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For Immediate Release
March 13, 2009

Pixton Unveils World’s First Remixable Animated Comics at South by Southwest Interactive 2009

User-generated website leads the next generation of interactive comics

AUSTIN, Texas – March 13, 2009 – Pixton Comics Inc., the leading developer of interactive web comics, announced today the world’s first remixable animated comics at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.

A first-of-its-kind experience, Pixton users will soon be able to quickly and easily create animated avatars and comics, ready for the world to view and remix online.

“Pixton has already broken new ground with its award-winning comic creation software,” said Clive Goodinson, creator of Pixton.com. “You design every aspect of your comic right on the page, clicking and dragging your characters into any pose. You can format your comic as a traditional three-panel strip or a page-spanning epic. Nowhere else can you do this.”

Pixton has a powerful and intuitive click-and-drag interface that makes it easy for anyone to make comics and animation. It works in any web browser, on Mac or PC. Animations are edited and previewed in real-time, then automatically rendered to video when complete. Once published, animated comics can be posted to social networks, embedded in blogs, and uploaded to video-sharing websites.

“I’ve had fun developing the technology that makes all this possible,” said Goodinson. “Our community is really excited to bring their comics to life. Pixton animation opens the doors to a whole new world of interactivity and collaboration on the web.”

Pixton is a finalist along with Flickr, StumbleUpon, and others in the SXSW Interactive Web Awards presented by Adobe. Pixton is also exhibiting at the SXSW Interactive Trade Show in Booth 208 from March 14-16, demonstrating Pixton animation on a giant touchscreen.

For more information about Pixton, please visit: http://pixton.com.

About Pixton
Pixton.com gives people the power to create, animate and remix comics in an online community. Pixton is fun and easy-to-use for all ages, and is available in over 40 languages.

Since its launch in January 2008, Pixton has been awarded Adobe Site of the Day, FITC Toronto, an iParenting Media Award (Disney), an Interactive Media Award, Finalist in Canadian New Media Awards, and Finalist in SXSW Interactive Web Awards. Pixton’s patent-pending technology is leading the next generation of interactive web comics.

Pixton is also completely re-brandable, as seen on Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day website (http://www.rednoseday.com/fun_and_games). A customized Pixton Comic Creator can function to increase audience engagement in a brand, particularly with character-driven content.

Pixton Comics, headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, is dedicated to making exceptional software that empowers people with tools to communicate creatively. A two-person team, Clive and DainaGoodinson are passionately committed to thinking outside the box and innovating daily. For more information, please visit: http://pixton.com.

About the SXSW Interactive Festival
Scheduled March 13-17 in Austin, Texas, the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival provides practical how-to information as well as unparalleled career inspiration, bringing together some of emerging technology’s most creative thinkers. The event features five days of keynote sessions, more than 200 panels, the SXSW Web Awards, the Interactive and Film Trade Show & Exhibition, the ScreenBurn Arcade, the Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator at SXSW, and dozens of exciting evening events. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. For more information on SXSW Interactive, see www.sxsw.com/interactive.

For further information, please call 1-888-7-PIXTON or email .

Pixton Comics Inc. is headquartered in Parksville, British Columbia, Canada.