Meet the Comic Assistant That Reads Your Novel and Draws It
Novel to Comic is now driven by a conversation. One assistant lives with your project, remembers your cast and art direction, and draws the chapters you ask for.
What changed
Novel to Comic used to be a form you filled in for each page. It is now a conversation you have about your book.
One assistant per project, for the life of the project
Open a project and you will find a comic assistant attached to it. It is not a fresh chatbot each visit. It is the same conversation every time, and it keeps everything you have agreed on: the art direction, the characters it has drawn, and which chapters are done.
That means you can draw three chapters today, close the tab, come back next month and say "keep going from chapter 4" — and it still knows what your hero looks like and how the pages have been framed so far.
What you can ask for
There is no fixed sequence of steps to follow. You say what you want in your own words. These all work:
Draw the comic for chapter 3.
Draw chapters 4 through 12.
Redraw chapter 3, make it darker and rainier.
Who do we have in the cast so far?
How far along is this project?
How many credits do I have left, and what would ten chapters cost?
The buttons in the chapter list are shortcuts for the same thing. Pressing "Create comic" on a chapter writes the request into the message box for you — it does not send it. Nothing is generated until you press Send.
How your characters stay the same person
The first time a recurring character matters, the assistant draws them once as a reference sheet: a large head study and a neutral full-body pose, in plain clothing. That sheet is then attached to every page they appear in, which is what keeps the same face coming back chapter after chapter.
The sheet governs identity only. Clothing, age, expression, pose, camera angle, and setting all come from the scene itself. So a character changing into armour, or a chapter set ten years later, does not need a new sheet — the panel text handles it.
A new version of a character is drawn only when the story changes their appearance permanently: a timeskip, a lasting scar, a transformation. Older versions are never deleted, so if you go back and redraw an early chapter, it still resolves to how that character looked back then.
Passers-by, shopkeepers, and nameless crowds do not get a sheet at all. They are described in the panel text, which keeps your library small and your credits for the characters who actually recur.
It asks before anything you cannot undo
Deleting pages, deleting a character sheet, changing the project art style, or spending a large amount in one go — the assistant asks you for a plain yes first, and waits.
It does not ask permission for ordinary work. If you asked for chapter 5, it draws chapter 5. Redrawing is confirmed once, and then the whole redraw runs without stopping to check again.
You can interrupt a run at any point with Stop in the header, and pick it back up with Continue at the foot of the transcript. Pages already drawn stay drawn.
You can watch it work
The conversation is not a black box. Each step shows what the assistant is doing — reading a chapter, looking up the cast, drawing a character sheet, generating a page — with a live status and how long it took. Character sheets appear inline as they are drawn.
If something fails, it reads the error, retries once when that makes sense, and then tells you plainly what it tried and what came back. It will not report work it did not do.
What it costs
Images are charged the same way they always were: 10 credits per page at normal quality, 40 at high quality, and character reference sheets at the same rate. Failed images are refunded automatically.
The conversation itself is billed separately, on the text the assistant writes back to you. It is a small fraction of what the pages cost — a normal chapter request is a few credits. Your billing page shows both, so you can always see where the credits went.
Before a large batch, the assistant prices it for you. You can also just ask what your balance is and how far it would go.
Start with one chapter
Upload your novel, set an art style, and ask for chapter one. It is the cheapest way to see what your book looks like as a comic, and everything after that is the same conversation.
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