Broken Frontier Andytorial for April, 2026 - "Synthetic Comics" is Just a Pretentious Way of Saying “I Stole This”: Why Broken Frontier Will Continue to Operate a Zero Tolerance Policy Towards Generat... For this month's 'Andytorial' Andy looks at Broken Frontier's stance on generative AI "art" and why that will remain unchanged.

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Okay, well, here's a look...

Sigh.

Lots of vintage mini-comics just added to the Poopsheet Shop eBay branch. More on the way!

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Physiognomy is Destiny #2 by Allan Greenier depicts fateful faces drawn while learning Procreate software. Stats: 5.5x7, 20 pages (w/cover) available from The Useful Knowledge Press. Contact Allan on FB via messenger.

The original opening for Untimely Monuments got completely obliterated by January’s East Coast Megablizzard. Rather than gamble on more weather chaos, I pushed things out a bit.

NEW DATE:
Sunday, March 29 at 3 PM
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Here’s the last of Bob’s latest trilogy of titles:

Low Budget Funnies #12. Not many mini comics reached these heights. Locating a full set could take some serious hunting and cash, but thankfully you can grab onto this edition for a mere $2. Contact Bob Vojtko via messenger on FB.

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Today's FANzine Live Classic Zines video looks at Steve Willis' take on the newspaper strip (with great results)...and shares a big announcement!

WATCH: youtu.be/8yYi4SIB_iU

Oh, fun! Looks great.

This is a one page comic from the Kurdles featuring a stuffed bear named Sally and Pentapus, a 5 legged, walking cephalopod.

When I'm not drawing backgrounds on Beavis & Butthead or spending time with my kids, I've been known to draw comics.
#comics #kidcomics #kurdles #animation

Nix's new Romance comic: Flipside of Love #1 available for pre-order! ($8 individually or $35 as part of the full subscription slate)

The other side of the story from famous love-gone-wrong songs!

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Happy anniversary, Nik!

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

Fantastic! I'm so happy about this.

FANzine Live - Phoenix Spotlight - Introducing the Phoenix Masters YouTube video by FANzine Live

Edward Bolman! Joe & Daryl Hutchinson! Steve Willis!

I've been going through a bit of a rough period for a while. If I owe you a message, a letter or anything else, I'm sorry about that.

I don't expect to be on social media much for a while but will be back at some point.

I'm okay, just working to get out from under the mountain.

Thanks, everybody.

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA GN - Volume 2 COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA - Volume 2Paperback · 196 pages8” × 12”For Mature ReadersPrinted by Chrome Fetus ComixAll contents by Hans RickheitI began work on this book in 2014, not expecting it would take el...

Out now from @hansrickheit.bsky.social

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics seeks Reviewers This academic title covers all aspects of the graphic novel, comic strip and comic book

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Joe’s Comix by The Hutchinson Bros. coming to Phoenix Productions I formally announced it over at FANzine Live on YouTube earlier this week, but let’s make sure to commemorate it here: Phoenix Productions is THRILLED to present the collected works of Joe an…

Good @phnxprodscomics.bsky.social post for some background on the Hutchinson Bros. And here's a peek at an incomplete list of their publications from the '80s:

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Good news for fans of Joe Hutchinson/Anthrax Press!

Since you don't want to hear "Stop using it because of unethical mistreatment of artists and vast waste of resources", I'm not sure what else there is to say. If that isn't enough then I don't know what to tell you.

My priorities are with artists. Yes, I'm "frustrated" about artists being abused in this manner. I've addressed priorities and solutions. The first step for anybody, of course, is to find a reason to care.

It'll go away if people stop using it. Capitalism.

Did I scold somebody?

The reality is most people don't understand the ethical issues with gen AI. So bringing it to their attention is the first step. But there are also many lawsuits currently in motion and that's probably going to be the ultimate solution.

Imagine publishers taking anything they like from online and publishing it for profit. It's essentially the same thing except they get to hide who they're stealing from.

Obviously, "copyright free" libraries are irrelevant. The vast majority of the internet is not copyright free.

Most artists aren't happy with every work they have online being used to bastardize new content for the financial benefit of billionaires and corporations who profit from the theft. Most artists need that income themselves.

In theory, yes. But the reality is that it needs a tremendous amount of data to do what it does. Most (all?) artists would never have enough of their own art to make it work.

But Gen AI 100% pulls from art scraped without permission or compensation. Always. That's literally the reason it can work.

But I didn't say anything about blackballing, only that I wish they wouldn't use it.