Re-lettering every language
Every translation meant another file, another set of balloons and another round of fixes. Touch up the art, and you did it all again.
KOMA / THE COMPLETE CREATIVE STUDIO / IN DEVELOPMENT
DRAW IT ONCE.
SHIP IT
EVERYWHERE.
One studio for the whole comic. Draw, ink, finish and letter, then translate, print and deliver every edition from a single book.
Run!ENGLISH
逃げろ！JAPANESE
도망쳐!KOREAN
Same panel. Same art. Three editions in one book.
FORMAT STUDY / CONCEPT — NOT APP UI
THE CREATOR BRIEF / 2026SCROLL TO EXPLORE
DRAW/INK/COLOR/LETTER/TRANSLATE/REVIEW/PRINT/DELIVER
00EARLY DEVELOPMENT SCREENSHOT
THE STUDIO.
TAKING SHAPE.
INSIDE KOMAFORGE / NOVEMBER 2026
An early look at the actual workspace: page art, balloons, drawing tools, layers and export controls, all together in one place.
BUILD CAPTURE / WORK IN PROGRESS2048 × 1323 PX
VIEW ORIGINAL 01THE PART NOBODY POSTS ABOUT
FINISHING THE ART
USED TO BE THE
HALFWAY POINT.
KomaForge is built so each of those becomes a quick review, not a week of rework.
Rebuilding files for every platform
A different width, slice height, layer layout and naming scheme for every platform and buyer. Same episode, rebuilt over and over.
Re-fitting pages for print
Magazine size to volume size, volume to trade paperback. Spine math, bleed, cover wraps and gutters, every time, by hand.
02LETTERING
BALLOONS
THAT LETTER
WITH YOU.
Type, and the balloon reshapes around your words as you go. Lines wrap into the natural lozenge shape letterers build by hand, tails stay pinned to whoever is talking, and changing your Shout style once updates every shout in the book.
Merge, join and link balloons, then pull them apart again. Stack strokes and fills on captions and SFX. Set type on a path, warp it, and keep it live.
BALLOON STYLES /
DialogueWhisperShoutThoughtRadioRobotBurstDouble outline
LIVE LETTERING / BALLOON 03✳
BEFORE
Wait!
AFTER YOU KEEP TYPING
Wait! You left the door to the old lighthouse open
THE WORDS CHANGE.THE BALLOON FOLLOWS.
03LOCALIZATION
ONE BOOK.
EVERY
LANGUAGE.
Your art is shared. Each edition keeps its own text, balloon sizes, fonts and sound effects. Redraw a face once and every edition gets it. Change an English line and its translations are flagged straight away, so nothing ships stale.
Vertical Japanese with ruby, proper Korean and Chinese line breaks, a font for every character's voice in every language, and a choice per sound effect: keep it, overlay it or redraw it.
PAGE 12, BALLOON 3 3 EDITIONS
EnglishApproved
JapaneseLettered
KoreanNeeds update
The English line changed after this was lettered.
04PRODUCTION
EVERYTHING AFTER
THE LAST INK STROKE.
01 / 08PRODUCTION SYSTEM
Print without the math
Pick a trim size and binding. Spine width updates as your page count changes, the cover wrap sizes itself, and black lettering overprints automatically. A final check catches problems before the printer does.
PRE-FLIGHT / TRADE 6×904 CHECKS
Bleed and safe areaPASS
Page count fits the bindingPASS
Cover resolutionPASS
Balloon crosses the gutter on page 12REVIEW
02 / 08PRODUCTION SYSTEM
Resize the whole book
Turn a magazine chapter into a pocket volume, a trade paperback, a vertical-scroll webtoon or a panel-by-panel phone read, from the same pages. Panels reflow, balloons re-fit, and any tweak you make by hand stays put.
PRINT
→
WEBTOON
→
PHONE
03 / 08PRODUCTION SYSTEM
Deliver to every platform at once
Presets for each platform's width and slice height, and for each buyer's layer layout and file naming. Episodes come out sliced, named and checked, straight from your full-resolution master. Strips too tall for a PSD are split or saved as PSB, exactly the way each buyer asks.
04 / 08PRODUCTION SYSTEM
Works with the files you have
Open your CLIP and PSD projects. Export PSDs where type stays editable and layer styles and smart objects stay live. When a file comes back from a collaborator, their edits arrive as a change you can compare, accept or reject. Teammates can even keep saving from their usual app into a watched folder while you switch.
05 / 08PRODUCTION SYSTEM
Your editor, in the same file
Comments pinned to a single balloon, redlines that never print, side-by-side version compare and tracked text changes for every edition. Each specialist works on their own layers of the same page, and nothing goes to the printer without sign-off.
06 / 08PRODUCTION SYSTEM
Your series bible, built in
Names, places and invented words with the approved spelling for every language. Character voice notes and honorifics rules travel with the script, so proofing catches a misspelled name or a dropped honorific before your readers do.
07 / 08PRODUCTION SYSTEM
Proof it's yours
Every edit is recorded with where it came from, so you can show page by page exactly which work is your own.
08 / 08PRODUCTION SYSTEM
Built for big books
Designed to open 1,000-page volumes and 300,000-pixel webtoon strips one page at a time, and to save only what you changed.
04AOPEN FILES. OPEN WORKFLOWS.
YOUR WORK.
BOTH WAYS.
Import CLIP STUDIO PAINT and Adobe Photoshop files into KomaForge. Export back to those formats when your collaborators need them. Your existing work comes with you, and your next chapter stays yours.
IMPORT EXPORT
FILE TRANSFER / BOTH DIRECTIONS04A — 01
CLIP STUDIO PAINT.clip
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP.psd
IMPORTEXPORT
KomaForge
BRING WHAT YOU'VE MADE.KEEP WHAT YOU MAKE.
05AUTOMATION AND COMMAND LINE
YOUR WHOLE BOOK,
SCRIPTABLE.
Every button in KomaForge is also a command. Run it from a script, a batch file or a build server, on your own machine, even offline. Do the boring part once, then let it run while you draw.
# Bring in an existing project
$ comic import chapter-07.cmc --book ./my-series# See exactly what a batch of fixes will change, without changing anything
$ comic run ./my-series --commands fixes.jsonl --dry-run# Render any page, any size
$ comic render ./my-series --page 12 --scale 0.25 --out p12.png# Export the Japanese edition, print-ready
$ comic export ./my-series --edition ja --profile trade-6x9 --format pdfx4# Check every file before it goes out the door
$ comic validate ./deliveryNothing locked in the interface
The app and your scripts use the same commands, so anything you can click, you can automate.
Preview before it lands
Dry-run any batch and get the full list of changes plus a rendered preview before anything is saved.
A thousand edits, one undo
A batch applies all at once or not at all, and rolls back as a single step. Retries never apply twice.
Same input, same output
Runs are repeatable, so last month's export produces identical files today. Clear errors tell you what failed and what to try.
Whole books, overnight
Export every edition, slice every platform and check every package in one job with progress you can watch and cancel.
Do it once, replay forever
KomaForge spots the steps you repeat on every page and turns them into one-click recipes you can run from the app or the command line.
06HOW IT COMPARES
THREE GREAT TOOLS.
ONE STAGE EACH.
Today, drawing, finishing and lettering each live in a different app. KomaForge is built to carry the whole book from first sketch to final delivery.
YesPartialNo
Based on Clip Studio Paint 5.1, Photoshop 2026 and Illustrator 2026 as of November 2026. All product names are trademarks of their owners.
07DRAWING
AND YES, THE
DRAWING TOOLS
TOO.
Pressure- and tilt-aware pens and brushes. Vector inking you can erase right up to the nearest intersection. Perspective, speed-line and focus-line rulers. Panel borders you cut in a single stroke. Screentones with real dot control. Posable 3D figures for the angles you can't fake.
MADE FOR
MangaWebtoonUS comicsPrint volumesSolo creatorsFull studios
CREATIVITY DOESN'T BELONG TO ONE DEVICEYOUR STUDIO.
YOUR STUDIO.
WHEREVER YOU WORK.
Coming to Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, and Android.
Windows
Mac
Linux
iPad
Android
08JOIN THE CREATOR PILOT
BE ONE OF THE FIRST
TO FINISH A CHAPTER
IN IT.
We are building KomaForge alongside working creators and studios. Join the pilot, bring a real chapter, and help shape the tool you will finish it in.