For a trip

Turn your trip into a comic diary.A day or a city an issue.

The photos never catch the best bits: the wrong train, the meal you can't name, the stranger who walked you to the hotel. A comic diary keeps them, with you and whoever came along on the cast, and every day or every city its own issue.

Two travellers with backpacks on a mountain station platform in the rain, one reading a timetable, a rusting local train waiting beside them — Drawn in the Floating World look

How it goes

Four steps to issue #1.

The premise
Write the trip the way you'd tell it when you got home: who went, where, what kept going wrong in the best way. Everyone or Teen for most trips.
The look
Floating World for a woodblock journey, Ligne Claire for the classic travel comic, Sunday Funnies for a family holiday that never quite went to plan.
The travellers
Everyone who came gets a model sheet, from a photo with their permission, so it's the real travellers in every panel. The places are described on the board and drawn in the look.
The days
One day or one city an issue. Drop each day into the comic desk's ideas box as it happens, or write the lot up afterwards, and the studio turns them into 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
Two old friends set out to cross a country by local trains only, and every issue is the one stop where the timetable, the weather or a stranger changes the whole plan.
In the Floating World look
Start with this idea
No. 2
A father and daughter spend one summer driving to every lighthouse on a coast, and every issue is a lighthouse, a keeper's story and one more thing they learn about each other.
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 while I'm still away?

Yes. Put each day into the comic desk's ideas box as it happens, and the studio writes and draws it as the next issue. Or wait and write the whole trip up when you're home.

Will the places look like the places?

The places are described on the board and drawn in your look, so the harbour and the hotel come back the same from panel to panel. A photo can inspire a cast member's sheet; a place is drawn from your words.

Who can be in it?

Anyone who came, from a photo with their permission. The people you met along the way can join the cast too; give them a name and a face of your own.

More to make

Something else in mind?

Got your own idea already?

Start from a blank page

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