AI comic generator

Your story, drawn as a comic.

Type a few lines or upload a whole book. Paneller draws every page in the style you pick and letters every word exactly as you wrote it.

  • Free to start, no card needed
  • First page in about a minute
  • Manga, western or minimalist
Comic page adapted from The Gift of the Magi: Della counts her one dollar and eighty-seven cents, then weeps on the couch.
Manga-style comic page: in a Lagos kitchen, Grandma Ade teaches Tunde to cook jollof rice while he checks his phone, and the rice burns.
Western-style comic page in color: Detective Whiskers, a cat in a trench coat, questions Bubbles the goldfish about a missing sardine.
Real pages, drawn by Paneller from a few lines and a book.

Meanwhile, in a notes app…

Four sentences in.
Two pages out.

It starts with a few lines…
In Lagos, Grandma Ade teaches her grandson Tunde to cook jollof rice for his first date with Amaka. Tunde keeps checking his phone and the rice burns. Panicking, he serves it anyway. Amaka tastes it, laughs, and says party jollof is supposed to be a little burnt at the bottom.
  • Manga
  • 2 pages
  • 4 panels a page
Manga-style comic page: in a Lagos kitchen, Grandma Ade teaches Tunde to cook jollof rice while he checks his phone, and the rice burns.Manga-style comic page: Tunde nervously serves the burnt jollof to Amaka, who laughs and says party jollof is supposed to be a little burnt at the bottom.

…and minutes later, two finished pages. Exactly as Paneller drew them, words and all.

How it works

One click from story to comic.

  1. Step 1
    Grandma Ade teaches Tunde jollof…

    Tell the story

    Type a few lines, paste a chapter or upload a whole book. Pick manga, western or minimalist.

  2. Step 2

    Paneller draws it

    It plans the scenes, keeps every character looking the same from page to page, and draws each page. Your first page is ready in about a minute.

  3. Step 3
    Change any word!

    Make it yours

    Change any words, redraw a single panel, add the next page, then export a PNG or a PDF.

Three styles

Collect all three!

  • Manga

    Style 1 of 3
    Manga-style comic page: Ember, a shy young dragon, sneezes fire during her job interview at Mrs Pemberton's bakery.
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    Screentone
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    Black-and-white ink with screentones.

  • Western

    Style 2 of 3
    Western-style comic page in color: Detective Whiskers, a cat in a trench coat, questions Bubbles the goldfish about a missing sardine.
    Ink
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    Color
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    Drama
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    Bold inks and bright, flat colors.

  • Minimalist

    Style 3 of 3
    Minimalist comic page: two astronauts, Lena and Viktor, bicker while fixing the radio on the moon.
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    Calm
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    Clean lines, calm colors, lots of space.

Books

From prose to panels!

Upload a novel, a script or a short story as a PDF, Word file or EPUB. Paneller reads all of it, finds the main characters and plans it as up to 40 pages of scenes, for you to check before the pages are drawn.

Adapt a book
Comic page adapted from The Gift of the Magi: Della counts her one dollar and eighty-seven cents, then weeps on the couch.Comic page adapted from The Gift of the Magi: Della lets down her long hair before the mirror, then rushes out of the door.
The first two of eight pages adapted from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry (1905).
Page 13 of a 1946 superhero comic book, now in the public domain, in its original printed colors.

Page 13 · 1946

Page 14, drawn by Paneller to carry on the 1946 comic: the heroes read that a villain has escaped and set off after him, in the same printed style.

Page 14 · drawn by Paneller

Page 13 is from a 1946 comic book that's now in the public domain. Paneller drew page 14 to carry it on.

Your comic

Your comic, to be continued!

Upload the pages you've made as a PDF, a CBZ or images. Paneller reads the story so far, learns how it's drawn and draws the next pages to match: your characters, your panels, your lettering.

Continue my comic

Official handbook

Powers & abilities

  • Your own characters

    Add up to four drawings of a character and give them a name. They're drawn from your pictures in every comic you make.

  • Every word as you wrote it

    Paneller letters your script in clean speech bubbles aimed at whoever's talking. Click any bubble to change the words.

  • Fix one panel

    Redraw a single panel with a note, like “make it rain”, and keep the rest of the page as it is.

  • Keep the story going

    Add a page and Paneller carries the story on, or tell it what happens next.

  • Check first, if you like

    Tick one box to read every scene and see your characters before a single page is drawn.

  • Ready to share

    Export each page as a PNG, or the whole comic as one PDF.

Amazing offer!

Your first 3 pages are free!

Confirm your email and you get 3 free credits: a credit draws a page, redraws a panel or draws a character's look. Words, bubbles, translations and exports are always free. Want more? Pick a pack: credits never expire.

  • Single issue

    50pages

    50 credits, for pages or panel redraws

    $9.9920¢ a page

  • Best value!

    Volume

    110pages

    110 credits, for pages or panel redraws

    $19.9918¢ a page

  • Omnibus

    240pages

    240 credits, for pages or panel redraws

    $39.9917¢ a page

Start with 3 free pages

No card to start. Buy credits from your account whenever you want more.

Your questions, answered

Letters to Paneller

Dear Paneller,Is Paneller free?

It's free to start: confirm your email and you get 3 free credits, enough for 3 pages. No card needed. After that, packs start at $9.99 for 50 pages (less, in local money, in much of Africa), and their credits never expire.

— The editors

Dear Paneller,What does a credit pay for?

Drawings: a credit draws a page, redraws a panel or draws a character's look. Changing the words, moving bubbles, translating and exporting are always free, and a drawing that fails gives its credits back.

— The editors

Dear Paneller,How long does a comic take?

Your first page is usually ready in about a minute. In a longer comic, the first page is drawn first, then the rest are drawn together to match it.

— The editors

Dear Paneller,Can I use my own characters?

Yes. Add up to four drawings of a character, like sketches, scans or digital art, and give them a name. Use that name in your story and they're drawn from your pictures. Photos of real people aren't accepted.

— The editors

Dear Paneller,What can I turn into a comic?

A story you type or paste, up to 3,000 characters. A book or long document as a PDF, Word file, EPUB or text file, adapted into as many as 40 pages. Or your own comic as a PDF, CBZ or page images, which Paneller carries on in your style.

— The editors

Dear Paneller,Can I make a comic about famous characters?

The artist can't draw characters someone else owns, like superheroes or cartoon characters, or real people. When a story has them, Paneller swaps in original characters who play the same parts. Books you adapt should be your own writing, or old enough to be out of copyright.

— The editors

Dear Paneller,Can I change the words or the art afterwards?

Yes. Click any bubble or caption to change its words, drag bubbles into place, redraw a single panel with a note, or redraw a whole page from its scenes.

— The editors

Coming next issue…

Your story!

Starring your characters. Written by you. Drawn by Paneller, in about a minute.

Make my comic, free!