Abstract: System and method for collaborative comic creation and editing by a plurality of users. Users may access the comic from a central server (aka shared data center) over the internet. When a user begins to make a change to a selected object in the comic, a momentary object lock may be generated and propagated to the other users to prevent them from making conflicting changes to the object. Modified comic data defining the change may then be sent from the user's computer to the central server for storage and propagation to the other users to update the comic at the user terminals and the central server. Each user may have a set of editing privileges which define the comic data the user may change. A permanent lock may be generated for each user and applied against the comic data that the user is not entitled to change.