Using the Comic & Manga Maker

Comic and Manga share the same editor -- the main differences are the art styles (Comic: Anime, Chibi, Webtoon, Noir, Retro; Manga: Classic B&W, Shōnen, Shōjo, Seinen, Chibi Manga), the page layouts, and reading direction (left-to-right vs. right-to-left for Manga). Every generation is a single panel; you build the page out of panels in the editor.

Building a story

1. Describe a panel. Click a panel, write what happens in the **Scene

Description** box -- one clear sentence usually works better than a long paragraph ("A hero stands on a rooftop overlooking a neon city at night, cape snapping in the wind").

2. Press Generate Panel (1 token). It usually takes a minute or two; the

panel shows a spinner while it works.

3. Click Add Panel to continue the story, or pick a layout to lay out a

full page at once (Comic: Single, 2 Side, 2 Stack, 3 Panel, 4 Grid; Manga: Full Page, 2 Tall, 3 Manga, 2×2 Grid, Splash). A layout with more slots than you have panels adds empty ones.

4. Generate All runs every panel that has a description, one after another

-- useful once you've written out a whole scene. Note that it includes panels that already have art (they're regenerated, 1 token each), so use it before generating panels one by one, not after.

Splitting a script into panels automatically

If you already have a written scene or short script, use Story in the toolbar to paste it in (or upload a .txt file), choose how many panels to split it into (2 to 12), and press Split into Panels -- it writes a description into each panel for you to review and generate.

Dialogue, sound effects, and narration

Switch to the Text tab for each panel to add:

• Dialogue -- with a bubble type: Speech, Thought, Shout, or Silent
• SFX (sound effect lettering; Manga offers presets like "バン BAN" and

"ドキドキ DOKI")

• Narration (caption box)

The AI art itself is generated without any text, and this lettering is laid over it -- in the editor preview, in exported files, and on your published page -- so you can add or edit it after generating, no need to regenerate the panel.

Keeping a character consistent across panels

Freehand text prompts alone tend to drift -- the same "silver-haired girl" looks a little different every panel. Two ways to fix that:

• Create a character once in the Character Creator

(describe them, or upload art you already have), then pick that character under Character in the panel's Scene tab. Every panel using that character shares their face, hair, and outfit.

• Upload sheet, pose or sketch directly on a panel (shown when no character

is selected) -- useful for a specific pose or angle rather than a full character identity.

Regenerating and undo

• Regenerate reruns a panel that already has art, using its current

description -- costs another token, replaces the image.

• Cmd/Ctrl+Z (and Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z to redo) undoes structural changes:

adding, removing, or reordering panels, switching layout, splitting a story, and generating. It does not undo individual keystrokes in a text box (and doesn't fire while you're typing in one).

• Reorder panels by dragging them in the panel rail (on desktop; on phones

and tablets the rail is tap-to-select only).

Publishing to a contest

If a weekly contest is running, a contest picker ("No contest" by default) appears next to Publish -- select one before publishing to submit your comic to it.

For saving, exporting to an image strip or CBZ archive, and publishing to the community feed, see Saving, Publishing & Exporting.