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    Comic Crafter - Illustrious - v2.0 (Baked In VAE)
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    🎨 ComicCrafter – The Ultimate Comic Book Style Generator 🦸‍♂️📚✨

    ComicCrafter is your all-in-one model for bold, dramatic, and stylized comic book visuals! Whether you're going for gritty noir vibes 🕵️‍♂️🖤, vibrant superhero panels 💥🦸‍♀️, or pulpy vintage pages 🔴🟡🟣—this model delivers the inked intensity of comic art like no other.


    ⚡ What It Does Best:

    ✅ Comic book line art
    ✅ Cel-shaded or bold inked color styles
    ✅ Superhero, villain, sci-fi, fantasy, noir, cyberpunk, and horror comic themes
    ✅ Stylized proportions, dramatic lighting, and expressive poses
    ✅ Works amazingly with panel layouts, halftones, speed lines, and speech bubbles


    🚫 What to Avoid:

    Do NOT prompt for realism, photorealism, hyperrealism, or cinematic lighting
    These styles break the model and result in lower-quality or corrupted outputs.
    💥 Stick to stylized, cartoonish, inked, or illustrative terms for best results.


    🧪 Works Great With:

    • LoRAs that support comic textures, halftones, or stylized anatomy

    • ControlNet for panel layout guides or comic-style speech bubbles

    • Prompt weights to exaggerate features like muscles, costumes, and expressions


    ✍️ Sample Prompt:

    a cyberpunk superhero with glowing eyes, cel-shaded, comic style, bold lines, inked, graphic novel

    Description

    Baked In VAE

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    Comments (12)

    JetlistiCJul 1, 2025· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    They are sleeping on this checkpoint!
    It's awesome!♥

    King_Hatchet
    Author
    Jul 22, 2025

    Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy it!

    McBob67Jul 21, 2025· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    Outstanding checkpoint - follows the prompt like a charm, so far I've found nothing this CP couldn't reproduce. Please keep on developing it.

    King_Hatchet
    Author
    Jul 22, 2025

    Thanks for the comment! I have some things working in the background, further developing this model is one of them. I'm glad you like it!

    McBob67Jul 22, 2025

    King_Hatchet You're very welcome. I was looking for a good model to create images for some written stories of mine (I can only draw stick figures), and this could be it. A question, if I may - any recommendation (LoRAs, or else) to generate a comic page structure, with panels? Thanks again.

    MirandoPaCuencaAug 27, 2025

    @McBob67 Danbooru has tags for this. Look at this page:
    https://danbooru.donmai.us/wiki_pages/4koma
    and the subsection 'See also'. I hope that's what you're looking for.

    McBob67Aug 28, 2025· 1 reaction

    @MirandoPaCuenca I'll check ASAP! Thanks a lot.

    9100737Jul 28, 2025
    CivitAI

    Can you make a model similar to this which can create characters from cartoon network shows, courage cowardly dog, agent chase from Linus et boom my giant friend cartoon, or Scooby doo characters , i want to a checkpoint where i dont have to load lora for each character, thanks in advance loving your model currently.

    civitai1111111Aug 11, 2025
    CivitAI

    If the VAE is baked in does that mean I should remove my current VAE?

    I think that would be logical as to not interupt things.

    King_Hatchet
    Author
    Aug 12, 2025

    I would

    baklazhanthik892753Dec 12, 2025
    CivitAI

    any plans for zit?

    King_Hatchet
    Author
    Dec 12, 2025· 1 reaction

    Im actually working on it. Not sure how long its going to take, but I am working on it.

    Checkpoint
    Illustrious

    Details

    Downloads
    769
    Platform
    CivitAI
    Platform Status
    Available
    Created
    5/10/2025
    Updated
    4/30/2026
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    Files

    comicCrafter_v20BakedInVAE.safetensors

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    Same model published on other platforms. May have additional downloads or version variants.