Stories with Pictures

Comics, manga and graphic novels

What's new this week, what to read next, and comics you can make.

Stories With Pictures is a magazine for comics readers: the week’s releases and adaptations, guides to what to read next, and tools to make your own strip. Original art only; we never reproduce pages.

This weekNew fascinating storiesReleases, adaptations and one story to read todayReadGuides and picksWhere to start, how comics work, what is worth itMakeMake a comicPanel Lab, The Literal Artist and the meme quiz

New on the shelf

Comics craft

How to Make a Comic: A Step-by-Step Guide

How to make a comic from scratch: build a story and script, plan each page with thumbnails, then draw, letter and set up pages at the right size.

4 min read
Comics craft

Storyboarding a Heist Panel by Panel

Plan a heist or crime story page by page: build the crew, script the robbery, then use thumbnails, panel size and gutters to control pace.

5 min read
Manga

Netflix Manga Adaptations: Which Stay Faithful to the Page?

Which Netflix manga adaptations stay closest to their source? We look at One Piece, Alice in Borderland, Fullmetal Alchemist and what reviewers say.

4 min read
Screen adaptations

Why Watchmen Split Critics: Lessons for Comic Adaptations

Watchmen's film looked faithful yet divided critics and was slow to pay off. What one case study reveals about why comic book films work or fail.

4 min read

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Make and play

Comics you can make and play

Original art, no sign-up. Download what you make.

Make

Panel Lab

Pick a scene and a hero, write four lines (or let the AI write them) and download your own four-panel strip.

Open Panel LabMake

The Literal Artist

Commission a comic panel from an artist who takes every request literally, and download the strip.

Commission a panelQuiz

Which meme are you?

Eight absurd questions, zero science. Find your meme, caption it and download it.

Find my memeComics journey

The Daily Panel

Three issues, a panel debate, craft quizzes and a four-panel strip drawn from your answers.

Start readingTrue crime

Three Tonnes of Gold

The true story of the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery in seven illustrated chapters: play it as a case file or read it as a story.

Open the caseStories

Three Tonnes of Gold: the Stories

The same true story told like stories on your phone: nine short chapters of real photos, clips and quick polls.

Watch the storiesLibrary

The Free Comics Shelf

Where to read, borrow and make comics for free, and what kind of free each one really is.

Browse the shelf

About Stories With Pictures

What we don't do

No scans

We never reproduce pages or panels. Read the real thing through official, licensed sources.

No spoilers by surprise

Spoilers are always labelled, so you choose what you see.

Original illustrations

Every illustration in our comics and quizzes is drawn for us, not taken from a published work. Article photos are licensed stock images.

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