Personalised gifts for a colleague or a friend: their life as a comic book

Why a comic book beats another card or mug

The card signed by the whole office, the group collection that turns into a gift voucher, the "World's Best Coworker" mug: they're nice for five minutes, then they end up in a drawer. A personalised comic book gives them something no shop can sell: their quirks, their catchphrases and the stories you still laugh about. Twenty-four A4 pages, with their face in every panel, and they are the star of the book.

It's also one of the easiest gifts for coworkers and friends to make, with no drawing or writing skills needed. You create it in about ten minutes by chatting with our AI scriptwriter, with no form to fill in: it asks the questions, you tell the stories, it writes the script.

Gift ideas for colleagues and friends, for every occasion

• A leaving gift for a colleague: their years on the team, the mug nobody else is allowed to touch, the fifteen-minute meeting that lasted two hours. A farewell gift to pass around at their goodbye party.
• Retirement gifts: a whole career told in chapters, from the very first day to the plans for what comes next, given by colleagues or by the family.
• Best friend gifts: your years of friendship, their ten-minute voice messages and the road trip where everything went wrong.
• 30th, 40th or 50th birthday gift ideas: a milestone birthday is the perfect excuse to look back, with a smile, on everything they've been through.
• A thank-you for the best man or the maid of honour: all the years you've known each other, told by the person who knows them best.
• Secret Santa and the office Christmas: a change from chocolates and novelty socks.

How it works, in 4 steps

1. Chat with our AI scriptwriter for about ten minutes: who the star is, your stories, the tone (gentle, teasing or cheeky) and the topics to leave out, so the book can be read aloud in front of the whole team.
2. Add their photo to create their character. Yours is optional: without it, you stay behind the scenes.
3. See the free preview: the cover and the first page, drawn with their face. You only order if you like it.
4. Check and approve: you get 10 free edits after ordering, before printing. The printed book is delivered 6 to 8 working days after you approve the pages, and there is also a PDF version.

The prices of the softcover, hardcover and PDF versions are on the book's page for your country. Giving it for Christmas? Order early for Christmas: see the delivery dates on the book page.

A group gift the whole team can sign

Nobody needs to crowd around the same screen. One person creates the comic book, gathers everyone's stories (a message in the group chat is enough) and tells them to our AI scriptwriter. The whole team or the whole group of friends can then sign the dedication. It's a good way to spend a group collection: one shared gift that is really about them, and that everyone helped to write.

An example: "Le Sifflet prend le large"

Our sample book, in French, is about Bernard, a PE teacher retiring after 30 years, given to him by the staff room. His habit of blowing his whistle when the coffee is ready became chapter 8, "Le sifflet et le café" (The whistle and the coffee). That's what the comic book does best: it turns a small habit everybody knows into a page people will talk about for years.