Manga page: a courier on a rainy rooftop loses a letter to the wind, leaps the gap and lands in a rooftop garden, lettered with speech balloons, a shout burst and sound effects

Your agent turns a short script into finished manga pages. It locks each character on a model sheet, lays out the page with classic, slanted, bleed or four-panel templates, draws every panel from that sheet with PopNow (using PopNow's own pose and camera-angle tools for action beats and reverse shots), then letters speech, thought, shout and caption balloons and sound effects in real fonts, left to right or in right-to-left manga order. You get print pages with bleed, a PDF and a web reader, with every word still editable.

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Images
Works with
+20
Needs
Python 3 · Chrome

The skill is free. AI images, video and sound are quoted for your approval before generation. API-key calls use your separate API balance in USD; generation through ChatGPT or Claude connected via OAuth/MCP uses your website credits.

v1.0.0 · Updated Oct 23, 2026 · 116 KB · Use it for personal and client work; please don't resell or share the package.

What you get

  1. Print-ready manga pages at 300 dpi with bleed (B5, A5, US comic) or web size

  2. A locked character sheet used as the reference for every panel

  3. Balloons, tails and sound effects lettered in real comic fonts, never AI-drawn text

  4. A PDF of all pages and a scroll or right-to-left page-flip web reader

  5. Rough thumbnail pages to approve before any panel is generated

Good for

  • Original one-shots, webcomic chapters and four-panel gag strips
  • Keeping the same character consistent across many panels
  • Learning manga panelling with real layouts and printable blank pages

Not for

  • Fan comics of existing series or copying a named artist's style
  • Full-colour painted comics; the look is tuned for black-and-white manga
  • Vertical Japanese lettering (horizontal only)

How to use it

You say

  • Use the PopNow skill "Manga Panel Maker" (manga-panel-maker) for this: Here's my one-page script about a courier who loses a letter to the wind on a rainy rooftop. Make it a manga page, read left to right, B5 for print.

Then try

  • Add a four-panel gag strip where her drone shakes itself dry on her.

  • Give me the same pages in right-to-left order for my zine.

What to have ready

  • A script or outline: beats, who speaks, what they say
  • Your characters described in words, or your own drawings of them
  • Chrome, Python 3 and FFmpeg on your computer
  • A PopNow API key for the drawn panels

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Questions

How do the characters stay the same in every panel?

A character sheet (front, three-quarter, side, back and four expressions) is made first and approved, and every panel is drawn from it as a reference with the same style line. Action poses use PopNow's pose changer and new viewpoints use its camera-angle changer, so the character is re-posed rather than redrawn from scratch.

What is manga panelling and which layouts are included?

Manga panelling is how a page is split into panels to set the pace: big panels for big moments, small ones for timing. The skill includes classic grids of four to seven panels, a slanted action page, a bleed reveal page, a splash page and a four-panel strip, each mirrored automatically for right-to-left reading.

Can I get blank manga panels to draw on?

Yes. One command prints empty manga panels to draw on by hand, in any of the layouts, with correct margins and bleed for B5, A5, US comic or web pages, as a PDF or PNG.

Why is the text not part of the generated art?

Image models misspell words and you cannot edit them afterwards. Here the art is drawn without any text and every balloon and sound effect is set in real fonts, so spelling is exact, translations are easy and a lettering report flags balloons that overlap or read out of order.

What does a page cost?

A five-panel page and a four-panel strip take about ten images including the character sheet; layout, lettering, PDF and reader are made on your computer for free. PopNow quotes the exact price before anything is generated.