I hire artists. We work together and create comic books based on the stories and characters I create. That's closer to creating art but I'm no artist, and I respect them enough to acknowledge that.

You confused creativity with being spoon fed.

No one is preventing you from making art but yourself.

Asking AI to generate media for you is an of consumption, not creation. If you confused the two, even for a moment, then you know what it feels like to be robbed of your birthright as a human being.

Humans create art and in so doing we create ourselves. Don't let yourself be cheated.

If I commission a work of art, that doesn't make me an artist. It makes me someone who hired an artist.

If I do the same thing but delegate the creative act to an unthinking machine, that doesn't bring me closer to being ab artist, but further away. (Cultivating a craft would bring me closer.)

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I can't believe I haven't read Bone yet. It looks awesome and two different people told me my first comic "kinda reminded" them of Bone. You'd think that'd be enough.

Thanks for the reminder to finally check it out!

More infamy for me.

Yeah, I've been struggling to know what to call Imposter Syndrome minus success.

We could call it the Loeb-Jaffe Effect.

I think that's called Imposter Syndrome.

That's Hank Hill's butt.

AI?

That's okay. For a second I wondered if I had slipped into some cool alternate timeline.

Is that a prediction?

If I won an Ignatz, no one told me about it.

The eyes are a bit wide for anger, especially towards the bridge of the nose. Furled brows is all you need. 😠

He looks scared. I think that makes him look scary, vicariously.

You making these with AI?

Ash, by Daniel Loeb and Alessandro Saccotelli
ko-fi.com/DanLoeb/shop
Digital copies are FREE/PWYW to read, so check it out.

Set in late 16th century London, an Irish orphan struggles to survive and find meaning in a depraved world.

Issue 2 coming soon!

Thank you for the kind words. They mean a lot.

The music is Brad Mehldau's performance of Paranoid Android, by Radiohead, from his soundtrack to "Mon Chien Stupide". It's the second of the three renditions on that album.

Looks fantastic.