Comic Creator Analysis

Have been working on a comics project for some time based on CoMix repo. This morning I thought – what if we added writer and artist into vlm analysis based embeddings – and other creators too. Did fine with panel text (in general).

So, gemini cli Gemini Pro 2.5 I gave this test page from Murder Inc: Jagger Rose to:

The resutl:

Based on the image, here are the creator names:

  • Created by: Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming
  • Colors: Taki Soma
  • Lettering: Carlos Mangual
  • Cover by: Michael Avon Oeming with Taki Soma
  • President and Publisher: Mike Richardson
  • Jinxworld Publisher: Alisa Bendis
  • Editor: Daniel Chabon
  • Assistant Editors: Chuck Howitt-Lease and Misha Gehr
  • Designer: Rick Delucco
  • Digital Art Technician: Betsy Howitt Brian Michael Bendis is primarily the writer and Michael Avon Oeming is the artist.

So very good!

Also, new Powers, there was a pleasant surprise – and it is good!

CoMiX

This is a cool project – attempting to get models to caption and analyse comics – https://github.com/emanuelevivoli/CoMix

https://github.com/emanuelevivoli/CoMix

Visual – Language models should be continually improving.

Try Gemma and Qwen for example and see how they go in a simple chatbot interface.

Webcomics

Just making a list of ones I have liked

https://questionablecontent.net/ – been going for 20 years – many sentient robots

https://www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/v1ch1-page-1 – What if Hellboy was a robot designed by famous inventors?

Spacetrawler – Half a dozen humans shanghaied by aliens to help try and free a race of technogenius inventors with no willpower – silliness ensues – the second one has a BOXING KANGAROO as a main character! This is brilliant!

https://ohumanstar.com/ – Robot inventor gets revived as a digital version

https://www.goblinscomic.org/ – A bunch of goblins discover they can be PCs too, meta-adventuring hilarity and pathos ensues

Freakangels – Mutant postapocalypse meets the Midwick Cuckoos

The Order of the Stick – Dungeon adventuring with very skinny limbs

Drugs and Wires

Steeple – A Satanist and a Vicar switch jobs, in the same town. With fish people and midsomer murders.

Digger – A wombat has fantasy adventures – not read enough to know ore

Stand Still, Say Silent – A Fennoscandian postapocalypse https://sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=3

The Subsitutes – https://www.thesubstitutescomic.com/comic/prologue-page-12

Spindrift – https://spindrift-comic.com/comic/01/16

Battleplug – Barbarian on dog

Kamikaze

Insufferable – Batman style manipulator and narcissistic sidekick

Athena Voltaire

Lady Sabre & the Pirates of the Ineffable Aether

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