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More than a drawing can hold

Extra content: worksheets, talks and web pages, right on the panel

Some stories need more than art and balloons: a worksheet to print, an interview to listen to, a lecture video, a page of background, a map or a quiz from another website. In PanelWave these are layers on the panel — content widgets that readers use without leaving the story. Ideal for e-learning, B2B and non-fiction works, and for bonus material in any comic.

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Pencil sketch of a comic panel from a learning comic with small cards attached to it: a document to download, an audio waveform, a video still, a scrolling text and a tiny browser window with a quiz.
Fig. 6How it works
Fig. 6 — Extra contentContent widgets sit on the panel like any other layer. Readers download, read, listen, watch and click on without leaving the story.
content widgets
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theme for all of them
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cards in the printed PDF
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Parts listExtra content

In detail

What you get

01

Downloads

A worksheet, a checklist, a press kit: a card with file-type icon, name and size. PDF, Office, OpenDocument, text, ZIP and EPUB files.
02

Longer texts

A scroll-text box holds the background a balloon can't — plain or with headings, bold, lists and links, translated like every balloon.
03

Audio player

An interview, a lecture, a narration: play, pause and a waveform to click through. It never starts on its own and turns the music down while it plays.
04

Video in a window

A poster or a button on the panel; the video opens in a player window with seeking, mute and fullscreen. The panel's own sounds pause meanwhile.
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Embedded web pages

A map, a quiz, a form or a simulation from another website, shown inside the panel — with an “Open in new tab” link as the fallback.
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One look for every widget

A widget theme gives all widgets of a work the same colours, fonts and corners. Start from dark, light, paper or high contrast.
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On paper, too

In the lettered PDF every widget becomes a card with a QR code that opens it in the online reader — and worksheets can be appended to the PDF.
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See what readers use

Downloads, plays and opened videos or pages are counted per widget, whenever the work's tracking settings allow it.

Workflow

  1. Step 01

    Add

    Right-click the panel → Add Content, or drag a document, audio file or video from your assets onto it.

  2. Step 02

    Fill

    Pick the file, write the text or paste the web address — in every language of the work.

  3. Step 03

    Style

    Set the widget theme once; every widget of the work follows.

  4. Step 04

    Publish

    Widgets work in the reader, in the preview, in self-hosted packages and — as QR cards — in print.

A worksheet download on a panel, in two languages (panelwave.json)
"layers": [
  { "id": "art", "kind": "image", "assetId": "img-lab" },
  {
    "id": "worksheet",
    "kind": "download",
    "assetId": "doc-worksheet-3",
    "x": 620, "y": 410, "width": 340, "height": 96,
    "fileName": { "en-US": "Worksheet 3.pdf", "de-DE": "Arbeitsblatt 3.pdf" },
    "description": { "en-US": "Print and fill in", "de-DE": "Ausdrucken und ausfüllen" }
  }
]
Who gainsCreators · publishers · readers

What it means for you

For creators

Bonus material where it belongs: the making-of commentary on the panel it talks about, the sketchbook PDF on the last page.

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For publishers

Learning comics, product training and onboarding stories with worksheets, videos and quizzes on the page — one work instead of a comic plus a course platform.

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For readers

Listen, download, read on — without leaving the story or hunting for a link.

See an example
NotesQuestions & documentation

Questions

Read the docs

Further readingFrom the blog

Pencil sketch of a comic page whose panels carry small cards — a worksheet, an audio waveform, a video still, a map and a quiz — linked by red arrows to a pupil, a trainee with headphones and a museum visitor with a tablet.

Product Updates

Extra Content: Worksheets, Talks and Quizzes Right on the Panel

One comic panel at the centre with four copies of it: high-contrast, read aloud as sound waves, with a keyboard focus outline, and blurred behind a content warning.

Technical

Accessibility by Default: What It Means for PanelWave

Pencil sketch of a few finished panel drawings being laid onto an empty two-page layout, with a small branch arrow.

Tutorials

Getting Started with PanelWave CMS

Every great story starts as a sketch.

Open the drawing board and start with your script, the smoothest way in, or with the art you already have: panel images, video clips or pages without lettering. Add balloons, shape the story, and see your first chapter running on a screen.

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