Personalized comic books
Make them the hero of their own comic book.
Cast them as a superhero, a detective or a space captain, or tell the true story your family can't stop retelling. Sixteen full-color pages, drawn from your photos in the style you choose.
Free to build. No card until you've seen the cover.
Start here
Who's the hero, and what's the story?
Three quick answers to get going. Next you'll add the cast, pick the kind of story and tell us what it's about.
Starring
Your hero
Starring Them
How it works
Three steps to their comic
You know the people and the stories. We turn them into sixteen illustrated pages.
Build the cast
Add the hero, their people and their pets, with a photo or two of each. Add the things worth drawing too: the car, the treehouse, the lucky hat.
Choose the story
Pick one of three story ideas written from your answers, rewrite it, or tell us exactly what should happen.
See the cover, then decide
Your story and your real cover, drawn in your style, cost nothing. Love it? Order the digital comic or printed copies.
What you're getting
Sixteen pages, every one about them
A cover, a title page, twelve pages of story, a teaser for issue #2 and a back cover, drawn around the people and details you gave us.
- The same face on every pageEach character gets a design sheet built from your photos, so the hero on page twelve is the hero from the cover.
- Details only you would knowThe dog's name, Dad's terrible puns, the car that never starts. Tell us, and we'll write them in.
- Three art stylesVintage, with bold 1960s color; Modern, cinematic and widescreen; or Manga, fast and full of motion.
- Printed like the real thingFull-color copies, checked by us before they ship anywhere in the US.
Six kinds of story
Save the world, or tell the story everyone already knows
Invent an adventure with them at the center, or draw a true story the way it deserves to be told. Every kind asks its own questions, so nothing about the comic is generic.
01Starring Them
Any genre you like, with them in the lead: superhero, spy, explorer or romantic hero.
Picture it
- Mom, secretly the city's last line of defense, saves the day and still makes school pickup.
- Your dinosaur-mad seven-year-old leads the expedition that finds the last living T. rex.
- The two of you as rival spies in 1960s Monaco who keep falling for each other.
02The Vacation
The vacation you still talk about: the plan, the detours, and everything in between.
Picture it
- The road trip where the car died in Nevada and the week only got better.
- Your honeymoon in Japan, missed bullet train and all.
- Four friends, one rented camper van and a wrong turn in the Scottish Highlands.
03Their Life So Far
The moments that made them, told like the origin story it is.
Picture it
- Dad at eighty: from the farm kid who fixed tractors to the man who built the family business.
- Forty years of night shifts, for the nurse who's finally retiring.
- Your best friend at forty, from the bowl cut to the person everyone calls first.
04How We Met
How you two met, what nearly got in the way, and the moment you both knew.
Picture it
- The wedding neither of you wanted to go to, and the dance that changed your minds.
- Two strangers, one canceled flight, and fourteen hours in the Denver airport.
- Twenty-five years married, starting with the worst first date on record.
05The Story We Always Tell
The one everybody retells, from Great-grandma's crossing to the Thanksgiving the oven died, drawn as the epic it always was.
Picture it
- Great-grandma crossing the ocean alone at nineteen, with one suitcase and a recipe book.
- The Thanksgiving the oven died and dinner was cooked on the grill in the snow.
- The day the dog swallowed the wedding rings, an hour before the ceremony.
06How They Did It
What they took on, what nearly stopped them, and how they got through.
Picture it
- The degree she earned while working nights and raising two kids.
- His first marathon, eighteen months after the knee surgery.
- A year of treatment, and the people who showed up for every appointment.
Before you begin
Good questions, straight answers
Building your story and drawing your cover are free. The rest of the comic is drawn after you order.
See full pricingWhat does a comic cost?
The digital comic is $25. A printed copy is $49.99 and includes the digital issue, with the price per copy falling as you order more. Nothing is charged while you build the story and the cover.
What kinds of stories can it be?
Almost anything. Make them a superhero, a detective, a space explorer or the lead in a romance, or tell something true: how you met, a family legend, their life so far. You choose how closely it sticks to what really happened.
Do I pay to create the story and cover?
No. You enter the details, pick a story, and we draw your real cover — no payment information needed. You decide afterwards whether to buy the comic.
What happens to the photos I add?
Photos are uploaded to our storage on Amazon Web Services in the United States and kept with your comic, because they are what holds a character looking like the same character from page to page and what lets a later issue match the first. We use them to draw your comic and nothing else, we never use photos of identifiable people in our own marketing without asking, and we will delete them on request at hello@obbo.me.
Can I order a printed comic?
Yes. Printed copies are inspected by us before they ship and delivered inside the United States in about two weeks. Runs above 50 copies are quoted individually, and if you need delivery to another country, email us the country and we will tell you when we can ship there.
Can I change the story?
Yes. Choose another direction, adjust the tone, edit the title and synopsis yourself, or start the comic again. Nothing is drawn until you say go, and nothing is printed that you have not approved.
Will it look like the real people?
Every page is drawn from your story and your reference photos. It aims for a recognizable likeness, with artistic differences. Your free cover is drawn exactly the same way, so what you see on it is how the rest of the comic will look.
See the cover before you pay a thing
Build the story, pick the style, and see your real cover, drawn free. The rest of the comic is drawn once you order.
Start their comic