Going down the rabbit hole. The sculptures are incredible. I'm just getting into the logs and whole setting... just wild.

I've been putting out indie comics. Historical fiction, sci-fi, and I'm not sure what.

ko-fi.com/danloeb

I'll be in touch. Need to finish reading your stuff first.

From three different stories:

Ash: A full belly and a safe place to sleep.

Jacob: A place to be alone.

[Unnamed protagonist from Fructus Seminalis]: Many of her adoptive young grew healthy and strong and she is likely to make a tree when she dies, giving rise to many generations of offspring.

Definitely. I'll reach out soon as I'm done with this holiday stuff.

Oh yeah... Check out my comics if you want to for some reason.

ko-fi.com/DanLoeb

"Eat And Run." He's illiterate and only eats what he's able to beg or steal.

Fructus Seminalis: A planet where language has not evolved. There is no writing, catalogued information, or technology of any kind.

Ash: Late 16th century London.

F.A.M.: Modern day Philadelphia.

Or floating in an inner tube in a bay.

I hire artists. We work together and create comic books based on the stories and characters I create. That's closer to creating art but I'm no artist, and I respect them enough to acknowledge that.

You confused creativity with being spoon fed.

No one is preventing you from making art but yourself.

Asking AI to generate media for you is an of consumption, not creation. If you confused the two, even for a moment, then you know what it feels like to be robbed of your birthright as a human being.

Humans create art and in so doing we create ourselves. Don't let yourself be cheated.

If I commission a work of art, that doesn't make me an artist. It makes me someone who hired an artist.

If I do the same thing but delegate the creative act to an unthinking machine, that doesn't bring me closer to being ab artist, but further away. (Cultivating a craft would bring me closer.)

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I can't believe I haven't read Bone yet. It looks awesome and two different people told me my first comic "kinda reminded" them of Bone. You'd think that'd be enough.

Thanks for the reminder to finally check it out!

More infamy for me.

Yeah, I've been struggling to know what to call Imposter Syndrome minus success.

We could call it the Loeb-Jaffe Effect.

I think that's called Imposter Syndrome.

That's Hank Hill's butt.

AI?

That's okay. For a second I wondered if I had slipped into some cool alternate timeline.

Is that a prediction?

If I won an Ignatz, no one told me about it.