tutorial link below. There you will find the MS Comic Chat download, learn how to configure the program , connect to a server and learn all about the nuances of chatting with Comics! You can click here to download the program or visit Mermaid Elizabeth's download page where you will find Comic Chat program in many different languages.

If you want to find a character to use, click on my Comic Chat Character Link or the Links Button to go to other sites. If you feel some artistic leanings, you may want to try the Comic Character Editor to design your own character. My Character Editor Tutorials will help you get started.

I also have sound wavs that you can use in Comic Chat as well as tutorials on how to convert and compress sound files for playing in Comic Chat.

If you are new to the wacky world of chatting, be sure to check out my Chat Etiquette and Chat Acronyms pages.

Be sure to visit my Funnies page which has recently been updated.

If you are interested in reading about the origins and development of Comic Chat, click here.

Want to learn more about the interface (or, for non geeks, window) that you use in Comic Chat? Check out the Image Map of Comic Chat in action! If you want to know about the function of any part of the window, just click on the image. Note that to use the helpful information here, you must have popups enabled for my site in your browser.

June 16th, 2008 Has it really been a year since I added an update? No, however I haven't placed an update here. I have been working on the pIRCh page and added a pIRCh download and I have fixed the broken/discontinued links. It is becoming harder to find a download online because it is an older program and fewer people are using it. I have corrected all the "e-mail me" links to reflect a new address (at least I hope they are all correct now).

August 29, 2008 I have had some emails from David (DJ) Kurlander. How cool is that!! DJ worked for Microsoft and was the programmer who created Comic Chat. DJ has been doing some work on his web site and has created a few pages dedicated to comic chat. You can view DJ's video gallery here. There is a video showing the first ever Microsoft commercial featuring Comic Chat and another showing Bill Gates giving a speech at MIT featuring Comic Chat. The third video is a comic chat demo meant to go with the Siggraph. None of these videos has been published to the web before.

DJ said: "I also posted a brief article about Comic Chat from I.D. Magazine… finally had a chance to scan it in, and it’s one of my favorites, since I.D. is probably the top magazine in the world about design". You can find that article here.

DJ was kind of excited to see that Comic Chat is still being used by some and also created these pages on his web site:

Comic Chat Resources. Comic Chat - How to Get Started in 6 Easy Steps.

If you have any questions or comments about anything on my site or you find any broken links, please e-mail me.

Happy Chatting!