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OpenAI’s latest image generation model, DALL-E 3, makes it SO easy to create comic books!
Here are 4 panels for a fan-made Batman comic made in under 5 minutes.
Prompts included in the ALT.
Enjoy!🔥
Hi, I'm a graphic designer. You may know me from my greatest hits including, "72dpi won't print properly", "I think the logo is big enough", "It's supposed to look like that" and "Did you receive my invoice?"
Hi, I'm a data visualisation professional. You may know me from my greatest hits including, "No, your y-axis doesn't have to start at zero (lines remix)", "Do you really need a dashboard?", "I don't hate pie charts but..." and "That dual-axis chart looks a little confusing."
Watching the "don't pirate comics" debate unfold again on Twitter and impressed by the increasingly inane reasons pirates are trying to justify why pirating is OK. Incidentally they're the same folks that complain when publishers have to cancel series due to low sales.
Just announced at
#SDCC
: here’s the full set of the rebranded X logos I’ve designed for
@Marvel
’s
#DawnOfX
#XMen
line relaunch coming this autumn following the
#HouseOfX
/
#PowersOfX
series that set up the brand new direction.
I've now had 3 clients who explicitly restrict the use of AI in creative development because you can't copyright any AI generated content, not to mention the issue of confidential material that might be absorbed into the algorithm.
R.I.P Milton Glaser, a towering figure in design who influenced pretty much all of us in the field. Even in comics he, and his studio, left an indelible mark
Looks like X-Men is trending again, so a little 🧵on the design of the current collections. I often see people asking about & discussing the design system and the spine designs. Here we go!
If Comicsgate ‘just want good indie comics’ why do they spend so much time denigrating women and LGBTQ+ creators and mainstream superhero comics online and in their videos? Not really ‘helping the cause’ is it?
The biggest fallacy in the "comics are dying because they're woke" argument is that there actually isn't a set way that comics should be written and drawn; because comics naturally flow with the the public that reads them; and you can't keep referencing the 80s and 90s.
A few detail shots of the HOUSE OF X / POWERS OF X hardcover. The dust jacket is 4 colours + 2 Pantone colours—032C Red and 805C Neon (for the X key line that wraps around). The key line is also printed on the reverse of the jacket, and the case cover itself.
#comics
#design
Look at this beautiful IMMORTAL X-MEN
#1
cover by
@MarkBrooksArt
, with the full cover dress applied. On sale March 30th!
Once all
#DestinyOfX
books are out, I’ll talk about the development of the new trade dress and the return of the corner boxes!
#marvel
#xmen
#logo
#design
Please note that every time you start and/or sign a petition against a piece of pop culture that isn’t going how you wanted it to go, you are this person:
The inspiration behind my studio logo has always firmly sat with the furniture design brands I was surrounded with growing up—a vibrant Modernist optimism that radiated timelessness while always looking at the future.
Here’s my Design Variant cover for X-MEN
#1
, in stores October 16! Final order date is Monday September 23. Tell your comic shop you need this.
Stay tuned for my other Design Variant covers for the other
#DawnOfX
launches!
#xmen
#design
#HOXPOX
#Marvel
The structure of the file will probably make some people punch their screen, but here's what was my master design file full of sketches when I was exploring
#xmen
logos:
TRIALS OF X Vol. 12 is out today, and marks the final collection in the 'anthology' style X collections that began with DAWN OF X and continued with REIGN OF X. 42 Books in 4 years. What a ride!
#xmen
#marvel
#comics
#books
#design
#branding
A selection of X “design pages” from the Dawn of X, Reign of X and Trials of X
#xmen
collections for
#marvel
. The pages act as chapter breakers and show an ever mutating graphic X pattern.
#design
With INFERNO
#4
and X-MEN
#6
in stores today, here are the cover designs for the INFERNO hardcover collection and X-MEN Vol.1. Expect some fiery Pantone colours for INFERNO, and the X-Men collections get an updated colour scheme going forward.
Happy Immortal X-Men
#ncbd
! The Destiny of X phase has started with a bang — and with this new phase we're bringing cornerboxes to Krakoa. A thread on genesis and design of bringing this much-loved cover device into the future: 1/6
Sorry my dudes, but
@bleedingcool
giving Vox Day a platform to spout his skewed white nationalist rhetoric is a new pretty impressive low in comics "journalism", or "journalism" in general.
Graphic designers: don't talk about how you designed your logo—we can see that. Talk about how you used design to solve a problem, and how your creative and strategic insight helped your client.
All the X-Men collection covers to date: HOUSE OF X, X OF SWORDS, X-MEN: HELLFIRE GALA Red Carpet Edition, and INFERNO (coming in March). A unified design system, with Pantone spot colors on the hardcover editions.
Moebius is one of the most influential, towering figures in comics, film, and art of the latter half of the 20th century, impacting a whole industry. And yet…most of the press announcing Waititi's adaptation omits his name in the headlines. He's truly one of us.
#artcred
I’ve noticed that disgraced artist Ethan Van Sciver, so-called leader of online harassment group ComicsGate, is trying to whitewash the abuse the group aims at usually women, POC, LGBTQ+ folk in comics. He forgets the internet has receipts. Don’t pay attention to him & his ilk.
Seeing that this logo non-story is doing the rounds again, allow me to settle this once and for all. Two reasons: market trends and innovations in media platforms. That’s it. Pick any decade and look at any set of logos from an industry and you’ll see the same uniformity.
Delivered the design for the SINS OF SINISTER oversized hardcover (available in September). It'll fit nicely with the other oversized books in the line, and its probably the most complex one I've designed so far—corrupting the X language with sinister genetics.
People pirating comic: "We can do what we want. It's free online anyway!"
*Pirated comic doesn't sell enough, so stops being published.
People pirating comic: "Why did they cancel it just when it got good?"
Comic creators and publishers:
👋 I’m Tom. I design 💻 digital products and services, but you probably know me from my design work in comics. You might have seen the new X logo I designed for
@Marvel
recently.
#PortfolioDay
The die-hard "I only read printed comics" reader need to remember that the push into original content by both ComiXology and Substack is not necessarily aimed at you, but at growing the audience for the medium as a whole — supplementing, not replacing, print.
It bears repeating: ComicsGate is a dumpster fire filled with hateful people, hiding their sub-par talent behind propaganda and fear of anything that’s not like them. Don’t hang out with them, don’t work with them. It’s a rash that doesn’t wash off.