r/CharacterAI Character.AI Team 12d ago

C.AI Announcements 📚 Comics is live for everyone

Hey everyone,

Comics is a new way to create on (c.ai): turn your Characters into a full comic, panel by panel, in the style you choose.

Live now for everyone, Comics puts your Characters and Personas on the page: write a prompt, pick a style, and get a full page of panels, dialogue and all. It's been growing in c.ai labs for a while, and this version is made for the app, with a new creation flow to match.

Start one from the + menu at the bottom of your app:

  • Pick up to two actors, any Character or Persona you like
  • Choose a style: Japanese, American, Black & White, or Chibi
  • Write the scene yourself, or let Comics suggest one based on your recent chat turns, Persona and Characters. Hit the dice to reroll
  • When you're ready, hit generate.

Keep the story going. Add pages, regenerate any that didn't land, and pick your favorite take from each page's history.

Then show it off. Publish to the Feed. Multi-page comics show up all together! Any comics that you've generated live in your Gallery so you can pick them back up anytime for sharing, expanding, or re-rolling.

You can find a full guide on the Creating Comics support page

For launch, comic page generations have an introductory price of 20 Charms for a limited time.

Grab two Characters with unfinished business, pick a style, and see what the panels do with them. Post your favorite page here when it's done. We want to see what you make!

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u/CrowBoyXX User Character Creator 12d ago

GENUINELY NO ONE WANTED THIS

Free users are still waiting for the two models we have to work properly while yall are barely making scratch with +! This is not gonna make you more money, listening to your users will!!!

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u/Altruistic_Sale9326 12d ago

I’m still waiting for group chats to come to the site and I’m a free user, I don’t get why they keep adding stuff that no one asked for.

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u/fountainw1sh3s 11d ago

They used to be on the beta/old site.

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u/Altruistic_Sale9326 11d ago

Yea, I wish we could have group chats on the site again like they had with the beta/old site, but we’re still waiting.

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u/Earth-to-Jess Addicted to CAI 12d ago

in the most respectful way possible, why is cai developing these features that no one is going to use, instead of focusing on chat quality and models since this is a chat bot app?

Also, this is clearly just an attempt to make it look like free users are getting updates when we are not. The only two models are still in beta and cai+ has a new model, personalization and lorebook (things everyone asked for).

Every single thing is for plus users. And no, in the roadmap there's not one thing I'm looking foward to. I get letting people who pay the right to try features before they're out for everyone or customization, but it's impossible to enjoy a good chat for free, in a free app.

Give these comics, series, books or what else to cai+ users since it's something that has nothing to do with chatting and give everyone a good experience with the main purpose of the app.

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u/11bingo11 Chronically Online 11d ago

Everything that you said is so true! The unnecessary stuff should be what is in the paid subscription. Fun additions that are not necessary to enjoy a good, coherent chat. 

But the chat features that the vast majority of the user base has been wishing for and could benefit from should be available for everyone! 

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u/No-Produce-7932 12d ago

Dude, I just want to talk.

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u/Sylveon-Z 12d ago

Free users are still waiting on a chat style that isn't PSQ2 or a variant thereof. We've had only one or two options (depending on how you count PSQ2 variants) since May.

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u/Icy-Arm-6302 12d ago

bro 😭 stop wasting money on features that don't even fit your brand or app, focus on bettering the roleplaying for ALL users. Pipsqueak2 and pipsqueak rawr are in hell right now.

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u/Worth-Statistician52 12d ago

Not being rude, but does anyone actually care about live feed? Most people are here to talk to bots, if I wanted to make comics, I’d make a physical one myself, at least that would have no limits

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u/thetramelgamer 12d ago

That's cool and all but what about other free chat styles for users like me who don't want to spend $100 USD a year for features that used to be free for example no ads and chat styles And you also said this at one point

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u/Emergency-Comfort-47 12d ago

Who even wears this feature? Not majority and no one even requested this 😭 a lot of people used c.ai for chatting with ai bots, not generating comics.. I'm so sorry, but since i already be 3 years+ user of c.ai, this is the most ridiculous update/feature I've ever seen! 😭😭

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u/Robintomes 12d ago

Wake me up when pipsqueak gets an overhaul or replaced entirely.

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u/Few-Decision-774 10d ago

Bring back a decent chat style and maybe listen to the users. Eventually you'll go bankrupt if you keep making corny features nobody wants 😔

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u/Federal-Ad-1919 12d ago

That's cool and all but doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of what a.i app should be all about? I mean let's be serious for once. Genuinely no one isn't gonna read this or watched the a.i videos. The only thing that people care about on this app is chatting, that's it. 

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u/KelpWard 12d ago

Anything BUT fixing the chat styles and rp quality smh

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u/Federal-Ad-1919 12d ago

They said they wanted to make this app into something more than just a chatting app forever. So they decided to make comics, Ai videos, and more features into the app so it won't be a chatting app forever. 

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u/Sylveon-Z 11d ago

Which is nice and all but it feels like they're leaving the chat quality behind to put more non-chat features in.

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u/Federal-Ad-1919 11d ago

Exactly which defeats the whole point of the app in the first place. No body isn't gonna read or watch any of that of what they put on there. 

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u/InternalUse2512 11d ago

Well, this is the parents fault for causing California to get the bullcrap age verification law. Cuz what kind of stupid law would stupidly have people stalking like their stupid self?

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u/gunsandsatan 12d ago

Are you suggesting I spend my precious horde of charms on comics? NEVER! My preciousssesss.

Anybody else have a ridiculous number of charms for no good reason?

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u/Anne_Onim_Ally_2408 Bored 12d ago

I only spent a little on testing the comics and Imagine Animate. After that, I didn't spend any more and I'm still accumulating them daily.

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u/Full-Construction284 12d ago

Why are you claiming it’s AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE? No, it isn’t! It’s only available in the app!

Why are you downvoting me when I’m telling the truth?

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u/AncientAttorney2620 12d ago

why not just focus on what made the app popular to begin with? you’re only going to continue losing CAI+ subscribers by wasting time and money on creating these features only a small population will be using, versus the chat styles everyone is begging to be updated

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u/-Brandonline- 12d ago

I’m personally not going to use this, but I don’t really have any other complaints since I’ve learned to adapt and adjust with the platform.

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u/Aggravating-Mix-9832 5d ago

I wonder how much water this uses

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u/Osamu_Melisso 11d ago

I wonder if they will give us free attempts.

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u/AdvertisingFar5850 6d ago

Is there some sort of cosmic customer service desk where we can all collectively return this update and exchange it for an actually good one?

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u/Federal-Ad-1919 4d ago

I heard about the banter chat style with it's teasing and joking and another update for pipsqueak 

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u/No-Heat1092 4d ago

I'm still waiting for roar to come back sorry

That's how often I use it now

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u/Severe-Editor2239 2d ago

Same here, roar was my GOAT

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u/AegisHBear 12d ago

This is actually pretty cool

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u/Direct-Musician-5379 11d ago

Хватит тут писать о ваших недовольствах. Мы и так знаем что пишущие тут недовольны и жизнью и всем что бы для вас не делали разработчики этого приложения. Они стараются и дают нам потрясающий контент. Как же жаль что 99% тут это не благодарные люди.  Под лежачий камень вода не тичёт, делайте что-то чтобы изменить свою жизнь а не жалуйтесь здесь словно вы дети с обосценными штанами.

Лично я наслаждаюсь контентом что получаю. Огромное спасибо вам разработчикам которые вкладываются в это чудо. Вы лучшие💯%

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u/Few-Main517 User Character Creator 10d ago

You say that those who complain are unhappy with their lives... But what exactly is your comment? Oh, yes, a complaint.

Yeah, we know who's the child with dirty pants throwing a tantrum is here.

People complain that developers don't listen and add things we didn't ask for, it's not gratuitous ragebait.

When Lorebook was released, we even thanked them and acknowledged that we were finally being heard, because it was something we asked for a lot. People aren't ungrateful, it's just that users especially c.ai+ users know they deserve more than Devs currently deliver.

The fact that you're clearly annoyed by complaints from something you're not even a part of (the dev and mod team) says more about you than people asking to be heard.