Harts Pass no. 819

A lot of rain in the pacific northwest forecasts over the next several days. The snow is falling in the mountains, and the winter fans among us are anxiously waiting. Awake wolverines. You guardians of grit. WE. WANT. WINTER!!!

Harts Pass no. 818

Another quick one with the headlines and the very welcome election results over the last several days. Plus, I really DID enjoy that extra hour of sleep last weekend!

Harts Pass no. 817

A quicker one - just because I was wrapping up my final days of the Graphic Design MFA semester. At the same time, this is almost verbatim the exact "breaking news" alert that showed up on my watch...and paired with Trump's recent "burp" clip from a rally, it just all kind of came together :)

Harts Pass no. 816

Another one about the "art" of comics. At times I just really love drawing these characters -- their expressions, the hints of their natural setting, etc. Enjoy a quiet comic!

Harts Pass no. 815

And here we go again with the hypocrisy of this administration (and the voters that propped it up.) Good luck with the data center protests. Incorrectly (obviously) they don't believe that your "environment" can cause you harm. GRRR!!!

Harts Pass no. 814

GRRR! It is REALLY hard not to do political cartoons right now. And truly, why it the world do we tolerate our president being so crass and ugly and mean? His entire narrative is bleak and horrible, and he offers to hope or tangible optimism aside from lip service to some sort of self-centered "greatness." I can only hope that the voters in this country are feeling the same way one month from now. Onward...

Harts Pass no. 813

GAAA! I tried an A.I. experiment with my comic...and is worked a little TOO well. Not that I should be surprised, but I'd rather NOT be thinking that this is where the world is headed :(

It was "interesting" as an experiment, but very disheartening at it's core. The left panel of this strip totally was created by some generative A.I. I gave it a prompt to make a comic strip about wolverines and artificial intelligence (plus I also fed the bot a few of my strips for style.) You can see here that it did pretty well with the color scheme and the general look/feel of the line work, but certain proportional representations are off -- and the ad libbing was even more obvious with several other ideas that were produced, especially in those that clearly stole wolverine images from the internet and then tried to work them into a sensible cartoon-like idea. That being said, the "jokes" or the "punchlines" of the comic attempts made a surprising amount of sense. It was able to "write" a comic-like idea with really very little prompting from me at all. 

We are indeed doomed. Long live the analog arts and the human beings that should always be an integral part of the making process!!!

 

Harts Pass no. 812

And then sometimes I just do these because the artistic effort is fun :) Equal day & night, baby...and my wife is ALREADY looking forward to the days getting lighter again!

Harts Pass no. 811

Just another day of the federal government screwing things up. A fifty-year-old precedent has now been watered down so that a bunch of already rich developers and friends of people in power can make more money. Meanwhile, the world gets a little less "rich" in terms of biodiversity...and the actual stuff that makes being alive so wonderous and awe-inspiring in the first place. 

But maybe that's just me...

GRRR!!!

Harts Pass no. 810

Ah...that feeling of PURE EXHAUSTION after an entire day or jumping back into the fray :)