An AI-powered pre-production assistant that converts unstructured creative ideas into production-ready comic scripts, storyboards, and character designs.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install comic-create
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install comic-create using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Comic Create?
The comic-create skill is an advanced pre-production planning tool designed to convert brief, unstructured creative prompts into comprehensive, artist-ready comic assets. Ideal for manga artists, editors, and visual creators, this utility bridges the gap between raw imagination and structured, visual direction. As a core offering among Openclaw Skills, it helps writers and creators automate the tedious scaffolding steps of visual storytelling.
Instead of generating raw images, this skill acts as a meticulous textual planner. It optimizes dialogue, designs sequential action beats, structures classic four-panel strips, and maps out balanced page layouts. If user descriptions are sparse, the skill intelligently asks up to three targeted clarifying questions to lock down themes, characters, and formats before generating complete production documents.
Comic Create Use Cases
- Manga & Comic Scriptwriting: Easily outline themes, character profiles, narrative arcs, and page structures from minimal starting prompts.
- Storyboard Scaffolding: Automatically decompose narratives into cell-by-cell storyboard tables featuring camera angles, panel contents, and bubble placements.
- Four-Panel (Yonkoma) Manga Design: Streamline the creation of four-panel comedy or slice-of-life strips using the classic "Kishōtenketsu" structure.
- Character Conception & Sheet Generation: Generate comprehensive character profiles containing psychological traits, relational dynamics, and descriptive text tailored for AI image generation pipelines.
- Layout & Visual Pacing Optimization: Define reading directions, panel sizing ratios, and focal points to maximize visual tension and pacing before drawing begins.
How Comic Create Works
- Task Categorization: The skill analyzes the input query to determine the exact comic-planning delivery format needed (e.g., script, layout, character sheet, or guide).
- Context Gap Analysis: If key details (genre, main characters, style, length, or target audience) are missing, the skill prompts the user with 1 to 3 targeted clarification questions.
- Structural Breakdown: The skill drafts a thematic core, defining emotional curves, conflict nodes, and ending hooks before diving into page-by-page detailing.
- Scripting and Storyboarding: Content is mapped into detailed tables describing framing, character expressions, dialog, sound effects, and bubble layout specifications.
- Format Validation: The script is rendered using clean, parseable Markdown templates that integrate seamlessly into image-generation or publication pipelines in the Openclaw Skills ecosystem.
Comic Create Setup
# Install the comic-create skill via your Openclaw CLI manager
openclaw install skill comic-create
# Configure global preferences in your workspace configuration
cat <<EOF > .openclaw/config/skills/comic-create.yaml
settings:
default_language: "English"
output_format: "markdown_table"
clarification_threshold: 3
EOF
Comic Create Data Schema & Taxonomy
Structure & Format Outputs
The comic-create skill leverages structured Markdown tables to compile storyboard assets, ensuring precise visual direction for subsequent drawing stages.
Storyboard Schema Table
| Field | Format | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Page/Panel | String (e.g., P1-F1) |
The page index and corresponding panel frame number. |
| Visual Content | String | Detailed setting and action description for artists or prompt pipelines. |
| Camera Lens/Angle | String | Perspective directives (e.g., Wide Shot, Close-up, Low-angle). |
| Character Action | String | Specific physical poses, body language, and emotional cues. |
| Dialog / SFX | String | Onomatopoeia and character speech, optimized for bubble constraints. |
| Layout Notes | String | Spatial bubble arrangement, reading direction, and focal pacing. |
Character Profile Schema
- Metadata: Name, age, role, target motivation, and fatal flaws.
- Visual Prompt: Concise hair, outfit, facial, and accessory descriptors built for image generators.
- Speech Habits: Signature taglines and dialogue examples highlighting personality tone.
Comic Create Advanced Features
- Classic Kishōtenketsu Pacing: Native automation for structuring four-panel manga strips into clear Introduction, Development, Twist, and Resolution beats.
- AI Image Generation Prompting: Directly formats visual action lines and character appearances into optimized text descriptions compatible with Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, or other imaging pipelines.
- Bubble & Dialog Optimization: Ensures dialogue sentences are highly conversational, concise, and formatted to fit inside standard panel proportions without covering crucial character artwork.
- Visual Flow Guidance: Integrates directional eye-movement cues, negative space suggestions, and grid-scaling metrics directly into layout output sheets.
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