Make their comic

Personalized comic books. Make anyone
the hero

Turn the person you choose into the hero of their own printed comic, then put their family, their friends, and even the pet right there in it with them.

Create your comic

See the cover and the opening free — pay only if you like it. Then you read every page before it prints, with time to ask for changes.

Sample comic cover: “Hector and the Root of All Evil” — a grandfather and his two grandchildren haul on a giant grinning vine in their vegetable garden.
Sample comic cover: “Vanessa & the Stop Squad” — a woman in a hard hat holds up a stop sign against a wall of falling rock, with her husband, daughter, and corgi beside her.
Comic cover with a caped family team — two adults, a child, and their dog

Tap the comic to open it

What shows up

A real comic book, printed and mailed

It arrives as an actual comic — the size you’d pull off a shelf, in full color on heavy paper. The kind of thing that stays on a nightstand for years, not the kind that gets quietly recycled in a week.

  • 32 or 64 pages and 60+ panels, start to finish
  • Paperback comic book or hardcover graphic novel, printed in full color
  • One of a kind, written and drawn from scratch
  • Shipped tracked to your door, anywhere in the US

Sample comics

Anyone can be the hero

A partner, a parent, a grandkid, a best friend, your kid, even you. Pick the hero, bring along whoever matters to them, and they get a story that exists nowhere else.

Sample comic cover: “Super Dad and the Backyard Grill-Off” — a dad in a red apron raises a spatula as burgers and corn fly around his backyard grill.
A dad and backyard grill master
Sample comic cover: “Crossed Wires” — a nine-year-old crouches on an open signal box with a screwdriver throwing sparks, her dad holding a lane clear beside his bus, and their orange tabby sitting on a second box.
A kid, her dad, and the cat
Sample comic cover: “Hector and the Root of All Evil” — a grandfather and his two grandchildren haul on a giant grinning vine in their vegetable garden.
A grandpa and his two grandkids
Sample comic cover: “Fade Out” — a barber drops into a ready-crouch with his clippers raised while his wife shields them with a steaming baking tray, a huge chrome grooming machine looming behind.
A husband and wife
Sample comic cover: “Vanessa & the Stop Squad” — a woman in a hard hat holds up a stop sign against a wall of falling rock, with her husband, daughter, and corgi beside her.
A mom, her husband, their daughter, and the corgi
Sample comic cover: “Rachel & Dave: Eye of the Storm” — a family braces a beach umbrella against a towering storm over their sandcastle.
A couple and their two kids
Create your comic

More than one hero

Put their whole crew in it

The best gift usually isn’t about one person on their own. Add up to 5 co-stars, and everyone in there gets their own name, their own face, and their own job to do in the story.

Comic cover with a single caped hero striking a triumphant pose
Just the hero
Comic cover with a caped family team — two adults, a child, and their dog
Or the whole crew
  • Partner
  • Kids
  • Grandkids
  • Mom and dad
  • Brothers and sisters
  • Best friend
  • The dog
  • The cat

Inside the comic

A real story, page after page

Not a face dropped into a template. Every page is drawn for this one story, with panels, captions, and speech balloons, and everyone in the cast keeps their own face from the first page to the last.

Sample interior page: three comic panels of a grandfather and his two grandchildren in the garden, with captions and speech balloons.
Page 1 — Hector and the Root of All Evil
Sample interior page: three comic panels of a family around a backyard smoker at dusk, their beagle running off with a sausage, and the sky cracking open.
Page 1 — Weld Done, Wes
Sample interior page: three comic panels of a barber finishing a cut, closing up with his wife on the sidewalk, and something large going over the street.
Page 1 — Fade Out
Sample interior page: three comic panels of a road crew on a desert highway, with captions and speech balloons.
Page 1 — Vanessa & the Stop Squad
Sample interior page: three comic panels of a girl taking a toaster apart in the garage with her cat, her dad in the doorway, and every traffic light on the avenue turning green at once.
Page 1 — Crossed Wires
Sample interior page: three comic panels of a nurse on a night shift as something lands outside, with captions and speech balloons.
Page 1 — Ryan: Last Pod Standing
Sample interior page: three comic panels of a dad seasoning ribs at sunrise, accepting a neighborhood grill-off challenge, and raising his tongs.
Page 1 — Super Dad and the Backyard Grill-Off

Bookva reviews

What buyers say about their comics

4.9out of 5, from 79 published reviews*
  • He's going to love it when he opens it at Christmas time! Great box to keep it safe during transit! I plan to wrap it in the same box. Maybe, take a little more time when taping the box, so it doesn't look so messy when it arrives. Kudos to the team for creating the perfect comic from my info!
    Debbie*Verified buyer
  • What are unique gift for my brother. He and his wife laughed and laughed. Now he wants to do create a comic book for his adult son.
    Shaeon*Verified buyer
  • I ordered 3 different comics and they are AWESOME!!! Great quality and wonderful communication and follow through along the way. They also arrived quickly! Can’t wait to give them for Christmas and see the responses! My co-worker ordered as well after seeing mine. Thank you!
    Kat*Verified buyer

* Buyers who rate their comic get a free PDF of it, whatever score they give. Reviews from those buyers are marked with an asterisk, and their ratings count toward the average.

Read 79 Bookva reviews

How it works

Their comic in 4 steps

01

Tell us who’s in it

The hero, anyone you want beside them, and one clear photo of each. A few details about them, and you’re done.

Free02

See it before you pay

We draw everyone as comic characters and write their story. You read the cover and the opening first, and pay only if you like it.

03

We draw the whole book

Once you order, every page is drawn and lettered for this one story — usually finished within a day.

04

You read it, then it prints

The finished book reaches your email before anything is printed. Then it ships, tracked to your door.

Before it prints

Nothing prints before it reaches you

After you order, the whole comic is drawn and emailed to you — and the comic that reaches your door is the one that landed in your inbox, page for page. Asking for a change is normal, and it costs nothing.

  • Every page lands in your inbox, exactly as it will be printed
  • Something reads wrong? Tell us and we’ll fix it, free
  • Looks right? Say yes and it goes straight to the printer

What it costs

The price, before you start

Comic book32 pages, paperback
$69.90
Graphic novel64 pages, hardcover
$99.90
US shippingbilled separately, on top of the book
$6.90

Before you pay: you see the cover and the opening, and you only pay if you like them.

After you order: we draw the whole comic and email you every page of it. Ask for changes — they’re free. It goes to print once it reads right.

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Good to know

Questions, answered

A comic book written and drawn for one person. You choose the hero, share a photo and a few details about them, and we write a complete story where they are the hero, draw everyone in it so they are recognizably themselves, and print it as a real comic book. Nobody else has one like it, which is why people give it as a gift.
Create your comic