Novel to Comic Workflow: From TXT Manuscript to Illustrated Pages
A user-friendly walkthrough of how a manuscript becomes a page-by-page AI comic project.
The whole workflow in one line
Create one project, choose the look, import the manuscript as chapters, ask the assistant to draw the first chapters, read them, then continue in order.
1. Create one home for the whole story
A comic adaptation has many decisions: title, page shape, image quality, art style, the manuscript, the characters, the drawn pages. Keeping all of it inside one project means every page shares the same settings and the same cast.
1:1 square
Good for previews, thumbnails, and social posts.
16:9 widescreen
Good for cinematic scenes and presentation slides.
9:16 portrait
Good for webtoon-like reading and mobile-first sharing.
2. Choose the look before drawing anything
Style is not decoration. It changes how readers understand the story. A sweet romance feels warmer in the Korean webtoon style; a revenge story hits harder in the Western graphic novel style; a xianxia epic belongs in Chinese manhua. Pick one of the six presets, write your own, or extract the style from a comic page you like.
If you are unsure, pick the style that matches the emotion of the first chapter, draw that chapter, and adjust before going further.
3. Import the manuscript as plain text
For a long novel, use a clean UTF-8 .txt file. If your story is in Word, Google Docs or PDF, save or export it as plain text first, and remove front matter, notes and page numbers. Shorter pieces can simply be pasted.
Choose the split mode for the language — Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or everything else — and a chapter size. The text is split into numbered chapters of up to 3,000 characters. You can edit any chapter, insert new ones between existing ones, or write chapters by hand if the book is not finished.
4. Ask for a chapter, not a page
Open the comic assistant and ask for chapter 1. It reads the chapter, draws a reference sheet for each recurring character, lists the chapter's beats and draws four-panel pages — one page for a quiet scene, two or three for a busy one.
A strong chapter usually holds one setting and one turn of the story: a detective finds a clue in a rainy alley, a princess refuses a proposal, a traveller sees the forbidden city for the first time. If a chapter feels crowded when drawn, move its boundary.
5. Review a small sample before committing
Read the first chapters as a reader. Do not judge only the artwork. Is the story understandable? Do the characters look close to what you imagined? Does the page shape fit where the comic will be read?
If something is off, fix it while it is cheap: adjust the style, correct a character's sheet in the material library, or ask for a page to be redrawn with a specific change. Then ask for the next chapters.
Best practice summary
- ☐ Use one project for one story so all pages share the same settings.
- ☐ Pick the art style based on the emotion and genre of the story.
- ☐ Import long manuscripts as .txt; write chapters by hand for unfinished stories.
- ☐ Draw and read a few chapters before asking for many.
- ☐ Keep creating in story order so the comic is easier to read and improve.
From manuscript to pages
Import your manuscript and ask for chapter 1.
Turn your novel into a comic