Publishing your first comic
You have a studio. Now to get a comic out into the world. A published issue sits inside a project (your series), holds your pages, gets a cover and a price, and then goes live on your public page. This is the whole path.
1The fast lane: the guided wizard
The quickest way to go from nothing to published is the Create wizard (the + in the header). It chains the whole path together: a studio, a project, then an asset, and the asset step takes you all the way through upload, preview, and publish. Every step has Back, Skip, and Next, so you can breeze through or stop anywhere.
2Start with a project
A project is your series, the container every issue belongs to. From your studio's Projects tab, choose New Project and give it a title. Inside the project you add an asset: for a comic, pick the comic kind, name it (like "Issue 1"), and you have a place for your pages.
3Bring in your pages
Open your issue and add your page art. Drag and drop your files, or use the picker. Pages appear as a grid you can reorder by dragging. Each page has non-destructive adjustments (brightness, contrast, straighten, and more), and if you want to draw or letter right here, every page has a Draw button (a full drawing studio) and a Balloons tab for speech and captions.
- Your original upload is never changed, adjustments are previewed live and baked in only when you publish.
- Pages move through draft, review, approved, so a team can sign off before it ships.
- Re-uploading a page keeps the old version in Version history, nothing is lost.
4Give it a cover and a price
A great cover is the first thing readers see, set it on the issue. Then decide how it goes out: keep it free, or set a price. You can also mark pages as a free preview so readers can sample before they buy. Free is a perfectly good way to start and build an audience.
5Go live, then share it
When the pages are ready, publish the issue. That flips it from your private workspace to your public series page, where readers can open it. The moment it goes live, an in-app Share sheet pops up, and a Share button sits by the live badge, so you can send it to your audience in a couple of taps.
Publish-day checklist
Walk it top to bottom and you will have a live comic. Each links straight to the app. Saved on this device.
Quick questions
Both work. Upload finished pages, or use the built-in Draw studio on any page to draw and letter without leaving the site. You can mix the two.
Upload your page art files and arrange them in the grid. FoundryInk handles a gentle scan-fix for scanned art (which you can turn off), and keeps your original untouched.
Yes. Free is a great way to start. You can also set a price, and offer a few free preview pages so readers can sample the issue first.
Yes. Re-upload the page (the old version is kept in Version history) and republish. Publishing is reversible, so you can keep polishing.
On your public series page, and, if your studio is Listed, in Browse and discovery so new readers can find it.
Your comic is live!
You took it from a blank project to a published issue readers can open and share. Next up: turn those readers into support, with tips, subscriptions, and more.