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tym godek

@tymgodek.bsky.social

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Guy from Ohio. Secret cartoonist. Comics for sale: https://yellowlight.storenvy.com

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tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 5d

You actually had a hand in shaping what this became, whether you know it or not.

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 5d

Should have done a pull quote 🤣

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah! Promotion!

ghost ship gore @britneyspheres.bsky.social · 5d

since it's the 2023 collection of @tymgodek.bsky.social's annually published 30 days diary comic, here come my 30 cents from that year's tcj best of

As every other year, Tym Godek did a gorgeously haunting 30 days of comics on his Tumblr, which might sing to some.

Cover to Today is never Right Now by Tymothi Godek, depicted is the abstraction of blue hair on a yellow head

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 5d

It’s been known to tip the scales to purchase for me many times.

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 5d

Domino books has always been fantastic! One of the undersung features of his site is the text that Austin attaches to every listing. More than marketing copy, it’s sometimes contextualization and oftentimes personal observations on the work. Love seeing it.

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 5d

Link: dominobooks.org/todayneverri...

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tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 5d

Did I tell you I have a new book out? Probably not, I am bad at promotion, but happy to have my latest printed comic available now at @dominocomics.bsky.social web shop.

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 12d

Whoops…107

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 12d

Cleaned up the stacks and got everything on shelves. Discovered some more I haven’t read. 104 so far…

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 15d

And if I’m wrong and it was created as such - by an artist with intent - then my hat is off to the artist.

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 15d

I would like to make images this readable and yet confused, or I would like this image to have been made with the purpose of being confusing.

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 15d

(And it’s likely the image does not adequately satisfy any intent behind the prompt in this case anyway. Again, it’s hard to judge sans context)

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 15d

If it truly is ai - like I suspect - then there was never any actual “intent” behind the generation of the image. (While I do believe there may be an “art” to prompting ai generation, I do not believe that the prompt is the “Art.”)

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 15d

But I imagine what I like about it runs counter to the original intent. (Tho it’s tough to judge that without more context)

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 15d

But the use is defined by the intent. I might love it if it was intentionally created. A lot of my own cartooning strives for such an effect (or affect)

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 15d

That is, while I do not think it was made the way it is (prompted?) with intent, I see a usefulness to its “wrongness”

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 15d

This image confuses in a way so pleasantly (to me) that I wish it was not accidental slop.

Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 15d

Another reminder that graphics are decomposible… I assume this was created by AI because the top implies the girl walks forward but the legs and feet suggest waking away. Each part is well-formed but the whole is odd

Graphic of a girl walking where the top half implies she moves forward but the bottom half implies she moves away

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 16d

What’s with this new (to me) concept of “too many nachos”?!?

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 21d

The world is shit but I’ve been keeping up with the dishes, and that has to count for something, right?

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 23d

Read a few of these, so I’ve knocked the list down to… let’s see… 79, now.

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 26d

I have no money to speak of but I still ordered this so fast.

Floating World Comics @floatingworld.bsky.social · 26d

Alienation: Final Cut Special Edition set - limited to just 100 copies!

Includes: Signed and Numbered Process Zine + Stickers + Postcard

floatingworldcomics.com/shop/comic-b...

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · 27d

We got a puppy in January and I haven’t been able to listen to Lightning Bolt in the house since then because it drives her destructively crazy.

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · Sep 7

I just counted. 62 items in my “to read” pile. (Books I’ve bought or were gifted to me). More on the way too. Probably good that I ran out of money to spend.

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · Sep 7

My Dad and my sister both have stuff in there too. I’m trying to encourage them to do the same. My dad is kind of “eh, shit happens” about it.

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · Sep 7

Like, @neilcohn.bsky.social, there’s a lot of your name showing up here. And apparently this only allows a partial search of the database…

tym godek @tymgodek.bsky.social · Sep 7

I have family members and friends whose work shows up here. I have a limited reach, but passing this along anyway.

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.