I will leave my old blog posts here, but I’ve been posting on Substack, and I am enjoying the interaction with other cartoonists, writers and people who appreciate work created by humans.
Click to read more Arctic Circle comics on Comics Kingdom
In common with all parts of the internet I like, Substack isn’t perfect. However, unlike Facebook and Instagram, it doesn’t harvest our data to sell, and it isn’t using our images to train AIs. AIs that are taking the work of cartoonists who are just starting out. If Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and Dall-E had been around when I was learning the ropes, I would have struggled to get my first few clients. My work was used to train Midjourney and I’ve enjoyed playing with that AI image generator, but I’d rather draw my own comics. Just as ChatGPT is useful for writing marketing blurb or for drafting emails to the council to ask them to let dogs on buses; it can do the mundane stuff, but I don’t want it to take the joy out of the writing I do for fun, making comics and books.
Join more of the good humans and see what I’ve been posting on Substack here: https://alexhallatt.substack.com/archive