Brian Bolland 1986

Above and below, pages from IT'S ABOUT TIME: A Memoir in Pictures and Words by Brian Bolland, due Spring 2023. Shared by Bolland on his FB page. 

Don’t know whether this is of interest. Pages 27 and 28 of my memoir part 2 “Where Was I?”  I’m in 1986 here I think. Bolland

AI vs Moore

DALL·E: Alan-Moore anchoring Fox News with lion-headed serpent drawing.
Well, not the best Moore portrait I've seen, I confess...

On Rubik's Code they tried to recreate The Killing Joke book - well... just the first page - by using the script written by Alan Moore as prompt for Dall·E 2, an AI system that can produce images from a description in natural language.

Skipping the process steps, the final result of this experiment is... pretty rude (see below). So, Brian Bolland you have nothing to worry about these rising AIs!!!

For the details, READ HERE.

The Killing Joke page 1 produced by DALL·E. It's just a joke!

The Killing Joke, page 1. Gorgeous art by human Maestro Brian Bolland

Rubik's Code writes: "There are two major thoughts I have here. The first one is – there will definitely be a niche of AI-generated comic books, both scripts and illustrations. My feeling is that their style will be similar, at least in the beginning. Transferring a specific style from one panel to another is going to be tricky, but that might be solved sooner than later. [...] For now, I can see this as a tool that might assist authors to visualize their scripts better, and for illustrators to shorten their work by generating some details for each panel.

The second one is [...] I can see a future where comic book author uses tools to generate script based on a few keywords (take any GPT-3, T5 or whatnot) and then use another tool to generate illustrations, like Dall-E for example. Looking even more into the future, the author itself might be made obsolete and an infinite amount of content might be created in this automatic loop."

The complete article is available HERE.

Brian Bolland on The Bojeffries

Below, a text published by Brian Bolland on his FB page few days ago:

There's a writer that I'm quite keen on - Alan Moore. And an artist I'm partial to - Steve Parkhouse. Together they make a combination never bettered. I loved the series back when it first came out in Warrior. This collected and added-to edition only arrived in the post today and so far I'm loving it just as much. I've never met Steve. If I ever did I'd tell him what a big fan I am of his superlative art. Littered, as it is, with a fine drizzle of ironies, scattered circumstances and serious events. If, like me, you're sick to the back teeth of men in spandex and long for stories about accountancy and rent collecting - then this comes highly recommended for you.

DAILY MOORE [21]

Art by Brian Bolland.

Colors by John Higgins.
From: The Killing Joke.
First edition: 1988, DC Comics.

Smile!

Above, Brian Bolland’s self-portrait photo used as reference for his legendary cover of Batman The Killing Joke.