Your own story

Tell your own life story as a comic.A chapter an issue, in your own words.

You've told these stories a hundred times: the first job, the move, the year everything changed. A comic keeps them the way you tell them, with you on the cast from a photo, the places as they were, and each issue one chapter, in your words.

A woman in a long coat stands at her front door holding a box of letters and photographs, looking down a path to the sea — Drawn in the Minimal-Line Memoir look

How it goes

Four steps to issue #1.

The premise
Start where the story starts, or where it turns: the town, the year, who you were then. The rating is yours to set; Mature is there for a life that wasn't rated Everyone.
The look
Minimal-Line Memoir keeps it quiet and plain; Painted Graphic Novel gives it weight; Risograph Zine suits a story told with a grin.
The people
Put yourself on the cast from a photo, then the people who mattered, from their photos with their blessing or from your words alone. Each gets a model sheet and is drawn in the look.
The chapters
One chapter an issue. Give the writer what happened in the comic desk's ideas box, change any issue's brief before it's written, and review the panels before it's finished.

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 woman who has moved house twenty-two times writes up each house as an issue, starting with the one that had a river at the bottom of the garden and ending with the one she's in now.
In the Minimal-Line Memoir look
Start with this idea
No. 2
A retired long-haul trucker tells his life one road at a time, and every issue is the one hitchhiker he picked up on it that he never managed to forget.
In the Painted Graphic Novel 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.

Can I be in it as myself?

Yes. Add a photo of yourself to your model sheet and you're drawn in the look from it, the same you in every panel.

What about the people who were really there?

Photos of real people are welcome when you have their permission; confirm it as you add each one. Or describe them in words and the studio draws them from that.

Does it have to be in order?

No. Each issue is one brief you can write or change before it's written, so start with the chapter you most want to see drawn.

More to make

Something else in mind?

Got your own idea already?

Start from a blank page

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