Arts & Entertainment
Shelton State Art Instructor Releases AI-Generated Comic Book Series
Carson Grubaugh has announced the release of a four-issue comic book miniseries creation in part through a collaboration with an AI system.
TUSCALOOSA, AL — Shelton State Community College art instructor Carson Grubaugh has announced the release of a four-issue comic book miniseries creation in part through a collaboration with artificial intelligence image generation system, MidJourney AI.
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Entitled the "The Abolition of Man," the comic series aims to innovate storytelling, with Grubaugh supplying the AI with lines from C.S. Lewis' lecture, “The Abolition of Man,” and using the images generated to produce the artwork.
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In addition to his most recent work, Grubaugh is also nominated for an Eisner Award, which are viewed as the industry equivalent of the Academy Awards and are given for creative achievement in American comic books. Along with Dave Sim, Grubaugh is nominated for "The Strange Death of Alex Raymond" for "Best Reality-Based Work."
“I've spent years as an artist abusing many different publicly available app-fads, in an effort to illustrate what could be called a 'Banal, Content Apocalypse,' in which we've generated so much semantic content that something genuinely new is near impossible to come by,” Grubaugh said. “These new art-making AI open up both new means for generating previously unimaginable content, but also speed the production to the point where all we will have left to us is to transmute the meaning-rich gold of the past into recycled lead of the present.”
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"The Abolition of Man #1" will be available in English-language comic book shops in this October and will be distributed exclusively by Diamond Comics.
The comic book is also available to preorder now from Diamond Comics-affiliated comic shops, or the PreviewsWorld ordering system, using the order code APR228727.
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