A frontier town's new sheriff is a retired schoolteacher who has never held a gun.
Start with this ideaFour historical comic ideas.Take one. Make it yours.
A real era with a secret folded inside it: a frontier town, a jazz club, a city of gaslights, a samurai's oath. The period gives a comic its costumes and its streets; the secret gives it a story.
Press start on any of them and it lands in the premise box of a new comic, where every word is yours to change. Then you pick a look, meet the cast, and Panel & Ink writes and draws the first issue.
No. 1 No. 2 A 1920s jazz pianist hides messages for the resistance inside every song she plays.
Start with this ideaNo. 3 A Victorian lamplighter is the only one who notices the city's shadows moving on their own.
Start with this ideaNo. 4 A samurai sworn to guard a sleeping princess realises she's been awake the whole time, planning.
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Looks that suit it
Draw it in one of these.
Or in any of the twenty-eight. A comic picks one look on its second step, and every panel of every issue keeps it.
Floating Worldwoodblock print, flat colour, bold waves 
Carved Noirstark black and white, deep shadows 
Ligne Claireclean outlines, flat colour 
Painted Graphic Novelpainted in watercolour and gouache
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