# Show HN: I made a comic series explaining Claude – Chat, Cowork, and Code > Source: > Published: 2026-08-19 04:51:40+00:00 **English** · [Deutsch](/Fake4d/claude-school/blob/main/README.de.md) Guides to Claude — **three comics that build on one another**, plus a complete command reference and a hands-on guide to setting up your own server assistant. Every guide comes in **English and German**, each as a PDF and as a single HTML file, both self-contained (fonts embedded, no external files). The three comics follow one question: **how far do you let Claude at your things?** In the conversation everything passes through you. With the desktop app Claude works in your folders. In the terminal it works on the whole machine — and keeps running without you. | Guide | Length | Who for | |---|---|---| Claude in conversation as a comic | **Claude Cowork as a comic****Claude Code as a comic****Command reference****Your own AI server assistant** The German editions live next to them in the same folders; the [German README](/Fake4d/claude-school/blob/main/README.de.md) lists them. The **command reference** is not copied from the documentation but read straight out of the installed build: `claude --help` , the help of every subcommand, and the command definitions inside the program itself. As of version 2.1.235 — 62 options, 124 available slash commands, 5 present but switched off. A scheduled job keeps it current on every new release of the program. The **comics** are checked against Anthropic's official documentation rather than written from memory; the characters and diagrams are hand-written SVG. Both leave out topics that go stale quickly (prices, usage limits) on purpose. The **server guide** was followed step by step on a live server. It contains no real credentials — user name, IP address and mail account are placeholders to replace. The scripts in [ werkzeuge/](/Fake4d/claude-school/blob/main/werkzeuge) ("werkzeuge" = tools) reproduce the files above byte for byte. Python 3 only, no libraries; for printing you need Chromium (comics) or WeasyPrint (reference and server guide). ``` php cd werkzeuge/chat-comic && python3 build.py # -> both languages cd werkzeuge/befehlsreferenz && python3 build_ref.py cd werkzeuge/server-setup && python3 uebersetze.py ``` Note that the tooling itself is written in German — file names, comments and variable names. The published guides are not. There is deliberately **no second build script per language** — that would be the one copy which eventually falls behind. Instead the German edition is the source, and the English wording sits beside it in `texte_en.py` : **Command reference:**`texte_de.py` and`texte_en.py` carry the same keys;`build_ref.py` writes both editions in a single run.**Comics and server guide:**`i18n.py` swaps the content of every text element in the finished HTML for its entry in`texte_en.py` . Layout, artwork and commands are left untouched. The point of it is the completeness check: if a German text has no English counterpart, **the build stops** and names the missing sentence. So a changed German passage cannot quietly stay German. The comic pages have a fixed height and `overflow:hidden` — too much content is silently cut off when printing, with no error message. [ werkzeuge/qa-ueberlauf.py](/Fake4d/claude-school/blob/main/werkzeuge/qa-ueberlauf.py) measures, for every page, the distance from the outermost ink to all four edges of the sheet and reports what gets too tight. ``` python3 werkzeuge/qa-ueberlauf.py cowork-comic/cowork-anleitung.pdf ``` Exit code 1 on suspicion — so it can be hung into a publishing pipeline as a gate. That is exactly how it is used here: nothing gets published without passing. It works for any PDF with a fixed page size, not just these comics. The comics go back to an English Instagram comic by *okaashish* — characters and dramaturgy are borrowed, the content rewritten and brought up to August 2026. Fonts: *Patrick Hand* and *Caveat* (SIL Open Font License).