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Panel Lab

Pick a scene and a hero, write four lines, and get a finished comic strip. Stuck for ideas? Tap Surprise me, or let the AI write it.

Scene

Hero

Your four panels

Leave a line empty for a silent panel. Silence is a classic comics move.

About Panel Lab

Panel Lab is a small tool for making your own four-panel comic strip. You pick a scene and a hero, write one line for each of the four panels, and the page draws the strip for you with original artwork. Stuck for ideas? Surprise me fills in a ready-made story, and Write with AI asks an AI helper for four lines based on the scene, the hero and the moods you picked. You can edit any line, leave a panel empty for a silent beat, and download the finished strip as an image.

Nothing you write is saved on our side, so feel free to experiment, clear the lines and start again as often as you like.

Why four panels?

The four-panel strip is one of the oldest and most useful formats in comics. Four panels give a story a setup, a development, a turn and a punchline, and the same shape runs from newspaper strips to Japanese yonkoma. Working inside four panels is the quickest way to learn timing: what to show, what to leave out, and where the joke should land. Our guides to sequencing a four-panel comic and to punchlines in the last panel go further, and a short history of the comic strip shows where the format came from.

Panel Lab is part of Stories With Pictures, an Ink Horses site. All artwork is original and nothing you write is saved. The AI helper is AI, and it only sees the scene, the hero and the moods you picked.

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