Michael Sherwood or Smilingbandito wherever social media reaches.
Calgary, Alberta
Joined April 2009
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Smilingbandito retweeted
4 years ago my wife and I moved our 600 kids from CA to IL and bought a house for less than 1 year's rent. The move was a disaster costing over $40k.
Just paid off the last credit card.
Only 1 debt left.
Still need to fix the roof, and, replace the dryer and stove.
Hire me!
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The time has come! "Star Fetched: Part One" is now available for purchase on Amazon!
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It's available internationally as well, so get at it! In addition, an eBook version will be available soon, apologies that it wasn't ready yet (it's been a process), but I'll have it up within the next week, God-willing.
I just want to thank everybody who's been supportive of this book, I know it's been a long time coming, and I promise Part Two will be on the way very soon.
I truly hope you enjoy it. Those of you willing to give it a shot, thank you so much–I appreciate you taking a chance on me. It's been my true joy and pleasure to make it for all of you.
#starfetched
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Featured here is an illustration by Frank Frazetta from The Ultimate Triumph (Wandering Star, 1999), a landmark limited-edition collection of Robert E. Howard’s heroic fantasy. Gathering seven stories and five poems from Howard’s original manuscripts, the volume centers on one of his defining philosophical tensions: barbarism versus civilization. ⚔️
I would watch this version if they remade them. Finally embracing Samuel L. Jacksons influence on the franchise.
AI creates the opportunity to operate a production studio the same way an easy bake oven gave kids a kitchen.
The product is real and consuming it will become addictive enough as the stories begin to land with an audience, same way parents put their kids to work once they realized how tasty those cakes could be.
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Striking out before you even get to say a word.... Buster Keaton and hat check girl Rosalind Byrne.....
There is both a decay and a celebration in what it means to be human in this. The work mirroring the use of the tools itself. Those calling it art, are right. Those calling it the erosion of art are right.
It's going to be a very different world in another 5 years.
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He's not completely wrong. Generative AI lacks any process of creation, and therefore cannot be considered art. AI can become a tool to assist in the creation of genuine art.
But neither is most of the slop that "artists" have been churning out over the past decade. A decade of top-down, socially engineered, committee-approved corpo slop propaganda turned artists into a production line prompted by HR departments.
Too afraid to express genuine truth and meaning. So AI didn't replace artists, they replaced themselves.
Smilingbandito retweeted
Mariachi Legends is a brutal pixel art Metroidvania set in the heart of Mexico, where you make a deal with Lady Death for the power to fight against evil, but in exchange for having to hunt down a man who defied her power and became immortal
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"Let me tell you about The Mythicals..."
My favorite part of all this? Meeting new people that are looking for something NEW with their comics.
Conventions are teeming with excitement. If they're not in your plans making comics, you're doing it wrong.
Eventually, truly inspired work will break the ground from under the feet that AI haters believe they stand on.
Thus isn't a time to try and hold back the wave. Understand that if you have work that is truly inspired there will always be a place for it.
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While I edit the letters of my book...
You can read Okuri-Inu: Tokyo Blues for free right HERE!
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I can actually read the whole story of Okuri-Inu: The Wolf Within digitally now.
I knew it was going to be a reality; there is no giving up for me.
Reading it in its entirety, even though I'm in editor mode, is surreal.
@thelucentcomic @FillPops @Plaster_Harris @RenieDraws @DeathMetalHero @zenturian2000
So this is what it feels like, huh?
To read a COMPLETE work.
Not fractions of it here and there.
Crazy feeling after 5-6 years of spending all my own money.
Better than spending it on gambling and cheap crack whores.
Smilingbandito retweeted
THE MAN WITH NO STRINGS #1
interior art by @OliverIsabedra
Follow our lone gunman as he enters into the most deadly poker game of his life.
The path of revenge is one paved in bullets and blood.
You can grab issue 0 now and the pre-order #1 shipping out in april.
LINK BELOW
