Every issue of the house comic, taken apart: the idea, the board, the panels that missed and the retakes that fixed them, what it cost. And plain guides to making a comic when you cannot draw a page.
Make a bedtime-story comic that stars your own child: drawn from a photo, rated Everyone, six to eight panels a night, read aloud when your voice gives out.
October 31, 2026 · 6 min read
How to turn your trip into a comic: one day in one place an issue, the wrong train and the closed diner, with the people who came drawn from their photos.
October 31, 2026 · 6 min read
How to start a comic story: open the first panel on a day already going wrong, name who we're with, and save the explaining. Shown on three real first panels.
October 31, 2026 · 6 min read
A one-shot comic tells its whole story in one issue; a series promises more. How to tell which yours is, and how to write a one-shot that ends.
October 31, 2026 · 6 min read
Make a comic about your own life: one memory, the moment it turns, six to eight panels, with you then in the picture and you now in the words.
October 30, 2026 · 6 min read
Make a comic for a school project: one idea, one character, four to six panels with a beginning, a middle and an end, and words short enough to read.
October 30, 2026 · 6 min read
Keep a comic character on-model in every panel: what a model sheet is, the few details that must never change, and how to hold them issue after issue.
October 30, 2026 · 6 min read
Turn your dog or cat into a comic character: the photo that works, the daily habit that becomes the strip, and the looks that suit a pet.
October 29, 2026 · 6 min read
Make a Valentine's comic of how you met: the moments to put in it, how the two of you get drawn without a pencil, and three ways to give it on the day.
October 27, 2026 · 6 min read
How to turn a family story into a comic: what to ask the person who remembers it, the photos to find, and how one memory becomes one issue.
October 25, 2026 · 6 min read
How comic lettering works: caption boxes, speech and thought balloons, where the words sit on a panel, and how many words one panel can hold.
October 23, 2026 · 6 min read
Most webcomics stop around issue five. How to start one that lasts: a small place, a small cast, and one thing that comes back every issue.
October 22, 2026 · 6 min read
Halftone, ligne claire, manga and gouache: what each comic art style is, where it comes from and what to look for, on one scene drawn in all four.
October 21, 2026 · 6 min read
Twelve comic strip ideas for beginners across six genres, and the test they all pass: a small place, a want, and a thing that comes back every issue.
October 21, 2026 · 4 min read
Turn each D&D session into a comic issue: eight panels with the party drawn in them, narrated in about a minute. The recap your table will actually read.
October 21, 2026 · 6 min read
A holiday comic instead of a card says what this year was. Ideas for any winter holiday, how to make one in an evening, and three ways to send it on the day.
October 21, 2026 · 6 min read
A comic book issue runs about twenty pages, a daily strip three or four panels. How to pick the length your story needs, shown on an eight-panel issue.
October 21, 2026 · 5 min read
How to make a comic without drawing: an artist, a template, drawing just enough, or an AI studio that draws from your words, with the honest trade-offs of each.
October 21, 2026 · 4 min read
How to write a comic script: the picture and the words for every panel, the format on a real issue's first page, and the mistakes that make it hard to draw.
October 21, 2026 · 6 min read
How a comic issue is made, step by step: one idea about a laundromat, a cast of three, eight panels and a cold read, and what each step cost in credits.
October 21, 2026 · 5 min read
How the second issue of a comic series was made: a new villain on the cast, a script the writer rewrote and we put back, two retakes, and what it cost.
October 21, 2026 · 5 min read
How the third issue of a comic series was made: the writer cut its best beat, so we put it back on the storyboard and fixed a raincoat that changed colour.
October 21, 2026 · 5 min read
How to make a personalized comic book as a gift: their face, their story, the running joke only you two share. Made in an evening, with three ways to give it.
October 21, 2026 · 5 min read
Superhero comic ideas told from beside the cape: fourteen premises about the landlord, the laundromat and the tow-truck driver who clean up after the hero.
October 21, 2026 · 6 min read
A comic script example, panel by panel: the eight captions of a finished issue, eighteen words each, and the three fixes a cold read made so it lands by ear.
October 21, 2026 · 4 min read