Dark Side Is Coming Now Nothing Is Real

AI improves my product. If my covers look more professional, I will reach more people. This is a good thing. I would never let a computer write my stories for me. But I'll let one help me put a cover together. Sure I will. Just as I will let one italicize the words I want italicized.

If I have to plow a field, I'll use a tractor. I mean, I know, it's terrible I'm putting perfectly good oxen out of work, and the tractor's fumes are a pollutant, but still. It's much much much more efficient, I can get more done faster.

Morons who can't tell the difference between using AI for cover graphics, which are not art but advertising, and using AI to do actual writing, which is indeed creative art and the product I produce and sell, tire me out. These are very different things. I don't claim my cover art as my own.

I went to college with a group of fellow geeks many of whom wanted to get into comic books professionally. We all agreed that whichever one of us got in first would help the others. There were four of us. Two of those four made it and are well known names in comic books now. One of us is dead.

I am mostly upset that neither of them tried to help our friend Jeff. He was enormously talented & the world would be a better place if he had had a chance to tell his stories in comics but instead he died of a broken heart in NJ after dropping out of the Kubert School. They could have helped.

I went to college with a group of fellow geeks many of whom wanted to get into comic books professionally. We all agreed that whichever one of us got in first would help the others. There were four of us. Two of those four made it and are well known names in comic books now. One of us is dead.

The other (me) is living in creative obscurity, unable to get any kind of breakthrough into pro success. The two that made it never seem to have looked back. This is generally the way of things, but the way of things is disappointing.