README.md

---
title: AiComicFactory2
emoji: 🦸
colorFrom: yellow
colorTo: green
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 5.39.0
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
short_description: Generate PDF comic books
---

## What is this?

This space is an app to generate comic books in PDF in a playful and easy way using AI.

It is designed to allow people having fun, without the technical constraint of manually typing text in speech bubbles etc. It is deliberately not designed for human-based manual editing.

## How can I use it?

The AiComicFactory2 is a standard Python/Gradio app that is free and open-source, but you need to have access to a GPU to run it. 

The easiest way is to run it directly from my space on Hugging Face using the ZeroGPU system, which allows you to benefit from a free quota that gets refilled regularly.

You can subscribe to a PRO account on Hugging Face to get higher usage quotas 🫶

### Running in local

Alternatively if you already own your own GPU, then you simply have to install the Gradio app and run it!

While the commands to use varies depending on wether you use a Python package manager and your version of python, the basic CLI workflow is usually like this:

```bash
# prerequisites not covered by this quickstart:
# you need a terminal, Python, Git and Git LFS

# Get the code using Git
git clone [email protected]:spaces/jbilcke-hf/AiComicFactory2

cd AiComicFactory2

# global install of dependencies
# the executable might be pip3 depending on your system
# but you should use a venv / package manager
pip install -r requirements.txt

# run the app (the executable might be python3, python3.12, python3.13 etc.. depending on your system)
python app.py
```