Upload Rules

• Photos you took of real places: your kitchen, your office, a street, a landmark on a trip.

• Not a still from a film or show, a photo from a stock library, or someone else’s painting, render or illustration of a place.

• Billboards and shop signs that happen to be in your photo are fine.

• Objects you own or photographed: a bike, a trunk, a product you make.

• Logos and signs that are yours or your organization’s — a training team putting the company logo into onboarding comics is exactly what this is for. Someone else’s logo needs the trademark owner’s permission.

• A toy, figure or costume of someone else’s character is refused, the same as a photo of the character.

• What we draw. You write a name and what the character looks like — hair, face, build, clothes. We draw one neutral character sheet: a single full-body figure on a plain background, with no comic style yet. Your comic’s art style is applied when the character appears in a panel. Moods and expressions are left off the sheet, so each panel can set its own.

• What it costs. Every drawing costs 1 credit, redraws included. If a drawing fails, the credit comes back. Using the character in a comic costs nothing extra.

• Someone else’s character is refused. A name or description of a character from a film, show, game or book is refused before anything is drawn, and nothing is charged. Describe a real person only if you are that person or they agreed.

• A library of their own. AI-generated characters never use a photo upload slot. Every account can keep 1, the First Comic pack 2, and subscriptions and bigger packs more — see Pricing. A look of an AI-generated character counts in the same library.

• Versions. Each redraw is kept as a new version, up to 20 per character, and becomes the one in use. You can switch back to an older version or delete one, but not the last. All versions share one library slot. Switching changes the comics you make afterwards, not the ones already drawn.

• Saving a character from a comic. A character the AI cast in one of your comics can be saved to your library. We redraw them as a neutral sheet for 1 credit; the comic itself doesn’t change. The new sheet may keep a little of the comic’s style — a redraw can fix it.

In any library, whatever you call it:

• Copyrighted or trademarked characters — cartoon, anime, game, comic, mascot

• Frames or screenshots from films, TV, games and broadcasts

• Someone else’s character described in words, the same as a photo of them

• Magazine covers, movie and event posters

• Stock photos and pictures with a photographer’s watermark

• Sexual content, graphic violence, anything involving a minor in an unsafe way

• A person’s photo used to mock, harass or impersonate them

Every photo is checked twice before it’s saved, in a few seconds:

• If a check can’t answer, nothing is saved and you can try again in a minute — we don’t save first and look later.

• Passing the checks doesn’t make an upload allowed. You still promise, when you tick the box, that it’s yours to use.

• Every account can keep one character, one location and one prop, and uploads cost no credits. The First Comic pack adds a second character; a subscription, or a credit pack from the Creator Pack up, adds more — see Pricing.

• Accounts that haven’t bought anything can make 3 uploads a day. Uploads that fail on our side don’t count.

• See your face, your character or your work in a comic you didn’t agree to? Email support@comicory.com with the link. A person reads every report.

• When a complaint is credible we remove the photo and the characters and comics made from it.

• Uploading someone’s likeness or work deliberately without permission, or doing it again after a removal, closes the account, as in our Terms.