AOPaul

Wow. After all these years. It started as just a shimmer of an idea years ago working a monotonous job operating a car-sized printer, where all I had was time to dream. Years later I entered a comic competition for Image Comics w Frank Cho and was a finalist of 5 artists out of thousands of entries. I didn't win, but it told me I might be able to do this! I took those pages and did a portfolio review with Kevin Eastman of TMNT when he owned Heavy Metal. He said to do my own thing and he'd publish it! I know that was forever ago, but that was the boost I needed to start this comic. FINALLY it has finally come to fruition. Those of you who have been following me all these years know this has been a long time coming. No Patreon, no seed funding, this has all been done between full time jobs, gigs that have taken all my free time and crazy-batshit life circumstances. But here we are. Just know if you have a dream... never give up. I'm not doing this for fame or money, I'm doing it for

Whoa! This is a big deal, especially since so many are getting into AI : To those submitting AI work... know your output is no longer protected. You have no more rights to it as if someone else created it. Basically you are just a prompter giving instructions and since the actual 'artist' isn't human, it can't be copyrighted and others can use it however they'd like: "If a work's traditional elements of authorship were produced by a machine, the work lacks human authorship and the Office will not register it. For example, when an AI technology receives solely a prompt from a human and produces complex written, visual, or musical works in response, the “traditional elements of authorship” are determined and executed by the technology—not the human user." "...these prompts function more like instructions to a commissioned artist—they identify what the prompter wishes to have depicted, but the machine determines how those instructions are implemented in its output." To learn more...