The Art and History of Lettering Comics
Hacker News
MARCH 6, 2024
Todd Klein's online book exploring little-known aspects of comics: lettering, letterers, logo design and more.
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Comics I Loved in 2023
Hacker News
JANUARY 6, 2024
Reflecting on comics that resonated for me in 2023
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Oh No Robot is a comics search engine that is both cool AND good!
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Create comics, manga and webtoon with an AI in minutes.
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The AI Comic: Z.A.I.N – Issue #2: Facial Recognition using Computer Vision
Analytics Vidhya
JUNE 16, 2019
Introduction First – a HUGE thank you to our community for the wonderful response to the first issue of our exclusive AI comic – The post The AI Comic: Z.A.I.N – Issue #2: Facial Recognition using Computer Vision appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
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The AI Comic: Z.A.I.N – Issue #1: Automating Attendance using Computer Vision
Analytics Vidhya
JUNE 3, 2019
The post The AI Comic: Z.A.I.N – Issue #1: Automating Attendance using Computer Vision appeared first on Analytics Vidhya. “Sound does not travel in a vaccum.“ “ The above concept might just be a simple fact for you – but I had a tough.
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7 AI Comic Generator Tools to Try in 2023
JULY 5, 2023
Unleash your creativity with these 7 amazing AI comic generator tools. Dive into our guide and bring your stories to life with stunning visuals that …
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Comic Mono
Hacker News
JUNE 13, 2023
A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood
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Creating My Own “Comic GPT” with OpenAI’s GPT-Store in Just Three Steps
Towards AI
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
Cartoon character generated by comic GPT The launch of OpenAI’s GPT Store, similar to Apple’s App Store moment, represents a significant milestone in technology and its applications. Last Updated on November 13, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Sumit Pandey Originally published on Towards AI.
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Apple Vision Pro: What About Comic Books?
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 3, 2024
Obviously the Vision Pro isn't the first VR/AR/whatever device, but it's the first one that's got enough resolution to prevent me from getting pissed off as soon as I stick it to my face. And while there have already been reams of articles published about other aspects of using the Vision Pro, I haven't seen…
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JANUARY 28, 2024
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IIT Grad’s AI-Generated Cover Letter Leaves Everyone in Stitches
Analytics Vidhya
JULY 16, 2023
In a comical turn of events, an IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) graduate’s attempt to leverage artificial intelligence for writing a cover letter resulted in an epic fail. The applicant, named Akhil, forgot to remove some technical jargon from the AI-generated letter before sending it out.
The Far Side – By Gary Larson
Hacker News
JANUARY 31, 2024
Visit the official online home of The Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson for your daily dose of Gary’s classic cartoons.
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Topo magazine uses comics to tell the news to French teens
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
"I don't want to make ‘positive news.' At the same time, we have a real responsibility toward our young readers to not completely depress them."
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Life After “Calvin and Hobbes”
Hacker News
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Bill Watterson’s return to print, after nearly three decades, comes in the form of a fable called “The Mysteries,” which shares with his famous comic strip a sense of enchantment.
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The woman who coined the expression 'Surfing the Internet'
Hacker News
MARCH 4, 2024
The story of the expression 'surfing the internet' involves a librarian, a mouse pad with a surfer on a wave, a network service provider, and a comic book.
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F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language
Hacker News
APRIL 16, 2024
In the 1960s, while ITS was developed at MIT, AT&T Bell Labs fostered a similar hacker spirit, creating Unix and the C language. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, transitioning from the Multics project, aimed for simplicity and efficiency, developing Unix on PDP-7 and later porting it to PDP-11.
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How HTTPS Works
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
Follow the adventures of Certificat as she explains why HTTPS is crucial for the future of the internet and how it all works together in a comic.
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Segmenting Comic Books Using SAM (Segment-Anything)
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
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History in Ink: Preserving the World's Largest Cartoon and Comic Collection
Hacker News
JANUARY 1, 2024
From 1920s manga to Captain Marvel to Calvin and Hobbes, there’s no telling what treasures you’ll uncover at this unique institution.
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AI-Created Images Aren’t Protected By Copyright Law According To U.S. Copyright Office
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Copyright Office has ruled that illustrations in a new comic book that were created with the AI program Midjourney are not protected by copyright law, according to a letter issued by the Copyright Office.
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Readable and informative AI safety guide
FlowingData
MAY 8, 2024
It has comics. If the ideas seem kind of fuzzy, Nicky Case and Hack Club are collaborating on a guide for how these things work and the issues that we should address as AI-based things grow more common. It grows more likely that the systems will directly affect your day-to-day life.
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Tintin, Hergé and Chang
Hacker News
JUNE 25, 2023
Because of the Belgian artist's conversations with Chang Chong-Ren, Tintin comics became famous for their geographical and historical accuracy. In effect, Chang taught Hergé a whole new way of looking at the world.
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Generative AI: The Next Consumer Platform
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
The use cases are everywhere—from writing essays to creating comics to editing films —and adoption has outpaced every consumer tech trend of the past decade. We’ve entered the age of generative AI.
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Meet your new AI tutor
AUGUST 21, 2023
But its implications for cheating in the classroom — and its sometimes comically wrong answers to basic questions — have left some in … CNN — Artificial intelligence often induces fear, awe or some panicked combination of both for its impressive ability to generate unique human-like text in seconds.
IRC is the only viable chat protocol
Hacker News
JULY 29, 2023
An article on why IRC is still the only chat protocol worth using, and a positive look at the surprisingly autistic-friendly Microsoft Comic Chat IRC client.
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Create your own comic books with AI Comic Factory
Dataconomy
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Do you have a great comic book idea in mind but have no interest or talent in drawing? With AI Comic Factory, designing your dream comic book will only take seconds and the best part is that this comic book generator is completely free! And now we can design amazing comic books thanks to AI Comic Factory.
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Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box
Hacker News
JULY 18, 2023
Fantagraphics Books, which was founded in 1976 by Gary Groth and Michael Catron, has always been one of the most creative and unique publishers of graphic novels, manga, comic strip anthologies and alternative comics like the Hernandez brothers’ Love and Rockets and Jay Disbrow’s The Flames of Gyro.
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English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals
Hacker News
AUGUST 21, 2023
SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.
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The Black Dandy of Buenos Aires
Hacker News
JUNE 1, 2023
Alberto examines the racial stories told by photographs, comic strips, and newspaper articles about a person many knew only as “el negro Raúl”, searching for the life behind the legend.
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Endless Seinfeld episode grinds to a halt after AI comic violates Twitch guidelines
FEBRUARY 5, 2023
Unintended transphobic act by AI-powered Jerry Seinfeld clone leads to 14-day ban. Since December 14, a Twitch channel called Nothing, Forever has been …
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The Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS – Thomas Park
Hacker News
JULY 24, 2023
After 65 years at Mad Magazine, comic artist Al Jaffee announced his retirement. Jaffee was best known for his Mad Fold-Ins, where folding the page would reveal a hidden message in the artwork. Plenty of examples can be found on the web. The problem is, they all show the before and after statically, side by
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From Raw Data to Visualization: Marvel Social Graph Analysis
Smart Data Collective
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
As we all know, Marvel is one of the most influential comic books in the world created by Stan Lee. For instance, when Spider-Man appears in a comic book with Captain America, these are all visualized through data graphics. In 1941, the Marvel comic released Captain America. First Graphic Presentation.
Shortbread (YC W23) is hiring a founding engineer in SF for AI comics creation
Hacker News
APRIL 23, 2024
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Having a Game I'm into Makes Every Day Enjoyable
Hacker News
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Later, I enjoyed reading comics and books at a leisurely pace; it was more of a gradual enjoyment rather than an obsession that would cost me sleep. First, there was soccer in elementary school, then guitar and drums in high school. After that, I got into FPS games and eventually found programming, which led to a career.
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APRIL 23, 2024
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Introduction to Causality in Machine Learning
PyImageSearch
MAY 8, 2023
You could write an algorithm that predicts the sales of comic books, and your model works well and produces high-accuracy predictions, but you need to know why. There has been a recent rise in comic book sales, and you need to figure out why so the company can maintain the sales figures. Disney+ has shows about comic book characters.
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Fonts primer
FlowingData
JULY 6, 2023
Everyone knows Comic Sans is always the best choice. You pick type designs each time you use a word processor, read an e-book, send an email, prepare a presentation, craft a wedding invite and make an Instagram story.
91 Comic Code: Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface
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JULY 19, 2023
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Shortbread.ai (YC W23) is hiring a founding engineer to build AI comics creation
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NOVEMBER 28, 2023
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Streamline your results with this Midjourney artist list
Dataconomy
JANUARY 2, 2024
Here is our Midjourney artist list: Adrian Tomine: Master of Contemporary Comics Adrian Tomine, celebrated for his poignant and relatable illustrations, is a powerhouse in the world of contemporary comics.
DIY IBM Selectric type balls give ’60s typewriters new life (and Comic Sans)
Hacker News
APRIL 13, 2023
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