A personalized comic book for your boyfriend, starring him

Yes. Upload one photo of him, type his name and pick a story, and Comicpix draws a 12-page comic in which he is the only main character: a detective case, an action comedy or a shonen showdown, in the style he actually reads.

You see the cover first, free, in about a minute; after that a monthly plan unlocks all 12 pages to read online or download as a PDF and send to him. It’s a digital gift: nothing is printed or shipped.

Want both of you in the story instead? That’s the personalized comic book for couples page. For other people in your life, start from the personalized comic book hub.

A single-lead comic works best when the plot gives him one job: solve the case, survive the fight, master the power. The story starters below come from Comicpix’s own templates and story catalog; swap in his real job, his car, his team or the thing he always loses.

A mystery, in the noir style

“The Midnight Case” casts the hero as a detective who never forgets a face, hired to find a missing jazz singer while every clue points back to his own past. Other noir starters from the same template: a jewel heist where the only witness is a parrot; a stranger who hands him the key to a room that does not exist; one night to clear the name of an old partner; a forged painting that pulls him into the city’s most dangerous art auction.

An action comedy, in the comic style

“Absolute Chaos” starts with Noah trying his best line on Eva and ends with him mistaken for a fighter called the Ghost, tripping over his own feet and knocking out the champion of an underground league she runs. Give him a mix-up and a win he didn’t plan.

A shonen showdown, in the manga style

“Cosmic Clash” opens on a late-night rooftop workout: pull-ups, then an ancient cosmic power bursting out of the hero, and a rival across the city who feels it and comes looking. Put his sport, his gym or his commute on page one.

Write it in a few sentences

You don’t need dialogue or drawing skills. In your own comic you type his name in the Cast step and write a few sentences in the Story step, and the comic is written around them. Or open “The Midnight Case” below and make it his: that button starts the same detective story with his photo and his name in the lead role.

Match the style to what he reads. Comicpix draws in 12 illustration styles, one style for the whole comic, and three of them have single-lead examples on this site: manga (“The Lantern Fox”), comic (“Absolute Chaos”) and noir (“The Midnight Case”).

If he reads manga, the make a manga of yourself page shows the manga style page by page. Superhero, fantasy, sci-fi and cyberpunk are also available; browse all 12 on the comic art styles page. Comicpix’s superhero style is instructed to draw him as an original hero in an original costume; existing suits, logos and emblems are excluded from the style brief.

This page is for a comic with one main character: him. A couples comic has two leads, you and him, and lives on its own page.

If the gift is about him alone — his case, his fight, his power — stay here: one photo of him is all it takes. If you want to appear beside him, the couples page is the better fit; “How We Met” and “Let It Rain” are its two-lead examples, and its six-beat anniversary structure works for any “us” story.