For bedtime

A bedtime story starring your own kid.A new issue, the same small hero.

The bedtime story they ask for is always the one with them in it. Make it a comic: your kid drawn from a photo as the hero, their stuffed heron on the cast, a soft look, and an issue that is read aloud, so when your voice gives out the narration carries on.

A girl tucked up in bed under a paper lantern, the moonlit paper sea around her and a lighthouse beam reaching her from a rock — Drawn in the Paper Cut-Out look

How it goes

Four steps to issue #1.

The premise
Write your kid and the world they fall asleep into: the bed that sails out of the window, the star that went missing. Choose Everyone as the rating on the first step — nothing frightening at bedtime.
The look
Paper Cut-Out's torn layers and soft shadows, Storybook Gouache's picture-book paint, Woodland Fable's pen and watercolour.
The cast
Add a photo of your kid to their model sheet — yours to use — and they're drawn in the look from it, the same small hero in every panel. The stuffed animal and the dog can join the cast.
The issues
Each issue is one night's story, narrated with music, so play it with the light off, or download the panels with the captions and read it yourself. Read the script first, before a panel is drawn.

Start from one of these

Make one of these yours.

Press start and the premise lands in the box of a new comic with its look already picked. Change every word, or the look, before anything is drawn.

No. 1
Every night after the light goes off, four-year-old Ines's bed sails out of the window to a different island, and every issue the island has one problem only a person her size can fix.
In the Paper Cut-Out look
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No. 2
A boy who cannot sleep until he has counted every star finds out one is missing, and each issue he and his stuffed heron go out to fetch another one home.
In the Storybook Gouache look
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More premises to start from

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.

See all twenty-eight looks

The letters page

Questions, answered.

Is it read aloud?

Yes. Every finished issue is narrated with music, so you can play it at bedtime — or download its panels with the captions and do the voices yourself.

Can my kid ask for what happens next?

Yes. Put their request in the comic desk's ideas box — the dragon comes back, the island gets a slide — and it becomes the next issue's brief. You read the script before a panel is drawn.

Is it safe for a small kid?

Choose Everyone as the rating on the first step: warm, nothing frightening. And you read every script first, so nothing reaches the bed that you haven't seen.

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