Comicory
Bande Dessinée Comic Generator
Real places, adult faces, a clean line.
An AI bande dessinée generator tuned to the European album: even-weight ink in the ligne claire manner, flat matte color with soft natural shadow, semi-realistic proportions, and architecture you could walk into — with the same characters recognisable from the first page to the last.
- Same cast in every panel
How it works
What each step costs.
- 1
Write your story
A paragraph or a whole chapter. Pick a style and a length.
Free - 2
Review the script
The AI splits it into panels with dialogue. Change anything before a single image is drawn.
4 credits - 3
Render the comic
Each character, scene and panel is drawn once, then kept on-model.
1 credit each
Free vs paid
What changes when you pay.
Made with Comicory · comicory.comFree
- 10 credits, once, no card
- Downloads carry a small Comicory badge
- 10 of 20 art styles
Paid
- Clean downloads with any pack or plan
- All 20 art styles with a subscription
- Upload your own characters (subscriptions, and packs from $19.99)
A bande dessinée generator is not a comic book generator with the capes removed.
The Franco-Belgian tradition — Tintin, Corto Maltese, the modern BD shelf — draws grown-up faces without exaggeration, keeps line weight even instead of dramatic, colors in flat matte planes, and spends its detail on places: a harbour at dawn, a Paris arrivals hall, a kitchen with the right chairs.
Comicory's Graphic Novel style is built for exactly that register, for stories that would look wrong drawn as superhero action or as manga.
Why Choose the Graphic Novel Style
Most AI comic styles are loud. This one is quiet on purpose: it reads like a printed album page, which is what literary, documentary and slice-of-life stories need to be taken seriously.
Literary & Slice-of-Life Stories
A father meeting his son at the airport, a reunion on a harbour wall, a long conversation over coffee. Natural expressions and restrained color let the writing carry the scene.
Travel, Reportage & Magazines
Believable streets, interiors and coastlines, drawn in the register European magazines and travel publishers already use. Period details stay period-correct when the story names an era.
Serialized Episodes
Continue Story keeps the cast and the recurring locations from one episode to the next, so a magazine series or a webcomic holds together across chapters.
Bande Dessinée vs. Comic Book vs. Cinematic
Comic Book is cel-shaded with bold outlines and vivid color — energetic, American, built for action. Cinematic is a color-graded film still, closer to a photograph than a drawing.
The Graphic Novel style sits between them: unmistakably drawn, with an even ink line and flat matte planes, but with adult proportions, natural faces and real places. Pick it when a brief says semi-realistic, European, bande dessinée, or simply no exaggerated cartoon style.
Questions
About this generator.
No — Graphic Novel is one of the paid styles, alongside noir, ink wash, watercolor, hand-drawn, pixel art, shonen, gekiga, cinematic and realistic. Any subscription unlocks it, together with watermark-free exports and priority generation.
The art style comes from the style picker, not from the text of the story. If your story carries a style brief — "semi-realistic", "European graphic novel", "no exaggerated cartoon" — the script preview points it out and offers to switch to the closest style with one click, free.
Yes. Paste a scripted storyboard — CASE numbers, speaker lines, cartouches — and the generator keeps your lines word for word, in your language, and draws the action and camera from your scene notes. It does not invent extra speech for your characters.
Each named character gets a reference sheet first, and every panel is drawn from it. Continue Story carries the sheets and the recurring locations into the next episode, so a series keeps the same faces and the same streets.
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Ready when you are.
Start with a paragraph.
Finish with a comic.
Sign up free and get 10 one-time credits — the script plus a 4-panel comic with 1 character and 1 location. No card.