by John | Oct 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Abby Amour miniseries runs every Friday. If you’ve missed any previous episodes, no problem. You can catch them here:
↓ TranscriptBANNER: The Loves of Abby Amour
CAPTION: Abby answers your questions!
LONG CAPTION: Dearest Abby:
Your hair and eye color keep changing in the
comics. Who’s responsible for this foul up?
—-Nuts About You
Dear Nuts:
No one! The Last Kiss team never makes mistakes!
For example, the recent radiation
leaks at the Last Kiss Mansion
were all planned and totally safe.
(Many of our employees aren’t
even suing us. And they’re
expected to live happy, healthy
lives for months. Maybe even
years!)
By the way, radiation is also the cause for my
constantly changing hair and eye colors. According to Last Kiss head honcho John Lustig, it’s because
I was bitten by a radioactive beautician. I don’t
remember it. But why would John (and his attorney)
lie to me?
IMAGE: Abby Amour
IMAGE: Monster/Employee
CAPTION FOR MONSTER: One of many happy, healthy, slightly radioactive Last Kiss minions!
Abby Art: Frank Frazetta Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Radioactive Employee Art: A.I. Smartie
Glow-in-the-Dark Writing: John Lustig
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by John | Oct 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
My thanks to Allen Freeman and model Felina Vie for the photo. (Yes, it’s a re-run, but seeing Felina again is always a good thing!) Lots of new Halloween gags on the way!
Transcript:
Woman (Felina Vie) holding a Jack-o-lantern and knife: I’m done practicing! Ready for your plastic surgery?
Text ©2016 Last Kiss Inc Photo ©2016 Allen Freeman
Model: Felina Vie Photo: Allen Freeman
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↓ TranscriptWoman (Felina Vie) holding a Jack-o-lantern and knife: I’m done practicing! Ready for your plastic surgery?
Text ©2016 Last Kiss Inc Photo ©2016 Allen Freeman
Model: Felina Vie Photo: Allen Freeman
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by John | Oct 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
1948 artist unknown. Based on a panel from the “Kit” story in America’s Best Comics #28. Published by Standard. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
YOUNG WOMAN: Oh, no! My dog ate my text books! And then she ate yours! How can we cram for our sex ed test now? Did I mention that my parents will be gone…for hours?
1948 Artist unknown Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Dog Trainer: John Lustig
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↓ TranscriptYOUNG WOMAN: Oh, no! My dog ate my text books! And then she ate yours! How can we cram for our sex ed test now? Did I mention that my parents will be gone...for hours?
1948 Artist unknown Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Dog Trainer: John Lustig
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by John | Oct 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Written by the legendary
Tony Isabella, the Abby Amour miniseries runs every Friday. If you missed any previous episodes, no problem. You can catch them here:
Original Vintage Art & Text
Transcript:
SCENE: The Colonel kisses Abby on the cheek.
LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour
CAPTION: As their surprisingly romantic dinner ended, Abby thought the Colonel
finished strong.
COLONEL: Thank you, my dear. I hope we can do this again.
ABBY (thinks): He’s actually very sweet. But he missed my lips. We’ll have to work on that.
1959 Art: Vince Colletta Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: The Colonel kisses Abby on the cheek.
LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour
CAPTION: As their surprisingly romantic dinner ended, Abby thought the Colonel
finished strong.
COLONEL: Thank you, my dear. I hope we can do this again.
ABBY (thinks): He’s actually very sweet. But he missed my lips. We’ll have to work on that.
1959 Art: Vince Colletta Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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by John | Oct 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Today’s comic is the product of artificial intelligence.
Oh, I know what you’re thinking: “John, your humor is always the result of intelligence that is somewhat suspect and artificial.”
True. But, for the first time, the art itself was created by a computer program. No human artist was involved. I just typed a few words into a program and after a lot of insanely lame images, I finally got this one. Then I wrote the dialogue and from there everything was pretty much normal.
Rest assured, the bread and butter of Last Kiss is always going to be old comic book images. But I do like the idea of having a new tool and new image possibilities.
By the way, sometimes creating A.I. art is easy. But it often doesn’t go the way you planned. (Why does that woman have an extra head? Are those blobs supposed to be fingers? Is that a gun in his pocket or…something else?)
As a teaser, below are a few other images that I’ve created while playing around with various A.I. engines. Warning: These are the raw images. If I use any of these, it’s likely that I’ll be fixing them up in Photoshop first:
Created using the Dall-E 2 AI engine.
Created using the MidJourney AI engine.
Created using the MidJourney AI engine.
Created using the Dream Studio AI engine.
Created using the Dream Studio AI engine.
Created using the MidJourney AI engine.
Transcript:
SCENE: We see a cat leaning over a chess board. He/She/It is talking to a dog who is off panel.
CAT: Checkmate again, Rover!
DOG: <Groan> So this must be why they say…“Dogs play checkers. Cats play chess.”
CAT (thinking): Plus…we cheat.
Art by A.I. Smartie Dogged Dialogue: John Lustig
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