For one session

Turn one night's tabletop one-shot into a comic.One session, one issue.

A one-shot is over by midnight and gone by the weekend: the near-miss, the line everyone quoted, the player who rolled the one. Panel & Ink turns that one night into a single issue — your party as the cast, your table's setting as the places — in any game you play.

A man in a long coat and hat stands silhouetted in the snowy doorway of a diner while the couples in the booths stare up from their coffee — Drawn in the Four-Colour Fright look

How it goes

Four steps to issue #1.

The premise
Write the one-shot's setup: the setting, the hook, what the party is after. Any game at the table suits it. Teen suits most tables — fights, scares and loss, like a PG-13 film.
The look
Four-Colour Fright for a horror night, Crypt Horror if it went darker, Shonen Ink for the fight scenes. One look, one issue, every panel in it.
The party
Each player's character gets a model sheet, described the way its player sees it, or drawn from a sketch someone made at the table — up to eight regulars.
The issue
After the session, write what happened in the comic desk's ideas box. Read the script, ask for another take on any panel that misses, and download the finished issue for everyone at the table.

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
Five strangers snowed into a roadside diner on the longest night of the year, and whoever walked in out of the blizzard an hour ago has no footprints behind them.
In the Four-Colour Fright look
Start with this idea
No. 2
A crew of retired pirates comes out of hiding for one last job: stealing back the ship that was taken from them, now a museum in the one harbour where they are all still wanted.
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.

Does it have to be a campaign?

No. One session is one issue. A comic can stop at issue #1, and if the table ever meets again the next session becomes issue #2.

Which games work?

Any tabletop game you play. The studio draws your party and your world, not a game's own named characters or settings, so give the famous villain a name and a face of your own.

Can I keep what the players said?

Yes. Put the best lines in the ideas box with what happened, and the writer works them in. You read the script before any panel is drawn, so a line that came out wrong is fixed first.

More to make

Something else in mind?

Got your own idea already?

Start from a blank page

35 credits when you sign up · no card