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
• 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 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.

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.

Generating a full page costs 25 credits. See generating pages.

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 25 credits, see regenerating images).

What you reuse across all of the above

These are defined per series and used throughout:

• Characters — 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 — settings and locations. Used as scene context.
• Assets — 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.

Updated on: 26/04/2026