Today's piece began on a plane to Seattle for PAX Prime. It is also something exclusive to Substack. I've been releasing things this way for a while; other social media platforms receive the KyoKayne comic strip, but more complicated pages and pieces are for Substack only. This strategy seems to have inadvertently worked out well for me, considering that the other social media platforms are stealing from artists' works without their permission to train their respective AIs. The webcomic will still appear in these places, and they are welcome to steal that art.
The style I use in the webcomic is intentionally basic, both so I can get more done, and so that it looks cartoonish, so hopefully people are less prone to get offended. I'm less accepting of them training their AI using Prodigy, Little Reaper, or any of my art pieces. Some of these pages took me at least a week of working eight or nine hours daily on that particular page. My efforts to conceal my work from them won't mean AI can't somehow find a way to access that content, but I don't have to make it easy for them.
The regular KyoKayne webcomic will return on Wednesday, with a few odd art pieces peppered in along the way. I plan to release new graphic novel pages within the next month, and I’ll have more to say about those in the next news post. Now I'm off to jazzercise and draw for a few hours before hunting a metal Sanic in Atomic Heart.