Panel Layout & Composition¶
Manga & Comics
Open Source¶
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CANVAS Discovered by AI
2026
A multi-agent framework that plans visual continuity across shots and panels for long-form visual storytelling, maintaining consistent characters, stable environments, and smooth scene transitions.
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Manga-Panel-LayoutGAN Discovered by AI
2026
An open-source application that generates unique and creative manga panel layouts using LayoutGAN++. It automatically predicts optimal panel positions and sizes to streamline the comic creation process.
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StoryBlender Discovered by AI
2026
A Blender extension for automated, editable, and inter-shot consistent 3D storyboard production, combining 2D diffusion generators with 3D animation workflows.
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ComfyUI PanelForge (Pixstri) Discovered by AI
2025
A ComfyUI extension designed for comic book panel creation. It provides a hierarchical node system (Page, Row, and Frame nodes) that allows users to design, customize, and preview multi-panel comic layouts and sequential art workflows directly within ComfyUI.
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DreamingComics: A Story Visualization Pipeline via Subject and Layout Customized Generation using Video Models Discovered by AI
2025
A layout-aware story visualization framework that decomposes comic creation into layout generation and layout-aware image customization. It leverages a video diffusion-transformer model and a region-aware positional encoding scheme (RegionalRoPE) to maintain identity and style consistency across panels.
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Manga Panel Extractor Discovered by AI
2025
A web-based and Python-powered tool that automatically detects, segments, and extracts individual panels from manga pages using OpenCV and image processing techniques.
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Manga-Panel-LayoutGAN Discovered by AI
2025
An AI-powered automatic manga panel position prediction and layout generation tool built on the LayoutGAN++ architecture. It automatically predicts optimal panel positions and sizes to generate balanced and dynamic manga page layouts.
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Story2Board Discovered by AI
2025
A training-free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. It introduces Latent Panel Anchoring to preserve character reference across panels and Reciprocal Attention Value Mixing to maintain visual consistency.
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How Panel Layouts Define Manga: Insights from Visual Ablation Experiments Discovered by AI
2024
A research study that quantitatively and qualitatively analyzes the visual characteristics of manga works with a focus on panel layout features. It trains deep learning models on facing page images to investigate how panel layouts contribute to manga identity and storytelling style.
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Manga Editor Desu! Discovered by AI
2024
A standalone, browser-based open-source manga and comic page editor featuring pre-equipped panel layouts, speech bubbles, vertical text, screen tones, and optional AI image generation backends.
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Manga Layout Analysis Discovered by AI
2024
An end-to-end deep learning system integrating instance segmentation models and optical character recognition (OCR) to analyze manga page layouts, detecting panels and text regions.
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MangaDiffusion Discovered by AI
2024
A layout-controllable diffusion model designed for multi-panel manga generation from plain text, facilitating both intra-panel and inter-panel information interaction.
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SP-MangaEditer Discovered by AI
2024
An open-source client-side web application for creating manga-like illustrations, featuring preset comic panel layouts, custom panel shapes, colors, line widths, and integration with Stable Diffusion WebUI.
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2024
Detects panels, characters, and text in manga pages and generates an ordered transcript, supporting layout analysis and accessibility/translation tooling.
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A Customizable Generator for Comic-Style Visual Narrative Discovered by AI
2023
A visual narrative generator incorporating comic-authoring idioms across sequential layers including panel composition, object arrangement, panel transitions, and narrative framing.
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ComfyUI Panels Discovered by AI
2023
A ComfyUI custom node package for generating and organizing comic and manga-like panel layouts. It supports hierarchical cuts, equally spaced cuts, and nested panels to create complex page compositions.
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CPST: Comprehension-Preserving Style Transfer for Multi-Modal Narratives Discovered by AI
2023
A style transfer framework for multi-modal narratives like comics and manga that preserves narrative comprehension by transferring visual styles across multiple dimensions, including panel layout, size, shape, and color.
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MagicScroll: Nontypical Aspect-Ratio Image Generation for Visual Storytelling via Multi-Layered Semantic-Aware Denoising Discovered by AI
2023
A framework for generating coherent and engaging visual narratives in nontypical aspect ratios, such as scroll paintings, comic strips, and panoramas. It utilizes a multi-layered semantic-aware denoising process to control style, concept, and layout across continuous panels.
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Manga Panel Order Estimator Discovered by AI
2022
An official tool from the Manga109 team that estimates the correct reading order of comic and manga panels by recursively dividing panel bounding boxes into a tree structure.
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Automatic Comic Generation with Stylistic Multi-page Layouts Discovered by AI
2021
A fully automatic system for generating comic books from videos, featuring a multi-page layout framework that allocates stylized keyframes across pages and synthesizes visually interesting layouts.
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Proprietary / Industry Tools¶
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Comic Life 4 Discovered by AI
2024
A widely used commercial software for comic page layout, panel design, and lettering, featuring templates, speech balloons, and customizable grids.
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COMICPAD Discovered by AI
2024
An AI-assisted comic panel generator and layout tool designed for batch production of graphic novels and manga, offering panel-first workflows and precise border controls.
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ComicsMaker Discovered by AI
2024
An AI-powered comic strip and manga creator that helps users design pages, generate artwork, and arrange panels into cohesive layouts.
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Mangaka.app Discovered by AI
2024
An AI-powered manga generator that converts written scripts and stories into structured manga pages. It automates character design, panel layout composition, and dialogue bubble placement from text inputs.
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Boords Discovered by AI
2023
A popular web-based collaborative storyboarding platform that features an AI storyboard generator to turn scripts and text prompts into structured visual storyboard frames.
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Dashtoon Discovered by AI
2023
A professional AI-powered comic and webtoon creation platform that enables artists to design panel layouts, train custom character LoRAs for visual consistency, and automate the production pipeline.
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Comic Life Discovered by AI
2013
A popular proprietary software for creating comic layouts, panels, speech bubbles, and lettering from images, widely used by educators and creators.
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