Publish “All My Heroes” — or YOUR HEROES Comics
A magazine about it, with their name on the cover. Your kid takes the thing they already know most about — dinosaurs, sharks, one football club, whatever it is — decides what goes in the issue, and then directs the pages: the AI draws and lays them out, and your kid rewrites, redraws and reorders until it reads right. They finish with a published issue they can flip through, and the next issue is the same obsession from a new angle.
What your kid actually makes
A published issue about the subject they already know most about, with a cover, credits, an issue number and their pen name on it, read in a flipbook. The subject is theirs to pick. Issues collect in their portfolio as a back catalog you can read through together, and by month three a kid can have around a dozen of them.
How a sitting goes
The first issue is built to finish in one sitting. Your kid picks the subject and the look — comic, manga, indie zine or classic newspaper strip, chosen once and held across the series. A partner helps them shape the issue into a beginning, a middle and a payoff, so it lands as something to read rather than a pile of facts. The issue then comes back as rough thumbnail pages, which they re-roll until the flow works, and only then does the real art render. That is when your kid edits: redraw a panel, rewrite a line, reorder the pages. Then it publishes. Later issues run weekly.
What AI does — and what your kid does
Your kid is editor-in-chief. The subject, what goes in the issue, what stays and what gets redone are all their calls. The AI draws and lays out and redraws whenever asked; it never picks the subject and it never overrules your kid. When it hands a page back, the question is always what they want changed.
What they're really learning
The difference between knowing a lot about something and being able to explain it. A kid who can recite two hundred dinosaur facts has to choose which six matter, what order they go in, and how to end — which is editing, and it is the part school rarely asks for. They also get to be the expert in the room, which is a rarer feeling than it should be.
Good to know
- No drawing skill needed. Your kid describes what they want and edits what comes back.
- This one works best when your kid already has an obsession they will not stop talking about — that is the fuel.
- You approve your kid's pen name before the first issue publishes.
- Ages
- 6–13
- How long it takes
- A few sittings
- They walk away with
- a magazine about the heroes you create
There are two kinds of projects for kids. The first kind ends on the fridge door. The second kind ends as a real thing other kids can read, watch, or play: a magazine, a game, a film, an episode. Kubrio makes the second kind. Kids make them by directing the same AI the pros use.
Skills kids build
Your kid can start this one today.
Start the membership — a project a week for each kid, with three AI thinking partners in every project and Claire, your family’s AI learning coach.
$29 a week to make.
Playing, watching, reading, and listening are free.
Seven days to change your mind — one click, full refund.