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SPPY#3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by Dan of Earth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The SPPY <\/em>series arose from an attempt to turn the AI gremlins against themselves. When the artist Dan of Earth first heard about these artificial intelligence “Text-to-Image” things, he tried to get one to draw him an example of Antonio Prohias’ “Spy vs Spy” comic strip from Mad Magazine<\/em>. What it gave back to him was pictures of little monsters pointing guns at each other. Assuming he’d done it wrong, he tried again, like 200 times, each time getting a picture that was super amusing, but not a bit like “Spy vs Spy”. Dan ended up using various techniques from Brotchie’s A Book of Surrealist Games<\/em> to extend and combine the results into comic book form. This time around he wrote some software to generate “dialog” for a theoretical episode of The Avengers<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SPPY#3 Title Page<\/em> by Dan of Earth
10.25″x6.625″; digital collage; 2023. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

ABOUT THE BOOK
<\/strong>SPPY#3<\/em>
by Dan of Earth
60 pages; 10.25″x6.625″
$20
Self-published, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can purchase a copy from the artist’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Dan of Earth
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