Custom comics for companies
Nobody reads the handbook. They'll read the comic.
Your safety briefing, your origin story, your new-starter guide — told as a real comic book. Sixteen full-color pages, written from your answers and drawn in the style you pick.
Free to build. No card until you've seen the cover.
Start here
What's the comic for?
Two quick answers to get going. Next you'll tell us about the business, add who's in it, and pick from the story ideas we write.
Featuring
Your business
Our origin story
How it works
Three steps to your comic
You know your business and what happened in it. We turn that into sixteen illustrated pages.
Tell us about the business
Paste your website address and we'll read it for your name, what you do and your logo — then you correct whatever we got wrong. Or type it yourself; it's four boxes.
Pick the story and the cast
Choose what the comic is for, add the people in it and what each of them is to you, and we write three story ideas from your answers. Rewrite any of them, or tell us exactly what should happen.
See the cover, then decide
Your story and your real cover, drawn in your style, cost nothing. Order the digital issue or printed copies for the booth.
What you're getting
Sixteen pages, all of it yours
A cover, a title page, twelve pages of story, a teaser for issue #2 and a back cover — with your logo on the mark, your products in the panels, and a QR code on the back if you want one.
- The same faces throughoutEvery character gets a design sheet built from the photos you add, so the supervisor on page twelve is the supervisor from the cover.
- Your products, drawn from your photosAdd the machine, the van, the packaging. It gets drawn as itself, in the story and in the ad pages, instead of a generic stand-in.
- Three art stylesModern, cinematic and widescreen; Vintage, with bold 1960s color; or Manga, fast and full of motion.
- Printed for the boothFull-color copies, checked by us before they ship anywhere in the US. Price per copy falls as you order more.
Four kinds of business comic
The message you keep repeating, in a form people finish
Pick who the comic is about. The story shape follows from it, and every shape asks its own questions — so nothing about the comic is generic.
01Our story
How the company came to be, or how the thing you're known for got built. People, not a timeline.
Story shapes
- Our origin story
- How we built it
02Our customers
The customer whose problem you fixed, or your product doing its work in one real scenario.
Story shapes
- A customer's journey
- The product in use
03Our people
The first ninety days, the team that pulled it off, the new system nobody wanted, the day it nearly went wrong.
Story shapes
- First 90 days
- Behind the scenes with the team
- Rolling out something new
- The day it nearly went wrong
04Brand character
Your mascot with a goal, an obstacle and a win. A character that can come back next issue.
Story shapes
- Brand character
Before you begin
Good questions, straight answers
Building your story and drawing your cover are free. The rest of the comic is drawn after you order.
See full pricingWhat does a comic cost?
The digital comic is $25. A printed copy is $49.99 and includes the digital issue, with the price per copy falling as you order more. Nothing is charged while you build the story and the cover.
What kinds of comics can it be?
Four kinds, by who the comic is about: your story (how the company came to be, how the thing you're known for got built), your customers (the customer whose problem you fixed, your product at work), your people (a new starter's first ninety days, a near-miss on the ramp, the system nobody wanted), or a brand character. Each asks its own questions, so the comic is built from what only you know.
Do I pay to create the story and cover?
No. You enter the details, pick a story, and we draw your real cover — no payment information needed. You decide afterwards whether to buy the comic.
What happens to the photos I add?
Photos are uploaded to our storage on Amazon Web Services in the United States and kept with your comic, because they are what holds a character looking like the same character from page to page and what lets a later issue match the first. We use them to draw your comic and nothing else, we never use photos of identifiable people in our own marketing without asking, and we will delete them on request at hello@obbo.me.
Can I order a printed comic?
Yes. Printed copies are inspected by us before they ship and delivered inside the United States in about two weeks. Runs above 50 copies are quoted individually, and if you need delivery to another country, email us the country and we will tell you when we can ship there.
Can I change the story?
Yes. Choose another direction, adjust the tone, edit the title and synopsis yourself, or start the comic again. Nothing is drawn until you say go, and nothing is printed that you have not approved.
Will it look like the real people?
Every page is drawn from your story and your reference photos. It aims for a recognizable likeness, with artistic differences. Your free cover is drawn exactly the same way, so what you see on it is how the rest of the comic will look.
See the cover before you pay a thing
Answer the questions, pick the style, and see your real cover, drawn free. The other fifteen pages are drawn once you order.
Start your comic