Announcing My New A.I. Comics Initiative!
August 15th, 2024 Barry Posted in Economic cartoons | No Comments »
Check out this sped-up video of me drawing this cartoon!
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This comic has four panels, each showing the same two characters. There’s a woman with long brown hair, a circle shaped earring, a black shirt and a red skirt. And there’s a fat guy with round glasses and dark hair tied in a ponytail, and he’s a caricature of me, Barry, the cartoonist. The two of them are talking in an outdoor park like environment.
PANEL 1
Barry is seated behind a desk that’s on a grassy hillside. He’s speaking directly to the reader with a big grin on his face and his arms spread wide. Nearby, the woman looks skeptical, as she pokes at a panel border.
BARRY: Announcing my new A.I. comics initiative! This comic is entirely drawn by A.I.!
WOMAN: Are you sure? It doesn’t look like A.I.
PANEL 2
Barry, grinning too big and looking like a nervous salesman, sweat flying off, holds out his hands. His hands look very gross, with many extra fingers.
BARRY: Uh… This is A.I.! Honest! Just look at my hideous hands!
BARRY: Are you listening, Colin Kaepernick? It’s yours for only three million dollars! Whatta bargain!
PANEL 3
The woman talks to Barry, holding up a palm in an “explaining my point” gesture. Barry, in response, holds up a hand in a “talk to the hand” gesture and turns away from her, his other hand on his forehead.
WOMAN: Couldn’t human cartoonists do the same work much better?
BARRY: Boring! Old! Not “disruptive!”
PANEL 4
The woman turns away from Barry, glaring down at a thick magazine about A.I. Art. Barry grins and holds his fisted hands to his chin in a “bursting with hope” sort of gesture. From the side, where Barry isn’t looking, a crude robot caricature of Barry has rolled onto panel. It’s holding up a four-panel comic strip.
WOMAN: It sounds like you’re selling out.
BARRY: Heck yeah! I just hope I can cash in before A.I. replaces me.
ROBOT BARRY: Hi there.
CHICKEN FAT WATCH
“Chicken Fat” is an old-fashioned cartoonists’ expression for little unimportant but hopefully fun details we put into cartoons. There’s a lot of chicken fat this time!
PANEL 1
In the foreground, there are a bunch of mushrooms growing from the ground, one of which has the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland on it, smoking from a large glass bong.
A gray-skinned Richard Nixon is popping up from a hole in the ground.
The woman’s earring is a yellow smiley face with red splattered over one eye, the icon of the “Watchmen” comic book.
PANEL 2
Among Barry’s many, many fingers is one that has a smiling face on the end. And one that’s a banana. And one that looks like the monster from “Alien,” with a smaller mouth extending out of the larger mouth.
Although all other panels show a cloudy day, in this panel the sky is clear blue and we can see the sun. The sun has a face and is scowling at Barry.
Barry’s t-shirt, which was black in the previous panel, has turned read. Words on the front of the shirt say “ME. © me 2024.”
PANEL 3
The woman’s skirt, which had a plaid pattern in panel 1, now has a polka dot pattern.
Barry’s t-shirt has changed again and now has an illustration of Bugs Bunny on it.
The woman’s round earring now has Charlie Brown’s face on it.
Barry has a third arm, which is holding an ice cream cone (one scoop of ice cream has fallen onto the sidewalk).
The woman’s hair is merging with a tree in the background.
A newspaper lying on the sidewalk, named “Background Tribune,” has a big headline which says “Litterbug Strikes Panel Three!”
PANEL 4
The woman’s skirt pattern has changed again, and is now a squared-off spiral pattern.
Her earring has changed again, and is now the face of Jack from the movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”
Barry’s t-shirt has changed again, and is now a drawing of a hammer in a yellow circle, which was the superhero character “Captain Hammer’s” logo in the web musical “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.”
The woman is holding a very thick magazine called “A.I. Art Daily.” The cover has a picture of a happy stick figure with three eyes and way too many fingers. There are two headlines: “Glossy surfaces are all art needs” and “Rainforests will not be missed.”
The comic strip the robot is holding is actually this comic strip.
