Who is your favorite Super Villain to watch getting beaten up? I think Batroc the leaper is always a good time.

It's fun doing my current XMen read and finding artist that I fell in love with during the krokoa era when they were doing event tie-ins and short story anthologies. Also X-Men: Serve and protect is pretty fun.

This. Like there absolutely will be people in public who see a trans person heading to the bathroom and follow them in, then claim they felt uncomfortable. It’s a 1000 dollar payday. Bathroom bounty hunting. The goal is to make it impossible for us to exist in public.

If games use gen AI at ANY stage of development: I don’t want it, and will likely never buy from that dev/studio going forward.

seeing a lot of speculation on what trump's real goal for this is and i think it's important to remember that he's incredibly dumb, cruel to his core, is incapable of long term planning, and has little to no impulse control

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Honestly, if you're not pissed off about these slop machines I don't understand you. The data theft, their data centers raising the prices of our electric bill hundreds of percentage points, the fact that the owner class wants to steal your livelihood away and replace you? Nothing? I don't get it.

Reminder. AI guys get one good faith response from me and then I start being mean. Frankly, you should know why AI is bad at this point and if you don't, fuck you weirdo.

The entirety of the cultural right can be summarised: "They told me not to shit in my underpants. This made me shit in my underpants."

Scruppleless thieves saying thief things as usual. At this point you're just scum if you use AI with everything we know. Fuck grammarly.

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer should be treated as collaborationist said this point.

You ever just collapse into a puddle of semi sentient, twitching, flesh after a long day at work?

This old thread is making the rounds again, so I reckoned I'd join in with some of mine (I've got a lot of art, but very few actual pages!): first, one of my favorite artists, a dear friend, and a fella from whom I learned a lot (including from this page), Brian Hurtt on the 6th Gun:

I'd rather have my brain emptied out of my nose with one of those ancient Egyptian brain scoop tools than use generative AI.

Guy at the comics shop asked me to describe our show. I said we’re like Costco. We cover a lot of stuff, you never know what you’ll find when you show up, and you’ll probably leave with something unexpected. Our membership is free though. 👇🏻 youtube.com/@cryptidcrea...

Same shit is about to happen to Oregon multiple ways. The more datacenters built, the more the rest of us will have to pay for their negative impacts. Get your butt to a city hall or etc and do whatever you can to stop it from happening in your back yard. Also, regulate Gen Ai.

I burned out. I overworked myself while producing Sneeze Psycho Fist when I was publishing weekly. I'm still really trying to recover and figure out what I want to do with my life. Because sometimes it really doesn't seem viable from a money standpoint. But, I love comics so I do it when I can.

People who make comics (or other freelance art work) as their fulltime job: how do you do it? How do you make it work, esp financially? People who make comics on the side while having a fulltime day-job: how do you do it without overworking and/or burning out?

I burned out. I overworked myself while producing Sneeze Psycho Fist when I was publishing weekly. I'm still really trying to recover and figure out what I want to do with my life. Because sometimes it really doesn't seem viable from a money standpoint. But, I love comics so I do it when I can.

Looking forward to the future where this mf dies and every right wing grifter attempts to get people fired for celebrating.

“Boingy! Boingy! Boingy!” Ink on backer board.

FLATS: Try flats for stuff like this. It tends to work better.

Opened up some slots for comics and pngtubers!

This is what you risk getting if you ask me a simple question

Okay it's Friday and I want to post a mood boost. I got the chance to contribute to a fashion zine and a I made a spread with Maru Kiru. I've never done anything like this and I love it so much, so glad to get the chance to step outside the box and try something new :D

did you see this update?

Just spoke with the folks over at @globalcomix.com A few takeaways. GenAI backgrounds will be allowed as well as the translation tool is moving forward. I am boycotting GC until these policies are changed More info down below. #art #boycottGC #OC

also, my understanding is that the US senate will be voting on the SAVE ACT/ SAVE AMERICA ACT -TOMORROW- (saturday the 20th) so PLEASE call and yell at your reps about that one specifically literally right now

"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January

stop getting mad at your peers, they're in pain too we all chose pain 🤣

you won't be part of every collective groups might reject you, and not every creative circle will be right for you you probably won't make a liveable wage but you're still a webcomic artist

we are small and many and we are all very tired and big money wants to monetize us while paying us very little that's a community right there

why are people talking about webcomics not being an open community webcomics are open to everyone, come in and feel the pain 1000 different kinds of pain

"we're 'not allowing AI anynore' except for all these ways we DO ALLOW IT!" Is this even a half measure?

Despicable. If you have respect for yourself and your work, get off Globalcomix.

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

I think my record is clear when it comes to my deep loathing for AI, but to bring the hammer down on a young author of color over allegations she used it while white authors get puff piece interviews about open usage and skate on through their careers is grossly prejudicial.

Welp, here we go. Been expecting this to happen soon.

"If AI slop can get a publishing deal so can you" I say to myself in the mirror.

live your life in such a way that your death is not celebrated

Everyone needs to push back against AIPAC's language here. Anti-Netanyahu candidates are not the same thing as anti-Israel candidates. Netanyahu has done what Trump has not even been able to do--make himself and his country interchangeable. This is so dangerous for multiple groups.

Sure, people should look at their phones less. Let yourself be bored while waiting in line and junk. But less screen time isn't gonna fix what's broken inside of you.

Everyone at Hachette involved with that AI book reaching print shouldn't be working in publishing.

I recently had a website made and am kicking things off with my sci-fi short story about androids, friendship, consciousness and what it means to be human Check out Circuits and Wires:

and thought at the time they were doing just that. I encourage you to do your own research and make up your own minds. Personally, I feel a little bit defeated by it all with the unwanted surge of AI being forced on the industry and onto us a society. It all feels very icky.

I've already had multiple creators reach out saying they have taken down their comics and deleted their profiles. Full disclosure, I've never had a bad interaction with anyone at Global and I wrote review articles for the site a few years ago because I believed in elevating small creators (6/)

While clearly responding as a company to the global market demand is a good thing with the acquisition of INKR, this pivot towards embracing AI investment and technologies seems to be a slap in the face to the core small US based creator that they relied upon at the beginning. (5/)

Henrik Rydberg was elevated to CEO who in the Forbes article describes Global’s new approach as becoming the “Figma for comics.” Self described as a collaborative web application, if you go to their website what I see is "prompt" which tells me AI. (4/) www.figma.com

Cohen is also a prolific political donor often shifting between parties to maximize the benefits to his hedge fund operation and donated $1 million to Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration committee. www.foxbusiness.com/politics/bil...