Comic 04

Uploaded August 20, 2026

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A comic artist condemns AI-generated art, briefly imagines using it to finish work and spend time with family, dismisses the idea as bullshit, then resumes drawing alone late at night.

Turns out the process described in the thought bubble doesn't work as reliably as I thought. I'm not going to remove this comic because my mistake is funny. In my defense, an LLM did make comic #3 based on the style of #2.

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Description

Panel 1: A furious comic artist gestures with both hands and shouts, ‘AI-generated art is destroying my livelihood!!’

Panel 2: His expression softens as he considers another possibility: ‘But wait… am I wrong?’

Thought sequence, panel 1: He photographs a drawing of a knight facing a dragon.

Thought sequence, panel 2: At a computer, he enters the prompt ‘Draw knight entering town in style of photo’ and selects ‘Generate.’

Thought sequence, panel 3: He looks at the generated image of a knight riding through a town.

Thought sequence, panel 4: He happily spends time playing a board game with his family.

Panel 3: He dismisses the idea, thinking, ‘Nah never mind—that's bullshit!’

Panel 4: Late at night, he sits alone at his desk and continues drawing by hand.

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