20 comic and graphic novel ideas you can turn into a KDP book
Here are 20 original comic, graphic novel and manga ideas for Amazon KDP, for young readers through adults. Each is a one-sentence premise that names the audience and the genre: full-color comics with 4 to 6 panels a page, or black-and-white manga with screentone shading. “Start this book” opens kdpbook.io with it typed in.
By kdpbook.io editorialPublished
Comic & graphic novel
Panels, speech bubbles and consistent characters.
- No. 1
“A comic for ages 8–12 about a girl and her grumpy robot who deliver packages across a floating city”
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“A graphic novel for adults about a night-shift baker who finds that the bakery’s old oven opens onto another century”
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“A comic for ages 6–9 about a team of garden insects who solve one backyard problem per chapter”
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“A comic about a retired masked hero who now runs a quiet bookshop and gets pulled back in by her former partner”
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“A slice-of-life comic about a family who opens a noodle stand at a winter night market”
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“A graphic novel adaptation of your own short story, with 4 to 6 panels a page and a splash page at the climax”
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“A comic for ages 10–14 about students who start a school newspaper and find out who keeps stealing the lunch trays”
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“A fantasy graphic novel about a young knight who is afraid of horses and has to cross the kingdom on foot”
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“A science fiction comic about two sisters who repair satellites in orbit and the strange signal one of them hears”
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“A funny comic collection about a cat who believes he runs the household, one short story per page”
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“A graphic memoir about learning to swim as an adult, told in short illustrated episodes”
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“A historical comic for ages 9–12 about a family traveling west on a wagon trail in the 1840s”
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Manga
Black-and-white manga with screentone shading.
- No. 13
“A black-and-white manga about a first-year high school student who joins the school’s struggling archery club”
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“A fantasy manga about an apprentice blacksmith who forges swords that remember their owners”
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“A cozy manga about a young woman who inherits her aunt’s tea shop in a mountain town”
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“A sports manga about a small-town girls’ soccer team preparing for the regional tournament”
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“A science fiction manga about a courier who rides a hover bike through a flooded future city”
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“A mystery manga set in a boarding school, where the photography club finds clues in its own photos”
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“A manga for ages 10–13 about a boy who can talk to the spirits of household objects”
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“A cooking manga about two rival chefs who have to run one food truck together for a summer”
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“Start this book” opens a new chat in kdpbook.io with the idea as your first message and its book type selected (you sign in or create a free account first). kdpbook replies with a plan (format, length, characters, art style) and shows a credit estimate before the book is generated. Planning-chat messages are metered: about 25 credits for the first one and about 8 after that. New accounts get 2,000 free credits once, with no card required.
3 ways to make an idea your own
- 01
Start from the characters.
Describe each main character in one line (hair, clothes, one detail). kdpbook draws a reference sheet for each one and reuses it on every page, so they stay recognizable from panel to panel.
- 02
Choose comic or manga early.
A comic is full color by default, with 4 to 6 panels a page and a splash page at key moments. A manga is black and white with screentone shading, 5 to 7 panels a page and an optional right-to-left reading order. The choice changes the art, the paper and the printing cost.
- 03
Keep the words out of the art.
Speech balloons, captions and sound effects are set as text over the art, never painted into it, so the lettering stays sharp and you can rewrite a line in the editor.
Before you publish
- Declare AI-generated content. KDP requires you to tell it about AI-generated text, images or translations when you publish a book, or edit and republish it. Content you wrote yourself and only edited with AI tools counts as AI-assisted and needs no disclosure. The listing sheet kdpbook exports suggests the answers from what was actually generated.
- Make sure you own what is inside. KDP asks publishers to make sure their books don’t violate copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other rights, and it doesn’t allow undifferentiated versions of public-domain titles when a free version is already in its store. Leave out famous characters and brands, and add something new when you retell an old tale.
- Keep the listing honest. KDP’s keyword rules exclude brands you aren’t authorized to use and the names of authors not associated with your book, and its content rules exclude descriptions that don’t match what is inside.
- Read every page. KDP reviews every book itself, so no tool can promise that a book is accepted, sells or earns anything. You are the publisher: check the text, the pictures and the facts before you click Publish.
You can use, change and combine these ideas for your own books, with or without kdpbook. In the United States, copyright never protects an idea as such (17 U.S.C. § 102(b)); the Copyright Office explains that protection extends only to the original expression in a work, not to the idea underneath. This is general information, not legal advice.
Sources · read on
- KDP Help: Content Guidelines (AI-generated content) (opens in a new tab)
- KDP Help: Keywords (opens in a new tab)
- U.S. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 102(b) (opens in a new tab)
- U.S. Copyright Office: Works Not Protected by Copyright (Circular 33) (opens in a new tab)
The ideas are original and written for kdpbook.io; they are not ranked and come with no sales or demand data. Kindle Direct Publishing and KDP are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc.; kdpbook.io is independent and not affiliated with Amazon.
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