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# Series, Issues, Pages, Panels — what each means

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](https://help.comicink.ai/en/article/writing-your-story-19f9gcw/#setting-the-era-and-culture-optional)** — era and cultural context (e.g. *"Late Victorian London, 1880s"*) that drives period-appropriate AI image generation
- Art style (one of [12 styles](https://help.comicink.ai/en/article/choosing-an-art-style-2ctuxj/))
- Default language
- Comic size ([standard / manga / graphic novel / webcomic](https://help.comicink.ai/en/article/choosing-a-comic-size-y5agqi/))

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 into the next.

## Merging and moving issues

Two tools reorganize issues after you've made them:

- **Merge** — on the series overview, select two or more issues and choose **Merge** to combine them into a single new issue, with their pages copied in order. Useful when you split a story into too many small issues.
- **Copy to series** — an issue's **⋯** menu has **Copy to series**, which places a copy of that issue (with its pages) into another series. This is how you move an issue from one series to another.

Both run in the background, so the affected issue shows a brief "copying" state until it finishes.

## Pages

A **page** is a single page of the comic — what the reader flips to. Each page is a generated image with a layout of one or more panels. An issue can have between **4 and 36 pages**.

Generating a full page costs **50 credits**. See [generating pages](https://help.comicink.ai/en/article/generating-pages-tebnpg/).

## Panels

A **panel** is one cell within a page — the individual frames that, taken together, tell the page's story. Each panel has its own dialogue, narration, character references, and art prompt.

Most pages have 1–6 panels depending on the story's pacing. You can edit any panel individually, and you can regenerate just one panel without redoing the whole page (also 50 credits, see [regenerating images](https://help.comicink.ai/en/article/regenerating-images-when-something-looks-wrong-eytkm/)).

## What you reuse across all of the above

These are defined per series and used throughout:

- [**Characters**](https://help.comicink.ai/en/article/defining-characters-1913leo/) — people in your story. Define each once with a description and an avatar; the AI keeps them visually consistent across every panel that includes them.
- [**Worlds**](https://help.comicink.ai/en/article/worlds-and-settings-13ikkrw/) — settings and locations. Used as scene context.
- [**Assets**](https://help.comicink.ai/en/article/reusable-assets-1l4rmko/) — props, vehicles, signature objects. Reused across panels for consistency.

## Putting it together

A typical workflow:

1. Create a **series** with your art style and language.
2. Create **characters** and a **world**.
3. Create your first **issue** with a synopsis.
4. The AI breaks the synopsis into **pages**, each with a panel layout.
5. Generate the **pages**. The AI uses your character references to keep characters consistent.
6. Edit dialogue, regenerate panels you don't like, finalize the cover.
7. Publish.