Benjamin Hunting
@huntingbenjamin.bsky.social
Freelance writer (http://benjaminhunting.com), comic book creator (modeluncomic.com, http://code-45.com, deadaircomic.com). Read the first 4 pages of Dead Air (and subscribe to my newsletter) here: https://benjaminhunting.eo.page/1fvqj
A move that takes place where you're from.
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A move that takes place where you're from.
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Fuck dude this A.I. music is so good I am utterly alone there is no one speaking to me I am a corpse frozen in space
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Fuck dude this A.I. music is so good I am utterly alone there is no one speaking to me I am a corpse frozen in space
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
I have the internal component that makes the Nissan VC Turbo engine variable compression sitting on my desk.
What weird car thing do you inexplicably own that is not a car?
Me: DeLorean tool kit. (I do not own a DeLorean car.)
Me: DeLorean tool kit. (I do not own a DeLorean car.)
November 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I have the internal component that makes the Nissan VC Turbo engine variable compression sitting on my desk.
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to eat us
bro why tf do octopuses have beaks 😭
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
to eat us
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Just get the comic done?
No no no I don't think you understand.
This needs to be the best comic I've ever drawn actually.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
No no no I don't think you understand.
This needs to be the best comic I've ever drawn actually.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Just get the comic done?
No no no I don't think you understand.
This needs to be the best comic I've ever drawn actually.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
No no no I don't think you understand.
This needs to be the best comic I've ever drawn actually.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Nissan uses an awful lot of words here to explain that they can't move the Z at its curent price point.
"Nissan’s about to take a page out of Porsche’s playbook with the Z."
Here's Why Deeply Discounted Nissan Zs Are Going Away—Maybe for Good
If you want a cheap Nissan Z, buy one before they go build-to-order.
www.thedrive.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Nissan uses an awful lot of words here to explain that they can't move the Z at its curent price point.
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In the spirit of the holiday, I want to say how thankful I am that so many of our fans continue to support us. Creating an ongoing series is a privilege. I'm also thankful for the creator community. Here is a thread of a few of those I'm currently supporting. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
In the spirit of the holiday, I want to say how thankful I am that so many of our fans continue to support us. Creating an ongoing series is a privilege. I'm also thankful for the creator community. Here is a thread of a few of those I'm currently supporting. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
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Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow
Or, you know, they're crowdfunding.
one positive side effect of all of this is the new transparency. the only folks left either have family wealth, a well-employed spouse (no shame!), or they're below the poverty (level like me.) the subject matter that creators choose makes more sense with the additional context.
Older creators bellyaching about feeling left outside of the comics industry have a myopic misunderstanding of what changes have taken place over the past few decades. The industry didn’t push you out, any sort of real coherent structural functional industry at all, sadly ceased to exist
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Or, you know, they're crowdfunding.
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J'ai la meilleure job du monde.
November 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
J'ai la meilleure job du monde.
What I love about this image is that the horses are clearly there because of Shatner's passion for the equestrian arts, and it's his final Trek movie. Then, for Stewart's final Trek movie, Nemesis, we get the Argo dune buggy, which is also only there because of Stewart's passion for driving.
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
What I love about this image is that the horses are clearly there because of Shatner's passion for the equestrian arts, and it's his final Trek movie. Then, for Stewart's final Trek movie, Nemesis, we get the Argo dune buggy, which is also only there because of Stewart's passion for driving.
Good thing I switched to RAPTCHA, which asks me to finish a RZA lyric to prove I'm human.
The fun thing about the current Cloudflare outage? Any site or service that uses Cloudflare's CAPTCHA system doesn't work.
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Good thing I switched to RAPTCHA, which asks me to finish a RZA lyric to prove I'm human.
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One good way to test basically every headline about AI actually accomplishing something is to look into it at all.
Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales Chart. Only 2,500 downloads. Yawn.
This AI Song Just Went Number 1...FOR REAL
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGre...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGre...
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
One good way to test basically every headline about AI actually accomplishing something is to look into it at all.
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"All because they made one little mistake, Spike?"
No, because they're liars. I don't for a second believe that's a "placeholder graphic" left in accidentally. They're using genAI, not admitting to it, and something slipped past QA, as it inevitably eventually would.
No, because they're liars. I don't for a second believe that's a "placeholder graphic" left in accidentally. They're using genAI, not admitting to it, and something slipped past QA, as it inevitably eventually would.
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"All because they made one little mistake, Spike?"
No, because they're liars. I don't for a second believe that's a "placeholder graphic" left in accidentally. They're using genAI, not admitting to it, and something slipped past QA, as it inevitably eventually would.
No, because they're liars. I don't for a second believe that's a "placeholder graphic" left in accidentally. They're using genAI, not admitting to it, and something slipped past QA, as it inevitably eventually would.
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Sketch from the archives - First photo studies, lineart
Sketchbooks are fun!: cabfolio.com/field/zine/
Sketchbooks are fun!: cabfolio.com/field/zine/
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Sketch from the archives - First photo studies, lineart
Sketchbooks are fun!: cabfolio.com/field/zine/
Sketchbooks are fun!: cabfolio.com/field/zine/
About 500 packages a year for me via Kickstarter, since 2020. All original, long-form comics. It works if you work it!
With the discussion of long-form, creator owned being a hard sell right now. There is a place it can and is still thriving - Kickstarter. More and more creators are going there with the intent to serialize. Is it more work? Probably. I've mailed 1400 packages since June.
However...
However...
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
About 500 packages a year for me via Kickstarter, since 2020. All original, long-form comics. It works if you work it!
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Building sketches
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Building sketches
I just got an ad on YouTube trying to sell me on Korean-built attack submarines. The algorithm is making some major assumptions here.
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I just got an ad on YouTube trying to sell me on Korean-built attack submarines. The algorithm is making some major assumptions here.
Who else out there is ready to get nostalgic about FACTORY WORK with me?
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Who else out there is ready to get nostalgic about FACTORY WORK with me?
Would wear this, especially during winter hibernation season.
one thing that struck me on my recent rewatch is that the costuming and styling aesthetics for Chandrilans of all genders leaned hard towards "30s hollywood glamour with a strong dash of prewar Japan"
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Would wear this, especially during winter hibernation season.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM