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A full changelog of everything added, improved, and fixed across BlankComic versions.

Current: v36.2
Latest release · 11 October 2026

36.2 — “Your work is safe”

This release is about never losing your comic, plus Bangla that looks right everywhere.

🛡️ No more overwritten saves ↩️ Undo for pages & size বাং Bangla file names & fonts 🖼️ Pictures follow panels
Changelog
36.2.0 "Your work is safe" MINOR 11 OCT 2026

This release is about never losing your comic, plus Bangla that looks right everywhere.

🛡️Your work is safe

  • Two tabs can no longer erase each other. If the same comic is open in two tabs and one tab saves, the other tab doesn't overwrite it. Instead, it pauses and asks which version to keep. A tab you weren't using quietly shows the newer version when you come back to it.
  • A saved comic that can't be opened is kept, not replaced. Before, a blank page could be saved over it. Now it's set aside, and the message lets you download it. If the browser can't read its storage at all, autosave stays off for that visit.
  • Opening a file asks first if you have work open, and offers to save a copy. After opening, Undo in the message brings back the comic you had.
  • Damaged project files can't half-load.
    • A file is checked before anything changes.
    • Missing parts get safe defaults.
    • A file with no readable pages is refused, and your current comic stays exactly as it was.
  • Undo now covers more changes.
    • Changing the page size or margins can be undone, and your earlier undo steps are kept. Before, these changes erased all undo history.
    • Adding, duplicating, moving and deleting pages can be undone with Ctrl/⌘ Z.
    • Each page keeps up to 100 undo steps (was 60).
  • The browser is asked to keep BlankComic's saved data when space runs low.
  • After 20 minutes of work, a gentle reminder suggests saving a project file. Browsers can clear saved data, so a file is the real backup.

💾Saving and downloading

  • File names keep Bangla, Arabic, accents and emoji. Only characters that file systems forbid are removed. Before, a Bangla-named comic downloaded as "comic".
  • Big projects save reliably. The project file uses a fraction of the memory it used to, and the file format is unchanged. If a save still fails, a message tells you.
  • Very large pages download safely. If a page is too big for 300 DPI on your device, you get the sharpest picture your device can make, and the message tells you the DPI. On iPhone and iPad, this keeps the image under Safari's size limit.
  • A clear message when you're offline. If the PDF or ZIP maker can't load, the message explains why and lists what still works offline.

বাংBangla

  • Bangla text looks the same on every device and in your downloads. Every font falls back to Noto Sans Bengali. The Bangla font only downloads when you actually type Bangla.
  • A new font choice, "Noto Sans Bengali — বাংলা", for bubbles and text.

🖼️Pictures and panels

  • A picture moves with its panel. When you move a panel, the picture inside goes with it. When you resize it, a picture that fills the panel keeps filling it.
  • A panel with a picture can be grabbed by its middle handle again. The picture used to cover the handle.
  • Margins and page size move everything together. Bubbles, text, pictures and drawings stay on their panel.
  • Fill / Fit panel works right after reopening a project. It no longer shows "done" when nothing happened.
  • Pictures no longer flicker when you select them or zoom.

✏️Drawing and resizing

  • Pausing while you draw straightens only lines that are already nearly straight. Curves stay curves.
  • Zooming a page with lots of drawing is smoother. The drawing is redrawn sharp once you stop zooming.
  • With a mouse or trackpad, bubbles, text boxes and pictures resize from their left corners too. Touch screens are unchanged.
36.1.0 "Feels right in your hands" MINOR 11 OCT 2026

This release fixes everything that could get in your way while working: keys, zoom, fingers, and words that went missing or spilled out.

⌨️Keyboard

  • Shortcuts work in any keyboard language. With Bangla, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Hebrew or any other layout, B, H, Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+S and the other shortcuts go by the key's position.
  • Holding a key down does an action once. Before, holding H split a panel again and again, and holding Delete removed panel after panel. Arrows (nudge), Undo, Redo and zoom still repeat.
  • Ctrl/⌘ S and Ctrl/⌘ E work while you type in a bubble or text box. The browser's own "Save page as…" no longer opens.
  • Ctrl/⌘ + and − zoom the page, and Ctrl/⌘ 0 fits it. Before, they zoomed the whole browser.
  • In the Pages column, holding Delete on a page deletes one page.

🔍Zoom

  • Trackpad pinch and Ctrl/⌘ + scroll are smooth. They zoom by how far you pinch, around your pointer, anywhere over the page area. This includes Safari on a Mac. Before, one pinch could jump straight to 300%.
  • The + and − buttons go in round 10% steps and keep the middle of your view where it is.
  • The zoom box:
    • "150" or "150%" means 150%.
    • "5" means 5%, which becomes 10%, the lowest zoom. It used to mean 500%.
    • "1.5" or "1.5x" means 150%.
  • A zoomed page stays laid out properly.
    • The rulers match the page.
    • Opening the drawer or resizing the window keeps the page centred.
    • Your zoom stays until you press Fit.

📱Phones and tablets

  • A pinch never selects or deselects a panel, and never pops up a panel's tools over your page. A tap now selects when your finger lifts.
  • Pinch zooms around the point between your fingers. If you lift one finger, the other keeps moving the page.
  • One finger moves a zoomed-in page.
  • Double-tap means two taps in the same spot. Two quick taps in different places no longer reset your zoom.
  • In Draw, a two-finger tap undoes only if both fingers land together, both lift quickly, and neither moves. A pinch that stops early no longer undoes. If you undo by accident, the message offers Redo.
  • Drags end cleanly. An edge swipe, a call or a notification no longer leaves a bubble stuck to your next touch. A second finger can't drag a bubble, a text box or a picture.

📝Words

  • Every keystroke is saved straight away. Save, Download and closing the tab always include your last word.
  • Bubbles grow to fit their words and never spill out.
    • A bubble grows away from its tail, so the tail keeps pointing at the speaker.
    • It shrinks back to its size before you started typing, never smaller, when you delete words.
    • A bigger font grows it too.
    • Its resize corner stops at the size of the words.
  • Bubble text wraps the same on screen and in the downloaded file at every zoom.
  • Paste and drop add plain text. Colours and fonts copied from a web page or Word no longer come along. Bold, italic and underline from the keyboard or the phone's text menu are ignored, because the downloaded file can't show them.

📐Panels, pages and sizes

  • Clicks follow the panel's shape.
    • The empty corners beside an oval, diamond, star or triangle count as paper.
    • Where panels overlap, you get the one you can see.
    • Line panels respond near the line.
  • Too-thin panels don't split. A panel that would split into slivers stays whole, and a message says why.
  • Bubbles, text boxes and pictures stay within reach. You can drag one only until its middle reaches the edge of the page.
  • The Webtoon page is now 800 × 1280 px, the size of one WEBTOON CANVAS upload image at 72 DPI. Pages you already made keep their size.

🐞Fixes

  • After a message with Undo disappeared, an invisible Undo button stayed over the phone's Draw tab.
  • On computers, the floating panel bar didn't follow its panel while a zoomed page scrolled.
  • On tablets, pinching and moving the page in Draw didn't scroll it.
  • After Fit, a page that had been zoomed in could still be scrolled off-centre.
36.0.0 "One editor, every screen" MAJOR 11 OCT 2026

Start a comic on your phone in the morning, carry on with your tablet at lunch, and finish it on your computer at night. The tools, their names, their order and how they behave now match on all three. We checked this by building the same comic on a phone, a tablet (upright and sideways) and a computer, each using only its own buttons. All four saved files came out identical.

🔁Works the same everywhere

  • Tap or click a bubble or text box to select it, then tap or click it again to type. This works the same with a mouse, a finger or a pen. With a mouse, double-click still selects all the words.
  • Empty text boxes say "Type here…" so you know where to type.
  • Double-click is always safe. Double-click a panel to open its options; it no longer splits the panel. Double-click any part of the page outside a panel to fit the page to your screen.
  • Your first panel is one tap away. On an empty page, tap or click the + to add a panel.
  • One colour palette. Phones, tablets and computers share the same 14 colours. On a computer or tablet, click a colour field to open the palette. It has None for text background, outline and shadow, plus Any colour… for everything else. With a keyboard, use the arrow keys and Enter to pick, and Esc to close.
  • Hints use your words. They say "Click" when you use a mouse and "Tap" when you use a touch screen.

📲Tablets

  • Touch mode. Tablets keep the full desktop layout (the tool bar on the left, the drawers and the Pages column), but every button, slider and colour is sized for a fingertip (at least 44 px). Laptops with a mouse keep the compact size. Nothing needs switching on.
  • Camera and Share. The Picture drawer has a Camera button. When you download a PNG or JPG, you can Share it straight to other apps, the same as on a phone (where the browser supports sharing).
  • No floating bar on the page. It could cover the next panel. Everything it did is in the drawer.
  • Room for your project's name. When an upright tablet has saved your work, it shows a green dot instead of the word "Saved".
  • Page menu always visible. The ⋯ on every page thumbnail shows all the time, because a touch screen has no hover.

📱Phones

  • Page settings now has everything the computer has:
    • Margins, with presets for Comic, Wide, Manga and Tight
    • Fill for every panel
    • Border: colour, plus solid, dashed or dotted
    • Safe zone and Bleed guides for printing
  • Reset a panel. One tap puts a panel back to the page's style.
  • Turned sideways:
    • Every header button is a full fingertip size.
    • The Pages sheet shows your page and both of its buttons without scrolling.
    • Change layout and Page settings stay pinned at the bottom of a long page list.

🖥️Computers

  • Draw opacity presets (25 · 50 · 75 · 100 %), the same as on phones.
  • Clearer margin names: Comic, Wide, Manga, Tight. The old "Bleed" preset was easy to confuse with print bleed.
  • The hint next to the page now includes P for Picture: B bubble · E text · P picture · D draw.
  • Help, the FAQ and the keyboard shortcuts explain the new "click it again to type" rule.

🐞Fixes

  • The menu showed an old version number (v26). It now shows the real one.
  • On a phone turned sideways, many header buttons were 1 px smaller than a fingertip target.
  • On a phone turned sideways, the Pages sheet could push its buttons off the screen.

🔒Privacy

  • We added Microsoft Clarity, a usage analytics tool, so we can see which tools are hard to find. It loads in the background, so it doesn't hold up the editor. Your comic, its name and any picture you crop are always masked: the recordings never show your words or your pictures. Your work stays in your browser.

#About version numbers

From version 36.0, BlankComic uses one version number in the form MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, with a build date.

PartGoes up when…Example
MAJORthe way you work changes36.0.0
MINORnew features arrive and nothing you know changes36.1.0
PATCHsomething is fixed36.1.1

The menu shows the short version (v36.2). The full number and build date are in the page's structured data and in window.BlankComic for support.

Earlier release · v1.0 “First Panel” MAY 2025
  • Initial release. BlankComic went live as a free, browser-based comic panel creator.
  • Panel layout engine. Drag, resize, and split panels freely across the canvas.
  • Speech bubbles. Multiple styles: round, jagged, thought clouds, whisper, and more.
  • Text & captions. Narration boxes and sound effects with comic-style font support.
  • Character library. Save and reuse character color palettes across your pages.
  • Multi-page support. Manage full comic issues with the page strip panel.
  • Export. PNG, PDF, or SVG at print-ready resolution.
  • Autosave. All work is automatically saved to browser IndexedDB.
  • Light & dark mode, mobile support, keyboard shortcuts, rulers & guides, undo / redo.
  • Project files. Save and load your project as a .blank file.
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