Printable Graph Paper

Comic Strip Template

Six blank panels in three rows of two with a title strip across the top, each with room for a drawing and a speech bubble.

8.5 × 11.0 in · 215.9 × 279.4 mm
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What Comic Strip Template looks like

  1. The finished sheet

    Comic Strip Template on US Letter, exactly as it prints.

    Comic Strip Template on US Letter, printable example sheet

Panels first, then the story

A comic reads in rows, left to right and top to bottom, so a grid of equal panels is the easiest page to plan a strip on. Three rows of two is the layout most classroom comic assignments use: enough panels for a beginning, a middle and an end, and big enough for a child to draw in.

Nothing is ruled inside the panels, so the lettering and speech bubbles go wherever the picture needs them. Change the rows and columns for a different layout — one row of four for a newspaper-style strip, or three by three for a full page of small panels.

Every sheet here is free, adjustable and prints at exact scale.

Questions

How many panels does the template have?

Six — three rows of two. You can set one to six rows and one to four columns, so a four-panel strip or a nine-panel page is two changes away.

Can I make the panels square or widescreen?

Yes. Frame shape switches between 4:3, 16:9, 2.39:1 and square, and the panels resize to fit the page.

Is there room for captions under each panel?

Not by default, because comics carry their words inside the panel. Raise Note lines to add up to six ruled lines beneath every frame.