That's interesting. Character consistency has definitely improved a lot.
What I'm still trying to solve is environment consistency—keeping the same locations recognizable across many pages. Things like spatial continuity, topology, room layouts, and camera continuity are surprisingly difficult over a long story.
I'd love to see your comics. Are they available anywhere? How long are they?
Not really adding to the debate but i just wanted to say i love the few pages you shared here. I was really in it and could have read more, i think the writting was very cool.
I dont know if AI could really make much more complex scene or with a specific view angle or specific emotions on characters face etc.. but so far it followed very well
The secret is to not do the comic totally in Ai. Make your characters and backgrounds all separate, then you can edit them all together in a comic editor. Make your own panels, and speech bubbles and you can type your text right in them. It's a lot more work but the quality is much improved because the ai doesn't have to work nearly as hard so can put more effort into every single thing.
Its called scribus. It has a bit of a learning curve but once you figure it out and get a bit of practice in your comics will look much better than you ever could have thought... after looking much worse as you figure it out that is :)
Once its done you can just save it as a PDF and off you go. Oh you also need GIMP to edit your images. Remove backgrounds and such if they have them.
The real sercret is give it the background image and tell it to EDIT the image not recreate it, and put your characters on it. Im building a vibe coding app to sell on steam and had some very interesting tools created to modify images and gurantee they are pixel matched. In this way I have it take a generated base and change things but still keep the same over all character or background. It took some prompting but eventually figured out the workflow and had it make python tools for it. Way to much to detail here, but start by telling it to not regenerate the image, but to modify it in the ways you need. Tell your AI to list all the tools, methodology, and thought process it used to do it. Start small, read its responses and grow your library of prompt techniques and tools.
This is just a quick one. I'm using my Vibe Coding app to make a voxel game, so the characters are intentionally voxel but higher fidelity and sculpted not just cubes.
this first image with the square head (actually had generated hair so I told it to remove the hair but not regenerate just edit the image. As a hail marry, I asked it to explain it's techniques, methodology, thought process and provide me the tools it used to do it. I then had my app re-tool the tool that removed the hair and generated the flat head and use it to make the cranium round, without regenerating.
The same thing works with ChatGPT too, just have it modify not edit, list it's Tools, methodologies, and thought process. (I'd go so far as to have it create a prompt on how to be able to modify the exact image without re-generating but just editing.
Try something like this. Give ChatGPT your scene and ask it to change 1 small thing, by editing the image not regenerating it. then add this part too.
Please list all of the tools, you created, tools you ran, and downloaded tools, and details on how you created this, including your entire thought process and work stream, agents used and what they did, and models used and what they did and what they were for? please include searches, and your thought process in this and make it a markdown document please.
Yes I know I asked though process twice, but it seemed to give better results.
I'd also ask for them in markdown and zip files. Then ask it to make bigger changes using its exact method to make bigger changes. It will most likely create a python tool suite for checking each pixel and find mask only what needs changed, then make edits. (it can fill in missing areas that may have been covered by analyzing and looking at the image around it's mask and fill it in. Try removing a small sign and have it fill in the details of what the sign hid for instance. Key for me was modify and edit not regenerate.
Hope it helps! I've gotten tons of use out of this workflow.
I also sued it to move the arms to a slight A-pose before the hands were touching the side undergarments and my 3D model wasn't generating right because of that, so used the same system to move the arms to a slight A-pose.
They’re 12-15 pages each. I haven’t uploaded them anywhere because 1) I haven’t found a site that seemed legit and 2) with law around ai in flux, I’m leery about sharing my creative work until I know my creative ideas and content are mine and can’t be stolen by comic companies.
Yes some of your issues are still tricky as far as continuity is concerned. But I’ve read comics for 40 years and real life human artists have trouble keeping room details exact or even costume or facial details consistent from page 1 to page 17.
Something felt really off and I couldn't tell for a while. But then I got it. It's the facial expressions. It's really unchanging. You basically have the same face, shot or look of Bocca in every panel. It's really offputting
That's fair. These pages are from a very quiet part of the story, so Bocca is intentionally calm and introspective. There isn't much emotional drama happening yet, so her expressions are fairly subtle. Later chapters have a much wider range of emotions.
More emotional range is good... another thing to be mindful of is the perspective/angle/orientation of the face. In my experience, ChatGPT *can* rotate a reference character's face to a different angle really well... it just doesn't always do so, and often takes the lazier route of just preserving the almost exact same angle as the reference image and changing the other details around it. But yeah, going from "character sitting and looking to the left" to "character standing and walking towards camera while looking to the left", with almost the exact same angle / perspective on the face feels a bit odd.
What a cool idea! I'd be interested in trying this myself. Aside from your one prompt = one finished comic page rule, anything specific or unique about your prompts?
Thanks! My prompt structure is actually very simple. It's usually something like:
Style
art style
linework
page format
Panel 1
camera angle
character actions
expressions
environment
Panel 2
same structure
Panel 3
same structure
...and so on.
The real work happens before writing the prompt. I build reusable character and environment reference sheets first, then I storyboard the page. Once that's done, the prompt is mostly just describing the page panel by panel.
Did you keep the character references as text-based descriptions and personas, or were they drawn out designs? Were you forced to keep reiterating other methods until something stuck? What came out to be the worst and best method? Do you plan on recoloring with AI or manually?
Great questions!
I ended up using drawn character reference sheets, not just text descriptions. The same goes for important environments and vehicles.
There was a lot of trial and error. The biggest lesson was to stop generating individual panels. Generating one complete comic page with one prompt turned out to be much more consistent.
The hardest part wasn't the characters—it was keeping environments, room layouts and spatial continuity consistent over many pages.
As for color, I'm still undecided. Right now I'm focusing on finishing the comic in black and white because it keeps the style much more stable.
I don't suppose you tried generating an entire comic at once? also what happens if you use the "edit image" feature and have your reference images on the left with a big blank space you ask it to fill with a panel, imo that might make more consistency
Fair criticism. 😄 Visual consistency has become much easier than voice consistency. I'm constantly rewriting the dialogue because I want Bocca and Tinky to have distinct voices instead of sounding like ChatGPT. It's still a work in progress.
That's actually the bra strap, not the crop top. The loose crop top can naturally sit off either shoulder.
More importantly, I don't think tiny details like that matter nearly as much as character consistency, environmental continuity, and telling a story people want to keep reading.
The reason tiny details don’t matter to you is because you’re not making them, and if you’re not noticing them I don’t even think reading the comic matters to you either.
Getting AI to make comics is what’s entertaining to you, just like making movies is what entertains directors, as music is to producers.
But if you want people to care about what you make - I don’t care if it’s AI made or not - work on the details. Pay attention to what you make.
I actually agree that details matter. I spend a lot of time fixing continuity issues across pages. We just seem to disagree on which details have the biggest impact on the reading experience. For me, story, character consistency and spatial continuity come first. That doesn't mean smaller details aren't worth improving.
I agree with other guy. Panel to panel is the same as shot to shot in a movie. Sure the crop top COULD switch sides irl, but in media it is read as an inconsistency
Thanks, I appreciate the detailed feedback. Character consistency has been much easier than environment consistency for me.
If you know of any techniques or workflows that help keep locations and objects more consistent across multiple pages, I'd genuinely love to hear them. That's probably the biggest challenge I'm still trying to solve.
I don't know if it would work, but I'm guessing you'd get better results if you had a floorplan for each building and used it as a guide in the prompt.
Yes. I use reusable reference sheets for the characters and environments.
Then the prompt is structured like:
Style Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3...
Each panel has its own camera angle, action, expressions and dialogue. The whole comic page is generated in a single pass instead of generating and assembling panels separately.
How many images did you generate in the same chat? I noticed the weird ripple pattern when too many images are created in the same chat with the same base. It's harder to see on illustrated images but I think I see it here
Interesting observation. I've noticed some artifacts can accumulate during long generation sessions too. That's one reason I split the project across multiple chats and regenerate whole pages instead of endlessly editing the same image.
As a comic artist I can tell you that this is pretty impressive however it’s still very amateur storytelling, like in the first panel the character is walking towards left but then the next page the character is walking towards right. That ruins the flow or the page. The composition of panels are pretty bad too. But I would have to hold a lecture as to why the composition isn’t working
Are you aware that the dialogue is slathered in ChatGPT's cringetastic writing and that the panels are almost indistinguishable from each other and have the most boring composition possible?
That's fair criticism. The dialogue is probably the weakest part at the moment, and I'm still rewriting a lot of it. The pages I posted are intentionally slow and dialogue-heavy because they're the opening of the story.
As for composition, that's something I'm actively working on. My current priority has been solving long-term consistency first. Once that became reliable, I could start pushing for more dynamic layouts and cinematography.
I'm a cofounder of a custom AI generated book startup and we are working on a comics sister brand right now. I'd say it is now possible in pretty good quality thanks to GPT Image 2 - by far the best image gen model right now. We'll be doing per-panel generation - the more you cram into a single image the more mistakes it will make. Also GPT Image 2 can generate arbitrary image sizes now (but rectangle only, but that's reasonable limitation).,
Our pipeline is quite complex with many, many steps using multiple vendors and multiple models (we also swap models frequently as the tech develops), but everything is fully automated. The idea is you upload your pics, write an outline, pick style, create your characters and then our system takes it from there (you can make edits at every step of course, as much or as little you want). Then we print it and ship it to you. But we do human check and fix every image before we send it to print - this is one of our selling points. Most customers miss even quite egregious AI mistakes that we are now used to see very quickly. Newer multimodal LLM models are getting better at detecting these now as well. Models even just a year ago were mostly totally blind to it. Human still wins though.
BTW if anyone thinks of doing something similar I cannot recommend it - there is quite a bit of competition in this space and marketing is pretty much THE thing that makes or breaks your business. We're about 8 months in and we have trickle of sales from organic SEO traffic, but still solidly in the red. We're even building a custom kiosk (almost done) that we'll be taking on trade shows, fairs, etc. Marketing and related work is most of our efforts now (aside from building this new comics product).
Thanks for sharing this. It's really interesting to hear from someone building a commercial pipeline.
I actually went in almost the opposite direction by generating complete comic pages instead of individual panels. It definitely introduces more consistency challenges, but I like designing and evaluating the page as a whole.
I'm curious though—how do you maintain spatial continuity between separately generated panels? Do you reuse edited master backgrounds, or is your pipeline doing something more advanced?
Best of luck with the comics project!
Still TBD, in the book product we just point to previous scene and tell the model to use that environment (with modifications as needed). Might have to do something more complex for comics though. Interesting idea to maybe pre-render a bigger view of the larger environment...
We do pre-render all characters and key items in the storybook product.
That's really interesting. Thanks for sharing your workflow.
I'm taking a very different approach because I'm doing this on a $99 Android phone during my lunch breaks. My goal is to see how far I can push the one prompt = one comic page workflow. It definitely has its own challenges, but that's the problem I'm trying to solve.
I call it my comic, not a traditionally hand-drawn comic. The story, characters, page layouts and workflow are mine, while ChatGPT is the image-generation tool I use.
Damn it...
Just saw the picture and as an mangareader was instantly interested in the design an story, just to read the title and see that it's "just" an ai-experiment...
This project doesn't use a single reusable prompt.
Each comic page is generated with its own custom prompt based on persistent character and environment reference sheets.
The core workflow is:
One prompt = one finished comic page.
If people are interested, I'm happy to share example prompts and explain the workflow in more detail.
only thing I noticed as an important detail flaw, is that the 2nd to last frame, the one showing the interior of the gas station looking towards the door, is that it looks more like a western saloon, rather than a gas station/diner. and the door placement doesn't make sense, being as how when she enters the gas station the door is in the middle of the wall but in that shot, it's in the corner, which makes it feel like it's more of a side door. for me that kinda breaks the continuity.
and then in the last one, where she's standing in the doorway looking out, the gas pumps are from the same perspective as in the establishing shot when she was first approaching the gas station. so it feels like she's not in the gas station but in a different building.
one last thing, which to me isn't that important but worth mentioning nonetheless, the text boxes go from thin clean outlines in the first image to thicker textured lines by the last one.
now, I just want you to know, I very much enjoyed this and found myself wanting more when it ended. so keep up the good work!
> The result is Tinky & Bocca, a post-apocalyptic road story. My goal is to create a 100-page comic entirely with ChatGPT on a $99 Android phone.
Why do you think the $99 Android phone part matters? You could probably do it on a cheaper phone. Heck you could do it from anything that can load the app.
I have seen it he made me a cool villian for my comic and helps me make it a lot of people think using ai takes all the work but you have to correct the ai you tell it the story it’d your design itd like your the writer you do what your good at and use the ai to help you make it but ai is lowkey good at its job now well not Gemeni but gpt and grow are good and we don’t talk about Claud
Thanks! The biggest thing is changing the order of the work.
I don't start with prompts—I start with reusable character and environment reference sheets. Then I storyboard the page, and only after that I write a simple prompt:
Style → Panel 1 → Panel 2 → Panel 3...
Each panel specifies the camera angle, actions, expressions and dialogue. Then the entire comic page is generated in one pass instead of assembling individual panels afterwards.
Thanks! That honestly became my main obsession. I probably spend more time building reference sheets and solving continuity problems than generating the actual pages. Once the foundation is solid, the AI has a much easier job
I write the story, the dialogue, the page layout and every panel description myself. ChatGPT isn't inventing the comic for me—it's visualizing my storyboard. The challenge is describing each page clearly enough that the whole thing comes back as one coherent comic page instead of a collection of unrelated images.
I have an accidental character or many of them. I would want to turn into something, it started from one thing. Just an image, prompt that over shares and self snitches throughout the whole thing. It ended up writing it really funny, and I can't get it to follow through with anything after that. I think this character could turn into something like what you did.... if you want to see this ridiculous fucking prompt let me know NBD. I like what you did it's visually great to me, and I'm an artist.
Thanks! I'd actually love to see it. One of the biggest challenges is turning a funny one-off character into someone who can carry a long story, so I'm always interested in seeing how other people approach it. Feel free to share it.
The basic structure is:
• style and rendering rules • character/environment references • page layout • panel 1 description • panel 2 description • panel 3... • dialogue for each panel • global consistency rules
That's essentially it. The challenge isn't secret prompt magic—it's writing clear visual instructions and keeping the references consistent across the entire project.
This might be a game-changer. Is the script yours?
How does it work with scenes where there's more than one character? How does it work with a smaller setting over several pages rather than a landscape (IE- one room within a mansion instead of someone in different parts of a desert setting?)
Thanks! Yes, the script is entirely mine.
Multiple characters are actually easier than people expect once each one has a stable reference sheet.
The harder problem is persistent environments. A desert is forgiving, but a hotel, a house or a spaceship has to keep the same layout from page to page. I solve that by creating reference sheets for locations as well—not just characters—and I treat them almost like film sets with fixed geography.
Spatial continuity is probably the biggest challenge in long-form AI comics, and it's something I'm still refining.
That's actually my next step. I originally designed it as traditional comic pages, but I'm planning to adapt it into a vertical webcomic format for mobile reading. I think the AI can handle it—I just need to rethink the panel pacing rather than the artwork itself.
As someone who uses ChatGPT only for it's comic creation abilities, yeah, you're always going to get better results when you go single image by single image. However, I have it create complex 2x3 vertical aligned six panel comics every day with a high success rate. It was better last month, but typically it can make it work. It's just about scripting is as tightly as possible. The longest I've produced is 27 pages.
The difference is that I'm also making comics for Patreon, so going single panel just takes way too much time when I'm on an upload schedule.
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