That's when Jacob Blackstock drew a profane spoof of Charlie Brown and Lucy Van Pelt from the 'Peanuts' comic strip and passed it to Shahan Panth, who sat behind him in 12th-grade English class.
The concept for a mobile application that lets people turn their lives into comic strips took shape as a high school diversion more than 20 years ago. But the Toronto startup's success was a drawn-out process. Bitstrips may seem like a sudden sensation now that the app maker's comic vignettes are all over Facebook and other social networks.
