The dashboard tour

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 main area is The Shelf, with two tabs:

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.

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 — start a Story Video.

On a phone these live under a compact + New menu on the Shelf toolbar.

Opening a comic takes you into the workspace. The old top tabs (Issue / Characters / Assets) are gone — the layout is now:

A centred Script ⇄ Comic toggle switches the main area between the script (a flowing document of every page and panel) and the comic (the flipbook preview). Blank comics open on Script; comics with pages open on Comic.
A left rail with three panes: Tools, Cast (renamed from Characters), and Assets. Tools lists every action — Generate All Pages, Edit Script, Regenerate Cover, Translate, Export, Publish, Turn into Video, and more — with a search box so you can type to find an action by what it does (searching "upscale" or "high resolution" surfaces Export, where print-quality upscaling lives). Cast and Assets list your reusable characters and props for the series.
Sidekick, ComicInk's in-editor AI collaborator, is a persistent column on the right at desktop widths. See Sidekick, your AI collaborator.
On screens narrower than 900px, the left rail and Sidekick become slide-in overlays instead of fixed columns, so the comic or script still gets the full width.

Un-rendered pages show a placeholder with Generate Page and Edit Page Script (the latter jumps to the Script view, scrolled to that page).

See generating pages for the full editing flow.

Reusable across a series:

Characters — people in your story, shown under Cast in the editor. The AI keeps them looking the same across pages.
Worlds — settings and locations.
Assets — props, vehicles, key objects.

The chat bubble in the bottom-right corner is live support. Send us a message any time — we reply by email when we're not online.

Updated on: 02/08/2026

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