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stummvoll
stummvoll
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Short comic, 20 pages, sci-fi/cyberpunk
Personal project
Publisher: Koguchi Press (UK) / Self-published (Riso version)
This is a short comic that I created as part of the comic anthology “Koguchi Mag Vol.2: Neo Future” by British indie comic publisher Koguchi-Press. The project has been successfully funded with a Kickstarter campaign in 2022. In the Koguchi-version this comic is printed in black/white in a 18,5x26cm format and halftone patterns (scroll down to see it). To the right is a smaller sized self-published Riso version that was printed by Drucken 3000 in Berlin in September 2023.
The story is about a middle-aged office worker Jeff and his companion Luni, a holographic AI character who is esentially managing 100% of Jeff’s life, having the ability to read his thoughts and forsee his actions, monitoring his physical and mental well-being and so on. At some point Jeff hits a major crisis and Luni encourages him to go on a trip to space on his own.
Since the character Luni is an AI, I used Chat-GPT to write some of her dialogues. It was the first time that I’ve used AI in my workflow, and I ended up using it for structuring the story and spotting weaknesses in the script. I did not use it to write the story for me and none of the visuals were AI generated either! I gave the AI a very long and detailed prompt of what has to be said and how, and the AI made some suggestions. Most the times I had to further edit these, but some of it was good to use. Since I’m not a native English-speaker and Luni has a very particular childlike and quirky way of speaking, it was very helpful for me. Scroll down to see excerpts of pages and see some of my working process using Chat-GPT and Miro to structure and improve the story.
See the documentation of this project in my
Here are a few sample pages from the Koguchi Mag version.