The iPhone is an unstoppable force. SuperLame will begin it’s next step forward, moving into the mobile space. Mobile as a platform has been growing without letup ever since the iPhone was first debuted back in 2007. SuperLame was launched to the public back in 2009. Since then, we’ve added a number of new features and grown in scope from the original idea.

The idea started as a small personal project, something that I wanted to do for my own personal use. The basic idea was to add comic balloons to images. To the best of my knowledge, and extensive google searches, I couldn’t find an app, web or desktop, that did what I wanted, and did it in a simple, elegant way. This was the beginning of what’s now the SuperLame web app.

Recently there have been a number of quality iPhone apps that allow people to do the same, or similar, things to what SuperLame as a web app offers to it’s users. My plan has always been to improve functionality, and offer this app to as many people as possible. This is where mobile will help expand the platform.

Between good press and a community of thankful, loyal users, SuperLame has expanded well beyond a small web app built in my basement office for my own personal use. People from South and North America, to Europe and even Japan. It seems like people from all around the globe are interested in adding comic bubbles and balloons to their photos.

The iPhone is the largest single smartphone platform currently available. It’s supported by some of the largest communications carriers in the world. Carriers in the US, like Sprint, have been clambering to get their hands on the iphone, while some of the largest international carriers have had it for years, like O2 in Europe. This means more people will be able to use the new mobile app than ever before.

We look forward to providing the best, most unique mobile app experience to people all over the globe.

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Unfortunately we had to start with replacing some of the fonts in the app due to the “good” folks at BlamBot, who before today didn’t know SuperLame even existed. You see, we contacted them to see if they’d like to make some kind of trade for some of their pro fonts to help make SuperLame just that much better. However, instead of any deal, they responded with a bill. They’ve said that even though SuperLame is non-profit, the fact that we embedded a couple of their free fonts into our app means we owe for distribution and embed licensing, at $400 each font.

Well, I don’t have that kind of scratch, so I’ve had to replace those fonts with some “real” free fonts. While they may not look quite the same, everything still functions and we’ll try to keep up the high quality you’ve come to expect from SuperLame.

Thanks for your support and for choosing SuperLame for all your comic balloon needs

Check it out and let us know what you think. http://apps.facebook.com/superlame

So, what’s all this gonna cost you? How about a million dollars? No, too high? Ha, now anything lower will sound good! Muwah, ha, ha, ha! Okay, you know what, how about you just donate something, $5 or more a year and we’ll give you all of these great extras, plus any and all the new features we continue to add and come up with. That’s it, whatever you want to donate, starting at $5/year. Don’t let that stop you from donating more if you really want to however.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. What’s this service called? Well, “SuperLame! Friends Plus”, or just “SuperLame! Plus”. It’s like friends with benefits or something along those lines. Let us know what you think.

Right, and finally, we’ll be trying to give back to those that help us. You help us, we help you. You see, in addition to getting all the great new features for donating, you’ll also have the opportunity to get promotion of your own on SuperLame! That means, if you opt in, you can get your site, blog, pictures, name, art, product, whatever, promoted on SuperLame! We will have exceptions and we are partial to pictures and photos.

Thanks for using SuperLame! for all your comic balloon needs!

At the moment you can buy a t-shirt with your custom made SuperLame! picture on it; t-shirt with the sweet SuperLame! icon logo on it; stickers with your custom made SuperLame! picture; or stickers of the SuperLame! icon logo. That’s just what we have right now, we’re going to try and get even more stuff to offer as soon as possible.

All you’ve got to do to get your own custom printed stuff is: 1) Create a SuperLame! comic picture. 2) Once you’ve saved it, click on the ‘shop’ icon on the top of the page. 3) Choose the stuff you want, fill out your shipping/billing info and payment info. 4) Wait for your awesome stuff. 5) Receive and enjoy your new awesome stuff.

Sorry international visitors, but the service is currently limited to the United States.

What do you think of the new logo? Leave a comment.

Labs will also have various SuperLame! Experiments we do that may not necessarily be implemented into the full functionality of the site anytime soon, if ever. In addition we’ll try to provide some tutorials, examples, and source for certain projects when we can. Sharing is caring baby!

So, if you’re interested in the future of SuperLame! or some of the inner workings, give it a look. Hope you enjoy the new SuperLame! Labs. Later.

SuperLame.com has just launched it’s public Beta. What is SuperLame? Well, I’m glad you asked. You may have heard the saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. So, if a picture alone is worth that much, how much more can you say with a picture that actually has words too? We’re betting more than a thousand.

Enter, SuperLame and our Comic Balloon Engine. Basically, it’s a simple web tool that gives users the power to easily and quickly add word balloons, speech bubbles, thought bubbles, whatever you want to call them, to your pictures.

Best of all, the entire tool is free for anyone to use. However, if you would like to donate to our cause, we wouldn’t turn you down, of course, and hey, it’s a tax right off, right?

The above picture is an example of what you can do with SuperLame. But, don’t take our word for it, check it out for yourself. Enjoy.

Balloon!