Comic Books

I read a lot of comics as a kid but I was very impressed by the American ones mainly because they would have adds for parts to turn your .22 rifle into a machine gun. After that I was heading for the USA, lol
 
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Paintman said:
Okay who ordered stuff from the back of the comic books ?
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Paulm said:
not sure how letting AI design / build the complete scene would work. i always write the story out first and then build / design the characters and scenes all separately to how i see or want them.
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I recently tried using AI to scope out some ideas before doing them myself. The best part of the experience was the conversation about why it kept failing to do what I asked it to! As far as I can figure out, it was because it had no reference material for what I wanted it to draw and so kept filling in the unfamiliar bits with generic things.
 
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As Steve Martin once taught us, " We all have our own El Guapo."

I remember ordering the life size submarine from the back of a comic book. It was just a large cardboard box printed up to look like a submarine. I quickly calculated that it was not seaworthy.
 
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Duke said:
Did you read/collect comic books as a kid? Who was your favorite character? Did you ever read any of the non-superhero comics like "Archie" or "Classic Comics."
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Comics were a massive part of my childhood. My dad and his siblings grew up in London, so had access to all the comics. With the Batman TV show in the late 60s they got into Batman and then when Marvel launched Marvel UK they collected the reprints of those... and the imports of newer Marvel and DC , plus other things. So growing up in Peterborough (with somewhat less of a selection) in addition to British kids comics I got to read a lot of other cool stuff, including a reprint of the first Joker story from 1940, early superman a Steve Ditko spider-man, some really early Fantastic Four and Wonder woman, plus Jim Starlin's Warlock, Deathlock, Doctor Strange, Conan, Red Sonja and on and on. Their collections have a heavy tilt towards stories considered all time classics now, so I was blessed.
These comics encouraged me to learn to read and then taught me a lot new words and encouraged me to write and draw, and from the age of ten I began making my own comics with my best friend, who introduced me to Judge Dredd.
We each came up with our own strips and drew them onto sideways sheets of A4 paper, which I stapled together into a proper comic. The standout was his Attack of the Killer Grannies.
Later I began to draw caricatures of people around me, students and teachers and became pretty common for somebody to notice I was staring at them and scribbling.
It was only a matter of time before that turned into an ongoing comic strip featuring everyone in wild satirical honestly pretty insulting at times adventures and it was really popular for a few years. So popular in fact, that I don't have a single page as all of them got stolen at various points.
How I wish I'd wish I'd made use of the photocopier we had sitting right there in my dad's office at home!
I had a letter printed in a Marvel comic too. I still love comics, but exclusively read old classics now. I'm currently really enjoying re-reading the Infinity Gauntlet epic with Thanos.
 
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