AI Drew This Gorgeous Comics Series. You'd Never Know It

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Abstraction: Midjourney AI used to create full professional comics series

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Campfire Entertainment's The Bestiary Chronicles is believed to be the first AI-art comics series; all four parts are free for download and also sold in print anthologies.
Creator Steve Coulson used Midjourney by iterating text prompts (e.g., "Hitchcock Blonde," style references like J.C. Leyendecker) and selecting the best outputs — likened to improv jazz collaboration.
Midjourney released two upgrades during the three-month production window, producing a visible jump in image quality between issues.
Coulson gave Midjourney an author credit and describes the workflow as "collage": generating 100+ splash pages, then assembling narrative around the best selections.
Raises ethical and copyright concerns: AI art trains on human-made work, and an AI image winning an art prize in September 2022 sparked artist backlash ("death of artistry").

Connections: Midjourney · Campfire Entertainment · Stable Diffusion · AI Image Generation · Generative Art