Shortbread – Create AI comics in minutes
Just go to the link and click on "Start Creating". No signing in required. I built shortbread to help anyone to create comics / manga series. The onboarding process helps you kick start a page from 60%, then you can use your creativity to bring it to 1000% in a fully-controllable editor. Tech stack: GPT 3.5 Turbo - the comic script generation. It handled everything from layout, character, scene, SD prompts, to dialogue. SD 1.5 - We put up SD servers on GCP. For every comic we generate one large image and crop it into panels. Per the experiments of u/Deathmarkedadc on Reddit, this…
Shortbread – Create AI comics in minutes launched on October 6, 2023 with 235 votes, #158 of 4,393 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Shortbread is an AI-powered tool for creating comics and manga series without requiring sign-up. It uses GPT-3.5 Turbo to generate scripts, layouts, characters, and dialogue, then Stable Diffusion 1.5 to produce images that are automatically cropped into panels. Users start with an AI-generated page template at 60% completion and refine it further in a fully-controllable editor built with Next.js and React. The tool is designed for anyone wanting to create visual stories quickly, though it performs better with anime-style content than animals.
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From the sources
Read spicy romantic comics. Fully illustrated spicy graphic novels. Created by USA Today Bestselling authors, Kindle bestselling authors.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Just go to the link and click on "Start Creating". No signing in required. I built shortbread to help anyone to create comics / manga series. The onboarding process helps you kick start a page from 60%, then you can use your creativity to bring it to 1000% in a fully-controllable editor. Tech stack: GPT 3.5…
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