Comic Book Creator

Comic Book Creator is a personal SolidStart app for making printable comic books. It is built around a desktop-style editor where books are saved locally, pages can be arranged into different panel layouts, and comic text can be placed directly on the printable page.

Source: byronwall/comic-book-creator

Interface

How it works

The app keeps the workflow intentionally direct: create a book, add pages, pick printable layouts, place text, and print. Edits autosave back to JSON files on the server so the project works well as a local family tool without needing accounts or hosted infrastructure.

• Editor framework:
  • SolidStart and SolidJS power the app shell, routes, and reactive editing state.
• Persistence:
  • Comic books are stored as local JSON records, with server-side normalization for older records and missing fields.
• Page design:
  • Pages support letter and half-sheet paper sizes in portrait or landscape.
  • Layout templates include classic grids, splash pages, strips, reveal layouts, letterbox pages, webtoon-style stacks, and angled action panels.
• Text tooling:
  • Printable text elements include speech bubbles, thought bubbles, captions, and sound effects.
  • Text can be dragged, resized, rotated, deleted, wrapped, aligned, and switched between bubble styles.
• UI system:
  • Panda CSS, Park UI, Ark UI wrappers, and Lucide icons provide the shared controls and dialog flows.

Highlights

• Multi-book library with create, open, rename, and delete flows
• Page rail for selecting, adding, reordering, and deleting pages
• Template picker with live miniature previews for each layout
• Direct manipulation of comic text on the printable page
• Side-panel controls for bubble type, copy, size, alignment, wrapping, and rotation
• Print actions for the current page or the whole book