Comic Book

A comic book from your photos

Bold inked outlines, dynamic energy and halftone shading, graphic-novel heroics.

Sample spread illustrated in the Comic Book style

The world of Comic Book

Halftones, bold panels, action lines. Comic book style hands your people capes, catchphrases and a city to save. It runs on humour and momentum, ideal for friends' lore, graduation sagas and dads who quote movies.

Best for: Friends, graduations, funny heroic family legends.

Who it suits

A story that already gets told as a story: the running joke, the disaster holiday, the year somebody changed job three times. Panels want incident, so it rewards a book with events in it rather than a mood.

Which photos work best

Expressive beats anything else. A photo of somebody mid-laugh or mid-argument is worth three composed portraits here, because the style draws reaction rather than appearance. Action shots that would be rejected as blurry elsewhere often work.

How it differs from Manga (B&W)

Manga runs on black and white and interior feeling; comic runs on colour and momentum. Roughly, comic is what happened and manga is how it felt. See Manga (B&W)

Questions about this style

Are there speech bubbles?

Yes, and the words in them come from your story. That is the part people underestimate: the dialogue is the bit friends quote back at each other afterwards.

Can the heroes be adults?

Most of the time they are. Graduations, leaving parties and fortieth birthdays are where this style is used most, not children's books.

Your photos, this style

Every Fableself book starts from your photos. Your people are redrawn faithfully, same faces, same hair, same spark, inside this style's world, across every page of an original story written for you. Every page is reviewed before it reaches you. You approve a full digital proof before any payment.