Biscuit, a scruffy terrier with one ear that won't stand up, appoints himself head of security for the whole street — and every issue a new suspect walks past the front window.
In the Sunday Funnies look
Start with this ideaStarring your pet
Make a comic about your dog or cat.Drawn from a photo, kept in every panel.
Your pet already has a personality big enough for a comic: the nemesis next door, the sock heists, the long war with the vacuum cleaner. Add a photo and Panel & Ink draws them in your look, then draws every panel of them from that sheet, so the ears, the coat and the markings carry from issue to issue.
How it goes
Four steps to issue #1.
- The premise
Name your pet and say who they are: the scruffy terrier who guards the street, the cat who runs the house. Choose Everyone as the rating on the first step if the kids will read along.
- The look
Soft picture-book paint, a bouncy Sunday strip, a noir detective in black and white. Your pet is drawn in it from the first panel.
- The photo
On Cast & World your pet gets a model sheet. Add a photo, tick that it's yours to use, and the studio describes them from it and draws them in the look.
- The issues
Every panel of your pet is drawn from that sheet. Give the writer the real stories — the sock heist, the great escape at the vet — and they become issues.
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 No. 2 Miso, a round orange cat, has decided the new baby is her apprentice, and every issue she teaches it one more of the house's secrets.
In the Storybook Gouache look
Start with this idea
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.
Storybook Gouachesoft painted picture-book 
Sunday Funniessimple round cartoons, soft colour 
Marcinelle Rompbouncy cartoons, big noses, bright colour 
Carved Noirstark black and white, deep shadows
The letters page
Questions, answered.
Will it really look like my pet?
The model sheet is drawn from your photo, and every panel of your pet is drawn from that sheet, so the colour, the ears and the markings carry through. If one panel misses, ask for another take on it.
Which photo works best?
One clear photo of your pet on their own, in good light, showing their face and coat. You can swap it, or draw the sheet again, before the comic is made.
Can the family be in it too?
Yes. Anyone can join the cast, and photos of real people are welcome when you have their permission.
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