Comic templates to print
A 4-panel comic strip to print
Four boxes in a row is the oldest trick in comics. Box one says who and where. Box two, something happens. Box three, it gets worse. Box four is the funny bit. You get two strips on one page.
A free printable 4-panel comic strip template: two strips of four panels on one sideways page, with a title line. Letter or A4, black on white. Free, nothing to sign up for, and nothing you draw ever leaves the paper.
How to use it
- Print the page sideways, at 100% size.
- Write a title on the line, and your name after By.
- Draw who and where in panel 1, the problem in panels 2 and 3, and the surprise in panel 4.
- Add speech bubbles last, so they don't cover a face.
Peabody's tips
- Keep the same character in all four panels, so a reader can follow them.
- A strip with no words at all is allowed. Faces can tell the whole joke.
- Make the last panel the one you're proudest of: that's where the laugh lives.
Printing it right
Pick the button for your paper. In the print box, keep the size at 100% (sometimes called “Actual size”), not “Fit to page”, so the panels come out the size they were drawn. The page is black lines on white, so a black-and-white printer is all you need, and it uses very little ink. Every line sits at least 0.4 inches from the edge, inside the part of the page that home printers can reach.
More comic templates
- 6-panel comic page
- Blank page, 4 big panels
- Blank page, 9 panels
- 8-page mini comic
- Storyboard, 6 panels
- Bubble cut-outs
All seven are on the comic templates page. Want a page with a story idea at the top? The Comic Page Maker makes one in three taps.