I customized this cartoon with my own title and text using comicstripgenerator.com. It was very easy to browse through the pictures, and then to add your own text and title. They provide the boxes, and you just have to pick your image and type your title and text. Save your image to your hard drive, and then it's yours to use, complete with their citation as part of the graphic. Many of our students learn visually (maybe because of an increase in their consumption of visual media--television, video games, etc.), so having them create a comic to illustrate a concept would be a fun instructional activity. What I didn't like about this website is that it is so cluttered with advertisements and content that could be used inappropriately in the classroom. You could still do a comic-strip creating activity by having students browse for an image (maybe using Flickr's Creative Commons search), import it into almost any basic productivity software program (Word, PowerPoint, Photoshop, etc.) to add a text bubble.
http://www.customizemagnets.com/ecards/childrens.asp has a good selection of kid-friendly images to customize, but there are large ads that might distract young children from the original purpose of the activity.
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