A cartographer in a drowned city is hired to map streets that have been underwater for a century, and every street she charts rises out of the water the next morning.
In the Crystal Odyssey look
Start with this ideaFor writers
See your novel as a comic.Your characters, finally drawn.
You know exactly what your characters look like. Panel & Ink draws them: put your book's setup in the premise and your characters on the cast, then read your story back as issues, panel by panel, in the look you choose.
How it goes
Four steps to issue #1.
- The premise
Write the pitch you'd put on the back cover: the world, the lead, what they want, what stands in the way.
- The look
Pick the look your book has in your head: Gekiga's gritty brush, Crystal Odyssey's dreamlike science fiction, Painted Graphic Novel for an epic.
- The cast
Each character gets a model sheet. Describe them the way your book does and the studio draws them from your words; draw one again until it matches the picture in your head.
- The chapters
Give the writer each chapter's events as an idea, and it becomes that issue's brief. Change any brief before its issue is written.
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 No. 2 A disgraced chess champion takes a job as night porter in a grand hotel where every guest is playing a game she can't see the board of.
In the Carved Noir look
Start with this idea
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.
Painted Graphic Novelpainted in watercolour and gouache 
Gekigagritty black-and-white brushwork 
Crystal Odysseyfine lines, vast dreamy landscapes 
Carved Noirstark black and white, deep shadows
The letters page
Questions, answered.
Can I adapt a book someone else wrote?
Only your own. Named characters someone else owns aren't drawn, so a comic of your novel is yours to make, and a comic of somebody else's series isn't.
Does it follow my book page by page?
It follows what you give it. The premise and the cast come from you, each chapter's events can be an issue's brief, and the writer turns them into panels and narration.
Who owns the comic?
You do. Your premise, your characters and the finished issues are yours. We don't claim them, and we don't train models on them.
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