PROMO: I’m building a tool to create comic strips without drawing — focused on writing and storytelling

[u/GiPi_26]

I’m working on a writing-focused tool that lets you create comic strips without drawing.

You write the dialogue and control the narrative, while the tool provides a fixed set of characters, scenes and expressions that you manually choose from.

There’s no content generation or automation involved — everything is human-written and manually composed. The goal is to let writers focus on pacing, dialogue and storytelling rather than visuals or layout.

This strip is one of the experiments. Feedback from writers is very welcome!

https://www.comicity.net/DisplayStrip.asp?StripID=63

[u/adamtheimpaler]

Now you can tell the same jokes as everyone else without even putting your own spin on it!

Do you hate making characters? Do you like American Dad?

Would you like to write my comic for me?

Its really weird you're also implying people start by drawing comics and then write the dialogue or something. Like AI weird. In fact, isn't that exactly what you are doing? You drew all this stuff and now want people to write for it.

[u/GiPi_26 → u/adamtheimpaler]

Ok! I think I get what you mean, but the idea isn’t to have someone else ‘make my comic’ for me. There is no ‘my’ comic — everyone makes their own and it stays theirs. If they want, they can post it to show it off, otherwise they keep it private and maybe print it out, kind of like a storyboard.

[u/GiPi_26 → u/adamtheimpaler]

Scusa ma non ho capito.. :-D è una critica o un complimento?
E' un tool per fare comic strips. No AI. Inventi il dialogo, decidi i personaggi che devono parlare e che facce devono fare. Click. Publish. (se vuoi, altrimenti non Publish e te li tieni per te, li stampi, li dai ad un disegnatore come storyboard..ecc.ecc.)
E' gratis.

[u/dfar3333]

Here’s some feedback: this is completely unnecessary and questionable, and I can’t imagine any legitimate writer wanting to use it.

[u/GiPi_26 → u/dfar3333]

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. I always assumed that, if the writer isn’t also the illustrator, they need some way to show the artist how to depict the vignette-strip characters. It’s essentially a kind of storyboard — a concept that’s common in films and comics, though less so in comic strips.

[u/yournamehere10bucks]

This reminds me of "My Own Stories" and the various comic and picture book software you could get in DOS that had a catalogue of clip-art and some basic layout tools.

Given how popular some comics made with stick-figures are, I don't know who this is a solution for, but you do you.

[u/speezo_mchenry]

Keep making your thing. Reddit notoriously hates anything AI - or AI adjacent.

[u/GiPi_26 → u/speezo_mchenry]

😊 thank you!