Cartoon & anime
American comic book
Bold inks, halftone dots and dynamic panels.
Sent with your prompt
American comic book art: bold black brush inks with heavy solid-black shadow shapes and feathered hatching, filled with flat or lightly shaded saturated color. Dynamic, muscular poses, strong foreshortening and dramatic angles, with motion lines and impact bursts. A printed look with halftone dots, slight paper aging and a cover-style composition built around one central figure.
Images
What is a comic AI generator?
It makes images in the look of printed comic books: inked outlines of changing weight, solid black shadows, flat or halftone color, panels and lettered balloons. Use it for single panels, full pages, covers, strips and ads. On Nano Banana 2.1 an image costs 10 credits. You can start for free.
What makes the look
Ink, color, panels, lettering and angle
They come from print: ink, cheap color and a page cut into panels. Name the ones you want.
Ink
Black outlines that swell and taper, with hatching and large solid blacks for shadow.
Color
Flat fills or halftone dots, in a few strong colors on off-white paper.
Panels
The page split into boxes with white gutters. Say how many and what happens in each.
Lettering
Speech balloons, caption boxes and sound effects, with the exact words in quotes.
Angle
Low and high camera angles, close-ups and motion lines, so each panel moves the story.
- Category
- Illustration
- Best subjects
- Panels, full pages, covers, strips, comic-style ads
- Pairs with
- Social posts skill
- Credits
- 10 per image on Nano Banana 2.1
- Finer lettering
- Nano Banana Pro
Your photo, in comic style
Attach a photo of yourself and ask for comic style.
How to make a comic page
Plan the panels
Give the panel count and the layout: a wide panel across the top, two side by side, one tall panel. Then one action per panel, in reading order.
Write the words yourself
Put every balloon, caption and sound effect in quotes and keep each line short. Say there is no other text. Check every word when the image comes back.
Keep the cast the same
Each prompt starts fresh. Attach an earlier panel and say who must look the same. Nano Banana 2.1 takes up to 14 reference images.
Questions about comic images
Comic art comes from print. It has inked lines that change weight, heavy black shadows, halftone dots, panels and lettering. Cartoon uses even outlines and simple shapes for one character. Anime follows Japanese animation, with cel shading and large eyes.
Yes. Put each line in quotes, keep it short and describe the lettering. Text can still come out wrong: in our model guide, Nano Banana 2 printed a line that is not a word. Check every balloon, and try Nano Banana Pro for finer text.
Each prompt starts fresh, with no memory of the last one. Attach your best panel of the character as a reference and say what must stay: face, hair, clothes, colors. Nano Banana 2.1 takes up to 14 reference images.
Yes. Give the number of panels, where each sits on the page and what happens in each, in reading order. For a longer story, make one page at a time and attach the last page as a reference.
10 credits on Nano Banana 2.1 and 32 on Nano Banana Pro. A full page is one image. You can start for free.
Yes. Attach it as a reference image and name the style. The face can change a little from run to run, so run a few and keep the closest.
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StyleCartoonBold outlines, flat color and simple shapes for characters, scenes, brand illustrations, mascots and pet portraits.Learn more
StyleAnimeKey visuals, quiet everyday frames, character sheets and painted backgrounds with cel shading and clean ink lines.Learn more
Use caseIllustrationsEditorial spots in one style across a series, from your sketch or a photo, in pixels or as SVG.Learn more