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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · 1d

I know we’re tired of AI takes but please please please read The Oatmeal’s take. It’s the best one.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · 3d

Jack!

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · 3d

sometimes you just gotta draw your OCs shirtless

A sketch of my character, Jack wearing pants and no shirt

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · 4d

Trying out a new hairstyle for Jack (one that’s a little more hat-friendly)

An illustration of my character, Jack. He’s got short hair and a slight fade.

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · 12d

Just finished Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social and holy hell this was exactly the cozy spooky comic I needed while sick. Beautiful art, beautiful characters, loved it the whole way through. A++++ Keezy!!!!

A selfie of me holding up the graphic novel “hello sunshine”

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · 13d

The finished page!!!!! Very happy with the colors

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · 13d

Incomplete page but I’m just so proud of my posh rich people

A slice of a comic book page featuring some Rich Victorian, looking people at a party saying snobby things

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · 14d

Color palette no. 2

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · 15d

Trying out color palettes!

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · 27d

LOSING MY MIND

Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 28d

#TheExpanse A Little Death issue #1 is out now!

Wes and I think you should check it out — and so does Steven Strait, aka the Rocinante’s captain James Holden!

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · Sep 7

Day 6, Sketchtember, harvest moon

#sketchtember #fall #autumn #illustration

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · Sep 6

Oh! Great point, I’ll try changing it. Thank you!

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · Sep 6

Sketchtember Day 5!! Spider tattoo
#sketchtember

I feel like the shading on this is so confused

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · Sep 5

Day 4, Sketchtember - “flower crown”

#sketchtember #2dart #illustration

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Escape Pod Comics @escapepodcomics.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sadly, our preorder system is a victim of the distribution mess but I will be getting y'all plenty of copies of this!

DM or email me if you need one held on release day!

Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · Jun 2

You should preorder my book, and here are all the links www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/604737...

Cover to my graphic novel, Angelica and the Bear Prince. A young couple holds hands—a young femme person dressed mostly in pinks and reds, and a more masc person dressed in cool hues.

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · Sep 5

why are you torturing me with this talk of breakfast tacos

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’m two days behind on Sketchtember so I’m gonna jump right into Day 3: Mustache

Help me come up with a name for him

#sketchtember #characterdesign

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · Sep 2

Every new AI image gen model that comes out is - to some degree - marketed as a tool that can be leveraged my professional artists.

and *every time*, i want to be like oh, sweet baby girl, you don’t know that this is bad art.

How cute that you think we would find this useful.

*pats head*

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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Replica004 | Sara Zeno Camponeschi @replica004.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's my Birthday today!💫🎉 Can I ask for a customary share of my art?

✨ Big Announcement: I thought about it very hard, and finally decided to open a crowdfunding to help me out with my Top Surgery. Keep an eye out for later this year, I'd be very grateful for all the help I can get 🥹 Love you all 💙

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · Aug 30

Testing out drawing the actual panels, gonna play around with color palettes soon

#comics #comicbook #oc #comicart #comicbookart

The beginnings of an ink, comic book page. Panel one a man wearing a cowboy hat glances to the side smoking. Panel 22 deputies pause, eyes wide, three a larger panel, where the man in panel one jumps from the train.

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · Aug 29

I cannot imagine being an artist that does dreamy, high-fidelity fantasy anime-esque illustrations in 2025. The amount of “THIS IS AI SLOP” accusations must be insane. I feel for them 😭

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · Aug 29

Like, the technology is genuinely cool! AND ALSO these models simply cannot not without a stolen amount of data.

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · Aug 29

also plagiarism

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