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Happy FRIDAY, let's get down to business! (Patreon)

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2025-09-05 19:07:48
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2026-09
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Hello, Friday People! Let's start off with a puppy post.

It's really nice, once he stops moving all of his claws all over the place.

The original for this one's up in my store if you want it! Scroll down to the bottom of this post for your 50% off coupon code!

So, this finally happened:

RIP, you beautiful, expensive teapot.

How did it break? Oh, it gently shifted its position on the drying rack. I'll probably expire in much the same way one day.

Here's the original art!

I don't know how often normal people use ChatGPT, but I used it exactly once last year, and never revisited it due to all the uproar about its environmental impact.

Well, I'm subletting the back room of my house (which is exciting!! I'll get to that later), and I needed a kind of specific sublease agreement, which a) I wasn't going to pay someone to do, but b) wasn't going to write itself, unfortunately. Thus:

This process was FASCINATING. I have a lot of thoughts about generative comics production, but for now, let me just show you the robot's output.

Here's its first iteration:

And here's what it came up with after I fed it examples of my own drawings of myself and Quetza:

There are dozens of obvious problems, but a couple obvious improvements (I wish my comics were that visually clear and easy to read!). The obvious problems are the lack of nuance, the lack of familiarity with emotions and body language... it's funny, though, a lot of these problems are the same problems I see in beginner cartoonists with human flesh and feelings. Dunno how I feel about that.

It still creeps me out that the end of the comic is "with teeth," just like mine. *shudders*

Anyway, the original, human-made art for the AI comic is right here if you're an artist who needs a reminder that AI is not taking your job anytime soon!!

Most important takeaway from the AI comic experiment: the double-ended doggo in panel one of that first version.

Here's one about a dog with a head:

The apple falls directly below the tree, etc. etc.

Here's one for my garlic friends (sorry, vampire friends).

A deep, breathy shoutout to my fellow garlic fiends. Here's the original if you or someone you know deserves it!

Since this has been my Broke Girl Summer, and we're all collectively learning to hate super rich people, wealth has been on my mind lately. I wanted to write something palatable about the topic, so:

There you have it! A guide to your personal value as a human. Don't try to pay your bills with it, only your true friends will respect this particular currency.

Here's the original art for this one! And remember your discount code at checkout: DAILYSMILE50 will get you 50% off any original comic art in the store, which makes them all under $25 for my Patreon people. Thanks for being here! 🧡

Speaking of money, I'm heading out to do a caricature gig, so I gotta wrap this up. But I had a few more things to share, and you know I love a list, so, HERE'S A LIST:

The back room of my house is being rented out as a studio space for two recent painting graduates from my alma mater!

My old friend Kris Thacker's photography show Anamnesis is up at our friend Pang's gallery, Skull City on Princess Street in Shepherdstown. His photography is quiet, rural, beautiful. The closing party is tomorrow from 5-8 - go see it if you're local!

I'll be at Small Press Expo (SPX) next weekend as always!! I'll be in the K island alongside my friends Monica and Jamie, and among other beloved folks, Sept 13 & 14th. I'm also hosting a figure drawing workshop, but it filled up in ONE DAY (!!!!), so I'll tell how how to potentially get in next week if it's possible!

BAD NEWS followed by GOOD NEWS: the monarch caterpillars in my yard were being eaten by wasps ?!?!?! so I brought in two of them and look what happened:

I'll keep you posted on these little alien eggs.

Here are a few more photos to wrap up the week:

We had a wonderful tomato party that I didn't take photos at, but I did take this one photo the next day while I was cleaning up:

I harvested my first and only carrot!!

I'm gonna eat it ten minutes after I post this.

Look at the tiny stars in this orange gomphrena I grew from seed!!

Here are the little gifts from my friends. A bear from Whitney, a lil cup from Amanda, happy cat planter from Kestrel.

(The cat planter had a dead plant in it because I uuhhhh forgot it had a live plant in it.)

Fennel:

She's getting a little more bold about Quetza, but not much.

And of course, Quetza:

... who has gotten a little more bold about Ollie, too much. (This ended in hissing.)

See you next week, my daily comics friends! Thanks for reading and making this practice worth it. 🩶

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Comments

Christina

I would love that calculating worth/value comic on greeting cards to send to friends <3 <3

Prettydragoon

Garlic is a vegetable, not a spice. It is known.

Ursus Ridens

To quote or at least paraphrase a dictum of the immortal* _Impoverished Student's Guide to Cookery, Drinkery, and Housekeepery_: "It is difficult (although not impossible) to misuse garlic." I am compelled to believe, oh esteemed artist, that you may have here done the difficult.

Ursus Ridens

*...though not perfect: the work is in places quite wrong about rice and about fish.

The other Alan

I, too, when reading a recipe that calls for one clove of garlic interpret it as one whole bulb of garlic. Always makes everything better!

allanfranta

I try to collect smiles during the day. Today was a good day by that metric.

Amy Crook

The endless complications of getting cats (and dogs) to like each other or at least not be hissy babies about it still plagues our household, and the kittens are like four! Sigh. TriPod is doing well, he got his clean bill of health yesterday and official diagnosis of good boy, as well as his first monthly arthritis shot. He's having naptime in the room now after a nice time out, during which he walked all around the kitchen on his own three leggies!

Andy Ihnatko

Q: “How much garlic should I put in this?” A: “More.” (The judges would have also accepted the response “All of it.” Garlic isn’t supposed to be subtle. THAT’S WHY IT’S CALLED GARLIC.)

Andy Ihnatko

I keep investigating art generators. There’s definitely a legitimate place for them within creative processes but I think we’re still working out what that is. (While also keeping the ethical and environmental discussions front-and-center.) One of those interesting scenarios: building an AI that’s tuned specifically to your art style, and even your style of comics storytelling. That’s 100% doable right now, with a $3000 desktop PC and maybe a few grand paid to engineers. The result would be little different from the workflow of a creator of a popular syndicated comic strip in the 80s, who had long-since decided that he or she no longer likes to work. Your role is to play golf (or in your case, garden) and find an hour or two each day to drop by your studio. You look at and approve the writing and art you totally didn’t create, or marking it up with notes for revisions. Or, if it’s raining and you can’t golf today, or if there’s a documentary film crew present, think “I’ll use the layouts, but I’ll draw this one myself.” At which point it becomes trickier to demonize that kind of use of AI as aggressively as one might otherwise (again, apart from the environmental issues). These strips aren’t likely to be great. But we have ample historical examples of strips drawn by cartoonists who’d rather be golfing and who _didn’t_ have access to AI tools. This studio was always going to be publishing unflavored oatmeal. Similarly, I know some people (not me) who use generative AI to just to brainstorm, or as “someone” to bounce ideas off of. Once they think they’ve developed a good idea, they go off and write or draw it the traditional way without any use of AI. That’s not the same as “push this button and the robot will do your homework for you.” So it’s just…getting complicated. There’s still plenty about generative AI that’s plainly wrong, but there’s a lot of use cases where I’m No Longer So Sure.

William Cole

Garlic is a whole FOOD GROUP, my friend!

William Cole

I would love yo get invited to a Tomato Party!

Andy Ihnatko

AHH!!!! I’m in Curbside Freecycling heaven/hell, too!!! There’s this house near my library that’s being cleaned/emptied out slowly and methodically over a period of weeks. Every time I go to the library I overshoot a little bit to see what’s been put out. Today, I scored one of those terrific stiff-bristled broom heads (perfect for giving floors a hard scrub, or giving old carpets an aggressive sweeping-out). I was gonna buy one of those anyway! (“And where will you be using that first-generation Amazon Kindle, Andy?”) QUIET I’M SWEEPING MY RUG

Dean Reilly

Danielle, you deserve nice things. Believing you don't is a trap.

Minzoku Bokumetsu

I saw a donghua about making animation, and they had AI trained to do the in-betweens for keyframes, which is one of the better uses of the tool: automate the sucky part no one wants to do but automating making the *keyframes* is problematic; the more you remove every human from the process, the less it's something from the heart and more of a complicated Rorschach test

Tudza

So if you are kidnapped and they demand a dozen muffins/cupcakes you made, will the neighbors come through for you? Or, maybe you were kidnapped by a greedy neighbor.

Laura Bisberg

I've been waiting for the right daily to buy, and this net worth one was the one! I love it so much, and I can't wait to share it with my kiddos. I love the message and the cat in the accountant outfit. 😂

Karine Charlebois

Seriously, the assets one is a welcome shift in perception of personal value. Thank you for that jostling of my current thinking (I've been spiraling a bit).

Katrina Urmson

See… I read the end of your comic as NO BITE. (Said in firm but quiet dead pan, as one does, to furry family members who crawl under the covers and wander and sometimes test things curiously with their teeth. My user icon absolutely represents one of those critters. His name is Phoenix.)

Tim Pendergast

I've been without a car since 12/24/23 and among the many things I miss is the ability to drive around on Sundays and pick free things after all the Saturday yard sales. Meanwhile, last week I finally got around to repairing the 2 bookcases I picked up back in like 2021 or 22, so maybe it's for the best! BTW I love that accountant Pip has not only the visor, but also that weird arm thing that accountant in all the old movies have!

Indira

I don’t think I ever saw the full English version of Mulan but your title makes me want to follow with ‘to defeat the huns’ 😂

Michael Steamweed

People misread the recipe's directions about garlic. The Middle English word "clove" means "bowl" in Modern English. So when recipes say "add 1 clove of garlic", that just means to add 1 bowl of garlic. :D

David Neale-Lorello

I remember several years ago (gosh, almost 10, I think), Laurie Anderson was working with some university researchers on early versions of what we're now calling LLMs. She fed the program a whole bunch of her work and then asked it to spit out new work based on it. She shared in a couple of interviews -- and used in a couple of performances, I think -- some of what it produced and it was uncannily like her "real" stuff. (She was especially interested in how the program affected the line between what was "real" and what wasn't, given that it was all based on her original work.) BUT, she was quick to point out that the usable stuff was only about a third of the output: she said that there was about a third that made sense but was unremarkable and a third that was total gibberish. Seems like it's the nature of LLMs, i.e., it still requires a human to sort out the metal from the slag.

Christina Tran

i came here to say the same thing! or as a print. i would totally buy that one as a print <3

Cat

It was a delight to create horrifying AI images for classic short stories. Some of the ones for Ray Bradbury were absolutely absurd. I'll show you sometime.