Comics is… An ionic theory We don’t get no respect over here!Historically, one of the biggest handicaps to Comics being treated as Art is the instant commercialisation of the form from the early days of mass media.(The very clever Allan Haverholm says in his Masters thesis: “the conditions under which comics were produced since their …
Dusty breadmAIkers: Polly(anna) put the kettle on and decided that AI was not a threat to Art (I mean, it is 100% a threat to Jobs like my own freelance work, I’m really not blasé about this ~ but AI is not going to replace artists or, I think, even supplant the Creative Industries when it …
AI should have sent a poet: another go at talking synthetic art So I went to a Comica talk on AI by Dave McKean (with sidebars from Iain Sinclair). McKean is always thoughtful and talked a lot of sense on how Machine Learning impacts the creation of images and how we think of Art and Creativity. …
Me, myself and AI: thirdsies on synthetic art I’m listening to the latest Comic Lab podcast and their guest, Kevin McShane asked the hosts if they’d ever use AI to complete their comic strips, if it was trained on just their work and would look like their hands.(sorry) The gist was something like “if you could …
Ay? Aye! second thoughts on synthetic art Four months only from my first thoughts (here) the future is still unclear ~ but isn’t it always? AI continues to develop. Commercial, Legal and Aesthetic responses to AI continue to spin their wheels. There are questions about ownership (can a company copyright AI generated material? If not, you …
Is that all there is? Let’s talk up Other Comics Recently, it’s seemed that every conversation I have with people ‘outside‘ of comics comes down to a well-intentioned attempt to treat me with the sort of ‘respect’ that assumes I make graphic novels ~ or maybe I draw a regular periodical they’ve heard of?But despite spending …
A.I. let go: are robots coming to take us away (ha ha)? What they want, I don’t know They’re all revved up and ready to go Today is 7th September, 2022. The date matters, because when we talk about A.I. Creative Engines we are behind the curve before we’ve finished speaking. Come back on …
PARAGONS: just a list of names There are people who are great at what they do. There are great people who do things in The World. The two are not always ~ not often, even ~ the same. This is a list of people who I believe did good things and made The World better …
Slabbed: did I just throw thousands of pounds away? (Part2) (see Part 1 here) I had a comic that I knew a lot of these Hot Keys Collectors would want, but my nostalgic connection was to the UK reprint in Mighty World of Marvel issue 198 where I first read the story. …
Slabbed: did I just throw thousands of pounds away? (Part1) I destroyed a valuable comic (or did I?) and then it became even more valuable (or did it?) If you don’t know what slabbing is, it may behoove you to read this blog first: SLABS: a very peculiar practice So… background… I grew up loving …