Your child, the hero of their own comic book

Yes. A personalized comic book for kids is made by a parent or another adult: Comicpix accounts are for adults (18+), and children never have accounts. You add one photo of your child and their name, choose a story, and the comic is drawn with your child as the main character. If you submit a child’s photo, you must have the authority and permissions necessary to do so.

Your child’s photo is private: it is used only to draw the comic and is deleted after 7 days, or after 30 days if you unlock the comic. If you’d rather not upload a photo at all, pick a ready-made character and type your child’s name; ready-made characters are AI-generated, not real children.

The cover is drawn first and the preview is free. A monthly plan unlocks the full comic, drawn page by page; read it together online or download the PDF. It’s a digital comic, so nothing is printed or shipped.

On the morning of your child’s birthday, a glowing cape arrives in a box with no return address. After some wobbly first flights in the backyard, a storm knocks out every light in the city. Your child flies out, rescues a stuck kitten, guides a bus of kids home through the rain and restarts the lights at the old power tower with courage and a clever idea. On the last page, the city lights spell “Happy Birthday” with your child’s name, and the family celebrates on the rooftop.

It’s drawn in the superhero style. Comicpix’s superhero style is instructed to draw your child as an original hero in an original costume; existing suits, logos and emblems are excluded from the style brief, so it won’t be a famous character.

Other stories for the same cape

Inside “The Birthday Cape” you can swap the plot for one of its other starters: super speed on the morning of the school race, a sudden talent for talking to animals when the zoo needs help, toys that come alive and need a leader for one wild night, or a secret mission to fix the moon. Or write your own few sentences: the classroom hamster that escapes, the lost tooth that turns into a treasure hunt.

A comic can star two characters, so two siblings, or a child and the family dog, can share the lead. “The Birthday Cape” has one hero; for two, start your own comic and add the second character in the Cast step.

Birthdays are the most common reason to make one, and the cape story is built for that day. For an adult’s birthday instead, see the birthday comic book page. If the kids want to give Dad a comic where he is the hero, an adult makes it on the personalized comic book for dad page.

For a holiday present, the Christmas comic book gift page covers story ideas and giving a digital comic on the day.