@comicsgal
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Letterer Appreciation Day! Each September 1st — the birthday of legendary letterer Gaspar Saladino — we celebrate the vital contributions letterers make to the comic book industry!
@fantagraphics.bsky.social is holding a "We've Been Robbed!" flash sale this weekend to raise money to help pay their legal battle against JP Morgan Chase Bank & Diamond Comics Distributors. All items are offered at 30% off. If you can, please support them.
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Let's Keep Calling!
![Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:obalt57atoxc2zooldtuur75/bafkreifnjtvupzmkqg7cggiv2z5nckzpp5yd2sm7h5gg2kq3plbwv2btuy)
Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.
My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...
This is incredible
We are here to help each other get through this thing...whatever it is. - Kurt Vonnegut
UPDATE: HB1375, the Texas bill that, if enacted, will authorize filing lawsuits against comic shops for selling graphic novels that anyone finds objectionable, made the House calendar at the last minute.
Folks call your Senators now!! A ban on any state laws on GenAi for 10 YEARS is gonna do unthinkable harm!
For those of you wondering what to say here are two posts you can use to build your own script (use alt script to cut and paste)
Need to find your representatives? Here you go:
5calls.org
Update: the WaPo lost a cartoonist with *three* Pulitzers rather than let her make fun of Jeff Bezos.
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"I didn't realize you could go so deep!"
This week on Back Issue Bloodbath, Andrew and @obesacantavit.bsky.social discuss the artwork of Alitha Martinez and pick their favourite comics she's drawn!
geekhardshow.com/2025/02/back...
🧵 that made me happy today, so sharing.
(I really need to start reorganizing the library again.)
Definitely worth a read, especially since they interview Jeff Trexler from @cbldf.bsky.social. (Be sure to give them a follow.)
TL;DR: Surprise, surprise, costs to consumers are going to go up. 😡
an illustration of a mountainous green island surrounded by blue water, with a nice little lake in the middle
a pile of half-melted snow in a dirty parking lot - that is shaped exactly like the illustration of the mountainous green island surrounded by blue water, with a nice little lake in the middle
as the weather turns cold, remember: if you are designing a fictional island, try taking a few photos in the grocery store parking lot
Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States.
“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
All the plagiarists I've seen come and go over the years, everyone who was incensed over the tracing and stealing and lying these professionals did, only for a billionaire company to come along and prove that actually you can get away with anything if you have enough money!! IT'S THE FUTURE
Yes! Thank you ever so much.
Whoever protects black people and trans people first by banning bigots and transphobes IS GOING TO WIN THE WHOLE AUDIENCE
WHY IS THIS HARD
RUN THE BUSINESS PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14
Update on signing up: Twice since last writing, I tried signing up with Yahoo! again, and nada.
So I just tried used an alt gmail account I rarely use and it went through immediately. (I did not confirm the sub because, as I said, I rarely use that one.)
Do you mean yahoo is more aggressive or the emailer signup?
If the latter, I'll try again later one more time with it. Will wait just in case there's a flood trigger of any kind on the sign up script if the same addy keeps getting entered w/in a window of whatever time value might be set.
I've tried twice tonight with a yahoo addy and nada for either attempt--spam is also empty as can be.
Happy birthday, I wish you many cycles more.
Usually I don't do this, buuut decided to try this year.
Today is my birthday 🥳, so if someone gives me a repost as a present, I'd be grateful, thank you! 😌
Hey, I have a new radical idea!
How about we just...not be shitty to people online.
WHAT?? you might say, BUT WHAT IF I HATE THEM OR SOMETHING THEY SAID??
Then mute or block them. Report it if it's reportable.
Life is tough enough. Being shitty online is such a waste of time.
any of y'all defending billionaires in my mentions: they will never give a single flying fuck about any of us. you will never get within a thousand years of being able to lick their boots. knock it off and stop embarrassing yourself
If Glaze and Nightshade are snake oils that don't work, why is OpenAI calling them "abuse"?
Like if people are gonna steal my art I'd rather it be a shitty, inferior version. (Though ultimately I'd prefer they not steal.)
Sometimes I think tech-heads just don't Get It.
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING! From every one us at FLASH GORDON⚡️
