AI Drew This Gorgeous Comic Series. You’d Never Know It

There are two points that I think should be noted:

First: “AI image generation is advancing so rapidly, he adds, that The Lesson, out Nov. 1, marks a clear visual step up from the first comic in the trilogy, Summer Island, a folk-horror story in the spirit of Midsommar that came out in August. During those three months, Midjourney went through two upgrades.”

Second: it’s free to download.

I have not downloaded or read it, but the writer of the article seemed to like it, and noted that it was a substantial improvement over the issue published a few months before. That should worry comic artists, who can take many years to go from “adequate” to “good” to “great.” And the fact that it’s *free* should worry *everyone* in the comic industry. Because while I doubt “free” will be the way this sort of thing will remain, it’s a safe bet that its far cheaper to produce AI-art-comic books than human-art. Soon enough the market will be flooded with AI-art books.