Comic Book Creator

https://huggingface.co/spaces/jbilcke-hf/ai-comic-factory

SDXL supported style

 style:comic book

style:Sticker

style:Neon Punk

style:Analog Film

style:Anime

style:Photographic

style:Cinematic

style:Isometric

Roop Stable Diffusion

Another chapter

The comics title is 'Coffee Please'

In the last article I posted the first 8 pages

here are the next pages

Another comics

 8 pages, for this new comics ... and this time there is a nice start and a possible story!

Making comics with canva

A while ago, I did a little experiment with canva 

and created a 3 pages comics using MidJourney

https://blogmymix.blogspot.com/2022/12/first-step-with-midjourney.html

Today, I wanted to try if I could do it again and here is the result

It must be super difficult to work in this office ...

First steps with Midjourney

https://www.midjourney.com/showcase/recent/

To get into Midjourney, I followed this nice video from PromptMuse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdE_h-xjMPs&t=50s

These settings are very important:

and Generated this 3 pages comics for fun on canva.com

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFVkcVC-j8/RlGDZRREcqybgkGryQSeIQ/view?utm_content=DAFVkcVC-j8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=homepage_design_menu

Nathan W. Pyle on the start of "Strange Planet"

@nathanwpylestrangeplanet  6.5M followers on Instagram 

The simple idea of questioning everything as we would be an alien looking at us (on Earth) and thinking 'why are they doing it this way? why are they living like this? why are these humans accepting this?'

Pretty fun, and brain tickling

Instagram top 5 comic artists

@nathanwpylestrangeplanet 1,368 posts 6.5M followers 1 following

@sarahandersencomics 601 posts 4.1M followers 523 following

@catanacomics 649 posts 3.4M followers 2 following

@cassandracalin 480 posts 2.6M followers 474 following

@explosmofficial 3,193 posts 1.9M followers 41 following

Looking for 'Out of space' issue #1 on the web

As an search practice, here is a little hands-on search training 

the goal is to find the 'golden comics' issue of "Out of this world" number 1 published in 1950

What we know about this issue is that it features the first appearance of Crom.

Go ...

Step 1: 

- google https://www.google.com/search?q=out%20of%20this%20world%20issue%201

will return a lot of information on the magazine itself

it was drawn partly by Joe Kubert

contains an adventure called 'Lunar Station' for 10 pages

but where is the comics itself?

Step 2:

- google https://www.google.com/search?q=out+of+this+world+issue+1+pdf+download

from there switch to https://digitalcomicmuseum.com 

Step 3:

From there we discover that there was another book called 'Out of this World adventures' but this one is not featuring Crom

and lower we found the comic

https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=12606

Bingo!

click on 'Preview" and Enjoy!

WALLY WOOD - 22 Panels That Always Work - Part 2

And there won't be a part 3 coming next, 

because the whole series has been posted 6 years ago, and they stopped (because of a career change) making these...

Comics: WALLY WOOD - 22 Panels That Always Work

The 22 Panels That Always Work, made originally by the great Wally Wood, it is very handy to have this around when drawing comics.

Big head, extreme close-up, back of the head, profile, contrasted panel, and big object.

'Ben Day' is known today as 'half tone'. 

"White Ben Day BG" means a mostly white Background made with Ben Day Dots, with a dark silhouette in the foreground. 

'Diagr.' refers to Diagramatic. it means drawing the characters as flat as possible. 

Best used sparingly, it provides a little variety and can be used to emphasize the body language and spatial relationships between two characters.

There is a part 2 - stay tuned

Amazing Instagram artists series: @rincityofficial

@rincityofficial

1,640 posts >> 147K followers >> 2,049 following

Las Vegas Model / SuicideGirl / Instagram Famous 

allmylinks.com/rincityofficial

Amazing Instagram artists series: @Sykosan 最高さん

Independent #animator and #illustrator. 🇫🇷🇬🇧
Check out Sykosan portfolio, #tutorials, Patreon etc.
#sykosan #2danimation

www.sykosan.com

As of today (2022-06-21)

• 288 posts
• 94.2K followers
• 841 following

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Amazing Instagram artists series: Sveta Shubina @sveta_has

Among the best contemporary artists you can find and follow on Instagram 

Artists who are considered 'legends' in their fields

Here is @sveta_has

Efficient drawing style

Old school effect, perfectly executed cartoon stylized pinup

Amazing Instagram artists series : Phil Noto

@philnoto

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Amazing Instagram artists : Adam Hugues

I am starting a series of post featuring some of the best contemporary artists you can find and follow on Instagram - Artists who are considered 'legends' in their fields

Here is the first one - Adam Hugues

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A post shared by AdamHughes (@atomhues)

- https://www.patreon.com/adamhughes

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Hughes

Spectacular drawing skills, amazing eye for composition, Adam Hugues is an artist to follow for sure

 

Internet Gem: Emily Carroll

She needs no introduction

Amazing visual artist 

go directly to her website

and Enjoy!

Emily Carroll

http://emcarroll.com/comics/worthington/

Public domain hero spotlight : Octobriana

Who is Octobriana ?

Started as a twisted Czech mystification (with Peter Sadeky), reborn as a UK sensation (linked with David Bowie), labelled as spy, rebellious soul, She-devil ... this is Octobriana!

Octobriana is public domain, which means she's copyright free and everyone can create his own version.
And indeed, you can see Octobriana in all shapes and forms (as adult comic, anime, manga, cartoon, pixel-art, in movies, music clip, video game (or maybe not), ... ) beware though because many of her reinvention should be tagged NSFW.



Octobriana is a good starting point for comic artists in lack of inspiration for their comics, very much like Jenny Everywhere ; she seems to be unfortunately confined for the underground borderline adult comics - not for the mainstream.

A selection of links for Octobriana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octobriana
http://octobriana.wikinet.org/
http://octobriana.org/
http://octobrianacz.blogspot.com/
http://www.reddit.com/r/octobriana
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/octobriana

Beware because Octobriana keeps coming back every now and then, re-emerging from the depth of the underground comics layer of the web. Mysteriously.

Other public domain characters

http://comicbookdb.com/team.php?ID=892

Grumpy Cat

Image source : Grumpy-cat

Tardar Sauce (aka Grumpy cat) became an internet sensation after her photo (yes Tardar is a female) arisen in  September 2012.

Her official webpage is at www.grumpycats.com
Her facebook page
Her youtube channel
Her tumblr
Now there's meme about grumpy cat all over the place
"I had fun once, it was awful"
"No!"
"Good!"

The meme is being used into T-Shirt, Poster,  magnet, flyer, hat, etc ...

Check for yourself :
http://socialeyezer.com/2012/12/11/14-purrfect-gifts-of-the-grumpy-cat-meme/
http://kakuleter.com/20-lol-grumpy-cat-illustrations-and-drawings/

This post is dedicated to Grumpy Cat
But does Tardar Sauce approves of this ?