A small, dependency-free skill your coding agent can install once. It hands your idea to Comic AI, which writes the panels, picks the art style and draws every frame — then gives you a link to the finished comic.
What the skill does
- You tell your agent an idea — one line or a whole story.
- The agent runs one Python script. No packages, no API key, no signup.
- Comic AI expands the idea, breaks it into panels and draws them.
- You get a public link to the comic, plus the panel images on disk.
Your idea is sent through untouched. All the writing and art direction happens on our servers, so the skill stays tiny and always uses the current recipe.
Install it in one line
Paste this into your terminal — or just ask your agent to run it.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && curl -fsSL https://comicstyles.com/skills/make-a-comic.tar.gz | tar -xz -C ~/.claude/skills
That unpacks three files into a make-a-comic folder: the skill description, the script, and a README. Start a fresh agent session afterwards so it picks the skill up.
For your runtime
Claude Code & Claude agent skills
Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ for you, or .claude/skills/<name>/ inside a project. Use the command above, then ask for a comic in a new session — the skill announces itself when you say things like “turn this into a comic strip”.
OpenClaw
Same three files, different folder: unpack into ~/.openclaw/skills (or whichever skills directory your config points at) and restart the agent so it re-scans.
mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && curl -fsSL https://comicstyles.com/skills/make-a-comic.tar.gz | tar -xz -C ~/.openclaw/skills
Any other agent, MCP server or script
Nothing in the script is Claude-specific. Give the model the skill file as context and let it shell out, wrap the script as an MCP tool, or run it from cron. It prints the comic URL on standard output and progress on standard error.
python3 make_comic.py --idea "a raccoon opens a noodle shop on Mars" --panels 4 --out ./comic
Or grab the files directly
Everything is plain text. Read it before you run it — we would.
The honest part
⏳ A comic takes 2 to 4 minutes. Expanding the story is quick; breaking it into panels is the slow step, and our proxy sometimes cuts that connection — the script expects it and retries. Long silences are normal.
🎟️ Without an account you get one free comic per visitor. After that the script needs a session token from that first comic, or an invite.
👀 Comics made this way are public and show up in the gallery. Every image is AI-generated and carries a machine-readable marker saying so.