Patent ID: 8429523

Claim:
A comic creation apparatus, comprising: a processor configured to execute a comic creation program that causes the processor to function as: a frame candidate setting unit configured to set a plurality of frame candidates of different sizes that can be arranged immediately adjacent to a first frame arranged on a page of a comic; a frame candidate display unit configured to display each of the plurality of frame candidates in a corresponding location on the page; a frame determination unit configured to arrange one frame candidate of the plurality of frame candidates, which is selected from among the plurality of frame candidates displayed on the page, in the corresponding location on the page as a second frame and erase each of the plurality of frame candidates other than the one selected frame candidate; and a layout candidate setting unit configured to set layout candidates in which a character and a speech balloon are arranged along a movement path of a line of sight of a user that moves between frames in accordance with a positional relationship between the selected frame and frames arranged around the selected frame.