Kagemori Press · Edition I

The
Ink
Dragon

Over 150 panels of ink-wash and screentone. Then twenty-five pages of open frames — yours to fill.

Scroll
Interior page from The Ink Dragon: a boy sits before a scroll while an ink dragon leans in close.

Told in ink

The illustrations tell the story.

THE INK DRAGON is a complete manga in over 150 panels — a hero’s journey drawn in ink-wash and screentone. Haru grinds ink until an ancient dragon rises from it, and together they must face a masked thief wearing his old master’s face to recover the village’s sacred Seal Stone.

One hundred and twenty pages, sixty-one of them story. Twenty-three carry a caption; the other thirty-eight don’t.

A silent temple at midnight. A boy who cannot control his brush. Then the ink begins to move.
Interior page: the dragon coils above a mountain range under a full moon.
Interior page: the boy at his writing desk as the dragon rises from spilled ink.
Interior page: the masked thief confronted in the temple hall.
Interior page: the closing panel of the story.
Interior page: the opening panel of the story.

Interior pages, Edition I

The title splash page of The Ink Dragon: the dragon erupting from the ink over a temple floor.

The splash page · one of over 150

Then, the open frames

Twenty-five pages, and you draw the rest.

Bound in behind the story: twenty-five pages of open frames in twenty-two distinct layouts — splash pages, diagonal panels, four-panel action. Printed single-sided, so the ink stays on its own page — press as hard as you like and nothing reaches the drawing behind it. Matte, uncoated stock; pencil and colored pencil work best.

Don’t draw the dragon. Let it draw itself.
  • Pages120
  • Story150+ panels · ink-wash & screentone
  • Open frames25 pages · 22 layouts
  • PrintingSingle-sided — your ink stays on your page
  • PaperMatte, uncoated — pencil, colored pencil
Marketing graphic titled "Single Sided Blanks": an open story spread beside two open spreads of blank frames, noting pencil and colored pencil work best on the matte, uncoated paper.
Open-frame layout: three stacked frames.
Open-frame layout: two by two grid.
Open-frame layout: three by two grid.

Three of the twenty-two layouts

Marketing graphic showing the paperback cover beside an open spread of blank comic panel frames, labeled "Twenty-Five Pages of Open Frames."

Free

Ten pages, printable.

A ten-page set of the open frames, free to print, at kagemoripress.com/premium. A short, optional question about a heavier, marker-proof spiral edition sits alongside it.

The ten pages →

A six-panel page of open frames from the printable set.

Edition I

Paperback and hardcover.

Front cover of The Ink Dragon, paperback: an ink dragon erupts from a scroll as a robed apprentice recoils and a masked thief lunges with a blade in a wooden temple hall.

Paperback

ASIN B0H8PTFX14

120 pages. The story in over 150 panels, then twenty-five pages of open frames.

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Front cover art of The Ink Dragon, hardcover edition: an ink dragon erupts from a scroll as a robed apprentice recoils and a masked thief lunges with a blade in a wooden temple hall.

Hardcover

ASIN B0H8PDQRM3

The same book, cased in.

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