Comic Strips

Just make a comic with stick figures. Cyanide and Happiness literally became famous for doing it and turned into a semi-refined art style. You don't need AI if you got a good joke on your hands.

And nothing of value was lost.

Almost everyone, anyway

I started by making comics with horribly drawn stickmen in Paint, black and white, no colors, yet they got a positive reaction due to the writing (example of my work 2 years ago).

Unless you suffer from a severe physical disability, there's no excuse, you can draw your own comics.

The best part is while drawing your shitty stickmen, you'll get better at drawing, learn to represent emotions and actions, develop a style, start to have a visual identity, maybe even get good at it who knows.

I learned to draw from scratch in my late 30s, two years later I'm doing illustrations for my own games - there's still a lot of room for improvement, but it proves practice pays off even without tryharding and you don't need AI to draw your comics for you. You just need to get over your fears of judgement, try your best with the skills you've got, and keep doing it on a regular schedule. Slowly, over time, you'll get better. I promise. It'll be fruitless and frustrating sometimes, but you'll get big visible leaps in your skills every now and then.

That's why I'm always upvoting and complimenting those who are just getting started and can't draw much yet, but have good ideas and a vision. I'd encourage everyone else to do the same. A lot of people tend to stop if they don't get positive feedback.

If you're considering making AI comics, try drawing them instead. Who cares if it's ugly, give it your best and share it with the world. You might not get many upvotes, but if your ideas are good enough you'll get a few comments and the motivation to keep trying, and that's a lot already. Don't fret over having no "talent", I don't have any either, still can't draw anything decent with a pen and paper :-)

Incredible. Thank you.

People say that AI generated art displays a lack of talent, but I think that's not exactly true.

This technology steals the work of artists, funnels money into the hands of dictators and megacorps, poisons towns populated by minorities and sets the planet on fire. Defending all of that requires a level of talent in lacking empathy that's almost admirable.

Thank you!!!!! (づ￣ ³￣)づ

Awesome! Thanks for this decision.

AI-generated comics are no longer allowed in this community.

I'm not against the posting of AI generated content, but it should be confined to communities that were specifically set up for AI content.

Was ready to unfollow and block.
Glad we decided to preserve the integrity of the art.

Let the ai-bro tears flow.

Thank you for making this choice, and keeping this community worth visiting. And thank you for the hard work you do in moderating!

How the mod ruled:

Great choice!

low-quality AI-generated content

Is there any other kind?

I congratulate you on your decision

However, I do think that people like us are on the losing side. US tech companies are flooding the internet with AI slop and most people in the world are tied up in them and see barely anything else anymore.

Soon enough we'll be a tiny minority, but what can you do....?

Excellent decision! The simplest way to enforce this would be to require all comic strip submissions to include a source link.

Thanks for all your work on the community! It's a thankless job.

While I think Ai can make some cool images, it sucks at comics.
They look souless, have weird facial expressions and have inconsistent fonts.

Stick figure comics are far better.