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One clear photo per person. Characters are built from those faces — the step a commissioned artist would spend a week on.
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A custom comic book normally means commissioning an artist: hundreds of dollars and weeks of waiting. Here you upload the photos, see the first pages in minutes, and order it printed from $9.99.
HOW IT WORKS
The commission process, without the commission.
One clear photo per person. Characters are built from those faces — the step a commissioned artist would spend a week on.
Compare art styles on your own characters before committing, instead of choosing an illustrator from their portfolio and hoping.
The brief you would have written for an artist, except the script comes back in minutes and you can change it.
Edit any panel or line, then download the PDF or order the printed book from $9.99 with free worldwide shipping.
WHY MYCOMICS
Commissioning is a good process with three expensive weaknesses. This removes all three.
The first pages exist within minutes. No deposit against a book you have not seen.
Rewrite a line or regenerate a panel as often as you want, instead of negotiating a third round.
Readable today, printed in 7–10 days. Commissioned comics routinely take four to eight weeks.
Custom comic commissions start in the hundreds. The printed book here starts at $9.99 with free shipping.
You keep the rights to what you create, and the PDF is yours to reprint whenever you want.
A personalized comic book is a comic built around real people and a real story. There are two ways to get one. You can commission an illustrator — typically $200 to $500 and four to eight weeks, with one or two rounds of revision — or you can make it yourself on myComics.ai: upload one photo per person, choose from twenty-plus art styles, describe the story, and read the first pages within minutes. Editing is unlimited and free, and the printed book starts at $9.99 with free worldwide shipping.
Marketplace listings for a custom comic book usually quote per page, and the page count is where the price escapes. A ten-page book at commission rates lands in the low hundreds; anything approaching a real twenty-page story moves past that quickly. The cost is not unreasonable — you are paying for an illustrator's working week — but it does mean the decision has to be made up front, from a portfolio, before a single panel of your book exists. That is the part worth questioning, not the rate.
An illustrator brings judgement. They will notice that your story has no ending, that two characters look too similar, that the joke needs a page of setup — and fix it without being asked. Generation does not do that: it does what you describe. If you want someone to take the brief away and return with something better than you imagined, commission. If you have the story clearly in your head and want control over how it looks, doing it yourself is faster, cheaper, and closer to what you pictured.
Two things. One clear front-facing photo per person — good light, no sunglasses, face unobstructed — because every panel is built from it. And three or four specific moments rather than a whole timeline: the day you met, the trip that went wrong, the thing only the two of you find funny. Specific beats produce better books than summaries, whether an illustrator or a model is drawing them. Everything else can be decided as you go, since nothing is locked until you order the print.
FAQ
Straight answers about making a custom comic book yourself.
A comic built around real people and a real story: the characters are based on photos of actual people, and the plot is something that happened to them or something you invent for them.
Commissioning an illustrator typically runs $200–$500 depending on page count. On myComics.ai you start free with 30 credits and the printed book starts at $9.99 with free worldwide shipping.
The comic is readable online within minutes. Printing takes 7–10 days plus delivery. A commissioned comic usually takes four to eight weeks.
One clear front-facing photo per person. Up to six characters can appear in the same book.
Yes, as many as you want and at no extra cost. Rewrite dialogue, regenerate a panel, swap a scene — there is no revision limit to negotiate.
You keep the rights to what you create under the product terms, and the PDF is yours to keep and reprint.
It is faster, cheaper and fully revisable. An illustrator brings judgement a generator does not — they will improve a story you have not thought all the way through. If your story is clear and you want control, doing it yourself wins.
From 20 pages, with a real beginning, middle and ending rather than a set of illustrations.
Yes. 30 credits with no credit card required, so you build the characters and read pages before spending anything.