Question 1

Content policy and what we can't generate

Accepted Answer

ComicInk runs content moderation on every prompt — synopsis, character description, panel description, story input — and on every image you upload. Some content is automatically rejected before any compute runs. Some is your responsibility as the creator.

What's blocked automatically

The platform's safety system blocks content in two layers:

A multilingual term filter that catches unambiguous sexual or harmful terms across every language ComicInk supports.
An AI safety classifier that judges the intent of what you write in any language — catching nuanced or euphemistic sexual and harmful content the term filter misses, including content phrased indirectly or in a language other than English.

When a prompt is blocked, you'll see an error and no credits are deducted — the rejection happens before any image generation.

Specifically rejected

Sexual content (graphic sexual descriptions, nudity in sexual contexts).
Sexual content involving minors — zero tolerance, in any framing.
Graphic violence — extreme gore, torture, mutilation in detail.
Hate speech — content targeting groups by race, religion, gender, sexuality, etc.
Self-harm or suicide content in promotional or instructive framing.
Real public figures in defamatory or sexual contexts.

What's allowed

Mature themes — implied violence, action, conflict, drama. Comics about war, crime, abuse-survival, mental illness — all fine when handled non-grap

Question 2

Series, Issues, Pages, Panels — what each means

Accepted Answer

ComicInk uses a four-level content hierarchy that mirrors how real comic books are organized.

Series

A series is a collection of issues that share a world, characters, and art style — like Spider-Man (1963) or Saga. When you create a series, you set:

Title and description
Genre and theme
Optional Setting — era and cultural context (e.g. "Late Victorian London, 1880s") that drives period-appropriate AI image generation
Art style (one of 12 styles)
Default language
Comic size (standard / manga / graphic novel / webcomic)

Each issue you create inside a series inherits these defaults but can override them.

Issues

An issue is a single self-contained story — like issue #1, issue #2, etc. Each issue has its own pages, characters, and synopsis. Issues also have an optional Setting field that overrides the series-level Setting for that one issue (useful for time-travel arcs or anthology series). Issues can also exist on their own without a parent series ("standalone issues" — useful for one-shots).

Issues are where most of the work happens: writing the story, designing characters, generating pages, picking a cover.

You can also link issues into a story arc — a multi-issue narrative across two or more issues. Story arcs let the AI carry context (who's who, what just happened) from one issue

Question 3

Converting a book PDF into a comic series

Accepted Answer

If you have a novel or short story in PDF form, you can hand it to ComicInk and have it lay out a complete multi-issue comic series for you. The conversion does two things: it analyzes the whole book to set up the series structure (characters, issue split, per-issue previews), AND it splits the actual book pages into chunks so each issue's later script generation faithfully adapts that issue's pages — preserving original dialogue, settings, and key story beats — instead of inventing a new story from a short summary.

You still click Generate Script issue-by-issue afterwards, and you still need to attest that you own the rights to the book before converting.

How it works

From your dashboard, click Convert Book.
Choose a PDF (up to 50 MB).
ComicInk reads the PDF and shows you a preview: book length, estimated cost in credits, and a suggested issue split (for example, 5 issues × 14 pages each).
Adjust the split if you want — anywhere from 1 issue × 5 pages all the way up to 12 issues × 30 pages each.
Pick the art style for the series. The series language is auto-detected from the book's prose (a French novel produces a French comic by default; a Spanish novel produces a Spanish comic, etc.) — you can override it later in the series settings if you'd rather have the comic in a different language.
Confirm the copyright attestation (you wrote it, you own the rights, or it's in the public domain).
Click Convert to confirm. Credits are charged

Question 4

Free and paid character slots

Accepted Answer

ComicInk gives every issue 5 free character slots. Characters added beyond that cost 10 credits each.

How it works

When you add a character to an issue:

1st through 5th character: free to add and free to define. Each character image (and each avatar) is then free for its first 5 generations — the initial image plus 4 regenerations — and 10 credits per regeneration after that. See regenerating images.
6th character and beyond: costs 10 credits. The character is flagged as a "paid slot" and counts toward this issue's character roster.
Regenerating the avatar of a paid-slot character: costs 10 credits — the same as any action on a paid-slot character (avatars inherit the slot flag).
Regenerating pages that include a paid-slot character: costs the normal page rate (50 credits) — same as any page.

Why a limit?

Each character adds a visual reference that gets passed to the AI when generating a page that includes them. More characters mean more reference images for the AI to balance, which slows generation and increases compute cost. The 5-character free quota covers most stories; the 10-credit price for the 6th+ keeps the platform sustainable for long-roster issues.

Sharing characters across issues in the same series

Characters defined in a series are available to all its issues. The free-slot count applies per issue, not per series — so if your protagonist appears in issues 1, 2, and 3, they co

Question 5

The dashboard tour

Accepted Answer

When you log in to comicink.ai, you land on the dashboard. Here's what's where.

The top bar

A single bar runs across the top of every dashboard page:

ComicInk logo (left) — click it any time to return to the dashboard home.
My Stores — your creator storefront, with a count of how many are live. (On a phone this moves into the avatar menu to save space.)
Credits remaining — your current credit balance. Click it to buy more.
Avatar menu (right) — your profile, plus Refer a Friend, Help, Billing, Settings, Print Orders, language, and Sign out.

The Shelf — your Comics and Videos

The main area is The Shelf, with two tabs:

Comics — everything you've made as a comic.
Videos — your Story Videos (if video is enabled for your account).

Under the tabs you'll find:

Filter chips — All, Drafts, Live, Singles, Series, Recent. Singles are standalone one-off comics; Series are multi-issue. Filter the shelf to just what you want.
Search — type to find a comic by title (⌘K / Ctrl-K focuses it).
Grid / list toggle and Select (for bulk actions).

Each comic shows as a cover tile — click one to open it.

Creating something new

From the Shelf header:

New Comic — start a comic. You'll pick a title, genre, art style, and language. See series and issues.
New Video

Question 6

Web vs iOS app

Accepted Answer

ComicInk has two surfaces that share the same account and the same content:

Sign in on either with the same credentials and you'll see the same series, issues, characters, and credit balance.

Feature parity

Both platforms support:

Creating series, issues, pages, and panels
Generating images (characters, pages, covers, panels)
Editing dialogue and narration
Defining and reusing characters, worlds, and assets
Reading and sharing comics
Buying credits
The full set of 12 art styles, 4 comic sizes, and 10 languages

Where they differ

| Feature | Web | iOS | |---|---|---| | Sign in with Google | ✅ | ✅ | | Sign in with Apple | ❌ | ✅ | | Email/password sign-up | ✅ | ✅ | | Buying credits | Stripe checkout | Apple In-App Purchase | | Push notifications | ❌ | ✅ | | Live chat support | Crisp chat bubble | In-app inbox (migrating to live chat) | | Story Videos (create & export) | ✅ | No in-app access — published links open in any browser | | Creator storefront management | ✅ | View-only for now |

Pricing is identical across web and iOS for the same credit pack — the Lite, Starter, Creator, and Video packs cost the same on both.

Buying credits — what to know

Because Apple takes a 30% cut of in-app purchases, all platforms charge you the same retail price. The platform-side margin differenc

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