Duck Family Travel Comic

Goal: Create a warm children’s picture-book style 4-panel comic about a family of cute ducklings traveling internationally to reunite with their parent, using watercolor-and-colored-pencil textures on aged cream paper.

Canvas: Square 1:1 image, arranged as a 2×2 comic grid with thick hand-drawn black panel borders. Add colored pencil tips around the outer left and right edges like an art-table border. Use a cozy illustrated travel-journal look, detailed but soft, with visible paper grain, ink outlines, pastel colors, and expressive cartoon faces.

Main characters: Show exactly 4 duck family members throughout the story: 1 larger parent duck wearing a black leather jacket, white shirt, gold necklace, and carrying or standing near brown luggage; 1 young duckling with a red scarf and a small blue rolling suitcase with a teddy bear visible; 1 young duckling with a pink bow and pink dress holding a plush toy; and 1 second larger parent duck appearing in the final reunion panel. All ducks are fluffy white/yellow, with orange beaks and feet, rosy cheeks, and childlike rounded proportions.

Panel 1, top left: Title text in bold hand-lettered uppercase: “{argument name="first panel title" default="SHANGHAI TO TOKYO"}”. Under it, two label strips: “{argument name="first departure label" default="EARLY DEPARTURE"}” and “4:30 AM”. Night airport scene in Shanghai with a dark blue starry sky, runway, terminal windows, a plane, and the Shanghai skyline including a tall tower in the background. Add a dark airport sign with an airplane icon reading “SHANGHAI PVG → TOKYO NRT”. The leather-jacket parent walks with the two ducklings and luggage. Include exactly 3 speech bubbles in Chinese text: “出发啦，去东京!”, “好困啊...”, and “软萌萌”.

Panel 2, top right: Title text: “{argument name="second panel title" default="TOKYO, JAPAN"}”. Under it, two label strips: “(4-HOUR LAYOVER)” and “4 HOURS”. Interior airport waiting area with large windows, runway and airplane outside, blue seats, passengers in the background, and a duty-free shop on the right with a sign containing Japanese/Chinese-style characters above “DUTY FREE”. Add a dark airport sign with airplane icon reading “TOKYO NRT”. The leather-jacket parent sits with a coffee while the red-scarf duckling sleeps under a blue star-patterned blanket, with the pink-bow duckling nearby holding plush toys. Include exactly 2 speech bubbles: “Zzz...” and “软萌萌”.

Panel 3, bottom left: Title text: “{argument name="third panel title" default="CALGARY, CANADA"}”. Under it, two label strips: “(5-HOUR LAYOVER)” and “5 HOURS WAIT”. Airport lounge with large window view of snowy Rocky Mountains, pine forest, a plane on the runway, and a Canadian flag. Add a dark airport sign with airplane icon reading “CALGARY YYC”. The parent stands with orange rolling suitcase while both ducklings look exhausted or crying beside their blue suitcase and plush toys. Include exactly 1 speech bubble in Chinese: “旅程太长，好累呀...”.

Panel 4, bottom right: Title text: “{argument name="final panel title" default="REUNION IN HOUSTON!"}”. Add a label strip: “ARRIVALS”. Bright airport arrivals area in Houston with palm trees and city skyline visible through large windows. Add a dark airport sign with airplane icon and two lines: “HOUSTON IAH” and “ARRIVALS”. Show an emotional family reunion: the leather-jacket parent hugs the second larger parent duck, both smiling with happy tears, while the two ducklings gather around them with luggage and plush toys. Include a framed family photo on a small table at the right. Include exactly 2 speech bubbles in Chinese: “你们终于到了！想死你们了！” and “终于可以去睡觉了...”.

Text and style constraints: Keep all visible English titles and airport labels crisp and legible, preserve the Chinese speech bubble text exactly as written, use hand-lettered comic typography, no photorealism, no extra panels, no extra main characters, no watermark.