For the road

Turn your road trip into a comic.One stop, one issue.

A road trip is already in issues: the day the car refused, the motel with the pool, the diner that was closed. Make each stop a comic issue, with everyone in the car drawn from their photos and the car drawn the same at every stop, written from your notes as you go or when you're home.

Three friends and a broken-down estate car on a desert road: one under the bonnet, one on the roof with a map, one in a folding chair eating crisps — Drawn in the Risograph Zine look

How it goes

Four steps to issue #1.

The premise
Write where you're going, who's in the car and what the car is like. Everyone or Teen as the rating, depending on how the trip went.
The look
Risograph Zine for the trip zine you'd have made at the time, Ligne Claire for the clean postcard, Minimal-Line Memoir for the quiet version.
The cast
Everyone in the car gets a model sheet, from a photo with their permission, and is drawn in the look from it. Put the car in the premise and it's the same car at every stop.
The issues
One stop an issue. Drop each day's notes into the comic desk's ideas box as you go, or write the whole trip when you're home, and download each finished issue for the people who were in the car.

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
Three cousins drive their late uncle's ancient station wagon from one coast to the other to deliver it to the one relative who wanted it, and every issue the car refuses a different state.
In the Risograph Zine look
Start with this idea
No. 2
A mother and her teenage son drive north to see the midnight sun with no plan past the first motel, and every issue she picks the route, he picks the music, and neither admits the other was right.
In the Ligne Claire 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 make it as we go?

Yes. Drop each day's notes into the comic desk's ideas box from your phone, and each becomes an issue's brief. Or write the whole trip when you're home, one stop at a time.

What if the trip hasn't happened yet?

Then it's a comic of the trip you're planning. Write where you mean to go and who's coming, and the writer fills in the road. The real trip can be the second comic.

How do we share it with everyone from the car?

Download each finished issue as a narrated video with music, or as its panels in a zip with the captions, or send them the link to the finished issue.

More to make

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