Show HN: I made a comic series explaining Claude – Chat, Cowork, and Code

A developer released a comic series explaining Anthropic's Claude AI assistant, covering chat, coworking, and coding, with guides in English and German. The project includes a command reference generated from the installed build (version 2.1.235) listing 62 options and 124 slash commands, and a server setup guide tested on a live server. The comics are checked against Anthropic's official documentation and use hand-written SVG graphics.

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 .