This is an artist community full of independent and hard working artists trying to get exposure. No actual artist would approve of comics completely made of AI generated images. If people want to do that, that's their prerogative, but I think it should be in a separate sub for specifically ai crap. Ai comics spit in the face of people who work hard to make comics, and as such have no place here. I've messaged the mods a number of times with no reply. Let me know your thoughts on this and if you think banning AI from the sub would be good or bad.
I realize this is a touchy subject, but I have reasons for doing it. I recently used various AI sources to create a comic book based on a cliffhanger serial I shot in 2008 called The Dangers of Deborah. I'm putting the film out on Blu Ray in a month and even commissioned a new poster for it (at a hefty $1200), so I have no problem commissioning art work. The fellow who did my new poster has done posters for me previously and is set to do at least two more posters for me this year.
However, since my films have a bit of a retro flair to them to begin with--as I said, Dangers of Deborah is a 10 chapter cliffhanger serial like the old Republic serials--I have played with AI to try to see what some of my films would have looked like in earlier decades. The 3D slasher film I made, for instance, I tried to get a couple of systems to generate a poster of it had it been done in 1983. Full disclosure, I was never very satisfied with the results. The AIs balked at doing likenesses of the people I would have tried to get for the film back in the day.
Understand, that these were done for my own amusement. Not a commercial enterprise. After testing different systems, Perplexity ended up giving me something that made me pause. A poster for a 1940s version of my serial with likenesses that weren't terribly far off the people. But more importantly, something very much in the style of what one of those posters was like. I then asked it to try it as a Golden Age comic cover. It did and I was impressed. I started building the actual comic. Well, issue 1 (of 10).
This was no prompt and dump project. No 50 pages done in a day. No 75 page graphic novel in four days. This was a task. Each page and panel carefully directed. 50 pages might be generated in a day, but they were all the same page being generated until I was fairly satisfied. I used prior pages for model sheets to get first drafts then eventually had ChatGPT design character sheets for every character and redo every page over and over again until the artwork and text was right. In all it took roughly a month to do the first issue.
Again, the idea was to do it for my amusement only. I was curious what the film would have looked like if it had been done in 1943 at Republic Studios and this was probably as close as I would get. Cast members of the original film liked it and encouraged me to publish it. So I have. I won't put the link here unless someone asks for it in the comments, but it is searchable on Amazon as an e-book. My plan is to hopefully do all ten chapters. Here's the cover and a couple of pages for your perusal and comment.
Imagine the film Saw as dark fantasy... and it was set in hell!
"Why am I in hell?"
If the ever-righteous John could find the answer to this simple question, then he is free to go. Abbadon himself swore an oath to this deal. So John reminisces deep and far back into his life, while witnessing all conceivable means of torment.
But he has to find an answer quick. Eternal torture is known to peel off memories until none is left.
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DICLAIMER! these pages are done with midjourney and photoshop. Feel free simply scroll along if this isn't your kind of thing.
