For the holidays

Send a holiday comic instead of a card.Your family, drawn, with a story inside.

A card says the same thing every year. A comic says what this year was: the house move, the new puppy, the cousin who finally visited. Put the family on the cast from your photos, write one issue for the season you keep, and send it to everyone on the list.

A crowded kitchen on a festive night, a man holding a steaming dish over his head while the kids grab plates and more relatives arrive at the door with trays — Drawn in the Street-Pop Remix look

How it goes

Four steps to issue #1.

The premise
Write the year as a story: the family on a mission to find the lost decorations, the grandparents who cross the world for the feast. Name the festival you keep and the comic keeps it too. Everyone, so every relative can read it.
The look
Street-Pop Remix for a loud, neon greeting; Paper Cut-Out for something that looks like a card; Stained Glass for a season with candles.
The family
Everyone who should be in it gets a model sheet from a photo, with their permission, and is drawn in the look. The dog too.
The issue
One issue for the season. Review the panels, ask for another take on any that miss, then download it as a narrated video or its panels and send it round, or share it by link.

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
A family of five realises on the morning of the festival that each of them has invited a different set of guests to the same dinner, and the house has to become big enough for all of them by sunset.
In the Street-Pop Remix look
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No. 2
The grandmother who hosts every year has lost her voice the week before the feast, so she runs the whole holiday with notes, hand signals and one very loud grandchild.
In the Paper Cut-Out look
Start with this idea

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.

Does it have to be Christmas?

No. Name the festival you keep in the premise, whether Diwali, Lunar New Year, Eid, Hanukkah or the solstice, and the story, the food and the lights follow it.

How do I send it?

Download the finished issue as a narrated video with music, or as its panels in a zip with the captions, and send it the way you'd send a card, or share it by link.

Can it be a series?

Yes. The same cast comes back next year, drawn from the same model sheets, so issue #2 is next year's card.

More to make

Something else in mind?

Got your own idea already?

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