This FREE AI Comic Book Creator is Incredible!

Today we're taking a look at Comic Factory, a new AI Comic Book/Graphic Novel generator that will create Comic Book pages from a simple prompt! It is pretty amazing, and covers a number of different styles. We'll take a look at how to use Comic Factory with Photoshop so you can make your own stunning graphic stories!
Also, we're going to take a look at Ideogram, a new AI Image Generator that creates really great art, with TEXT. Yes, you can actually prompt for text and Ideogram will create it for it! I'll take you through a walkthrough of the platform and show you all the ins and outs.
And last, there is some channel news, in that I have been hit with the dreaded KZbin Invalid Traffic Bug. I go over the details in the video, but for the long term health of the channel, if you would like to support my work here, please do consider joining the Patreon:
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00:00 📚 Comic Factory is a free AI comic book/graphic novel generator with various art styles.
00:30 🦸 Styles in Comic Factory: Japanese, Franco Belgian, American modern, 1950s, Flying Saucer, humanoid, haddock, and Amoricon.
02:18 Channel Hit with Invalid Traffic Bug
03:15 📜 Comic Factory works best with shorter prompts for creating unique comics through collaboration.
04:37 - Using the Marvel Method to create an AI Comic Book
06:51 🖼️ Comic Factory outputs can be edited in image editors for better narrative coherence.
07:57 🎨 Ideogram.ai offers versatile AI image generation with text prompts and various styles.
09:43 🧠 Ideogram is great for custom logos, t-shirts, stickers, and graphic design tasks.
10:55 🤪 Ideogram can occasionally have AI-generated text errors, especially with longer words.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

As mentioned in the video, the channel has been hit with the dreaded KZbin "Invalid Traffic Bug"-- if you'd like to support the channel, please consider joining the Patreon! www.patreon.com/TheoreticallyMedia

[@LouisGedo]

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[@LouisGedo]

The problem I see with all AI that attempts to do text is that, depending on the AI, it attempts to make all or most text all upper case 🤮. I haaaaate all upper case text for a variety of reasons. Until some AI fixes this terrible case bias, I'll stick with traditional text creation tools. The comic book model looks quite worthy of checking out though. 👍

[@eri7-11]

Try to turn off the embed link option on all videos, you can do a mass changing of this. This helped some people.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

@@eri7-11 did it yesterday! And over the weekend I’m just going to do the old “turn it on and turn it off” trick that some folks have reported (occasionally) works. But the whole thing has been super eye opening, and has really driven home the point that, for the health and longevity of the channel, I can’t rely on KZbin as a primary revenue source. Given the other options of Audience support via Patreon, or just taking on every sponsor that slides into my inbox? Well, that choice is pretty clear to me!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

@@LouisGedo hi Louis!! Great to see you!!

[@SeanSpitzer]

Keep in mind everyone you can't copyright any of this due to the laws just passed.... which is fair to the models (people) it pulls from.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

That argument is still in play. And to be honest, that only applies to US copyright law. I believe Japan has already decided to let AI fly, And you can copyright if the work has been transformed by a human, but there aren’t any definitions of what that actually means. How do you quantify what transformation is? If I write dialogue balloons, is that 10% a change? 50%? Who decides what that means? Personally, I think the whole fight is doomed to fail, namely because Warhol’s Campbell Soup artwork has already been upheld. The fairness thing, I totally get. Look, I’m a proponent of UBI, but that’s a whole other discussion…

[@NovaaGrind]

​@@TheoreticallyMediawith that type of ideology you won't mind people using your "work" as a baseline for tweaks and edits. After all if it wasn't for AI most people wouldn't have the opportunity to profit from professional artists. If copyright does side with the AI, everything will be up for grabs

[@anderslarsen4412]

​@@TheoreticallyMediaso you wouldn't mind me reuploading your videos with a "speech bubble added"? Or a watermark of my channel - would that be enough for you to consider it transformative?

[@TychonAchae]

@@TheoreticallyMedia - Is it? Whatever the US does, other countries will have to follow due to basic international agreements and treaties alone. You might want to re-check. Japan has not decided to just let 'AI fly', they've explicitly stated that the law still allows for copyright claims against AI. They've just made the distinction between generation vs. training, and that training is still ok for research and educational purposes, which is the same everywhere. Also the Warhol Foundation recently lost its case vs. Goldsmith, so no, just because Warhol's Campbell Soup case was upheld, isn't the blanket carte blanche as you think. So no, the 'fight' isn't remotely close to being 'doomed' to fail.

[@Zmau92]

​@@NovaaGrind Guys don't mind these talentless people, they always defend AI art because they cant do anything for themselves. It is true, if you follow that ideology so then everyone is going to copy each others to the end. Period.

[@MeNoOther]

The ai program doesn't allow uploading of my own character modelsheets. So it doesn't place my characters in the scene. But what this can do is set up the layout, and then I can draw my characters within the layout. Saving time.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Yeah. It’s kind of what I like about it. It isn’t a “prompt and you have a magic page” it takes human work to make it happen. It’s an important aspect of these tools!

[@SamuraiQuigs]

Thanks for all the great info! I love your channel!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Thank you so much! Me too!! Haha

[@madeinfrance06]

what i find especially lacking in those ai tools is the consistancy to keep characters or places ... it would be good to save models and keep them to try to generate and narrow scenes from them

[@FluxNomad678]

Really good point this looks pretty cool but I was wondering about the consistency weather for characters or even props like ships or buildings

[@Jason-nh2nk]

​@@FluxNomad678there's surely some people freelancing using ai. But idk what other tools they use.

[@LiveDogsMMA]

Yes I came here because I had an idea to see if anyone had something like mid journey but focusing on character, building and comics. I would like to create something where I can detail a character's appearance and personality generate those image. Then give that image a name. Let's say his name is Luke now when I talk about Luke the AI will recognize his appearance and put him in the scene Then you will always have Luke. Luke can write a motorcycle swim with dolphins or even eat a hot dog

[@christvsBrazilivs]

You couldn' t be more right. I try alternatives: using artists on inputs, ages of art/paiting/comic strips, and so on, but I think I will always only be able to create concepts with consistancy, not a great work with a same line of art.

[@FluxNomad678]

From what I'm seeing, some people try saving 4 to 8 best result pics and then using all of them in the prompt in future generations. Like maybe the 'average' of these is close. I might try this and also see how it works in MJ 6.

[@kurtisleeTV]

Thanks for this video. I wanted to ask since you mentioned but didn't go into detail: How have you solved the editing of the caption jibberish that AI attaches to the comic book illustrations?

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

I mean. The solve there is good old manual labor. You’ll have to go into Photoshop (or another image editor) and remove the original text captions via clone stamping (or maybe PS gen filll) and then manually redo it, either in PS or Adobe Illustrator.

[@enderprodigy3167]

This just blew my mind.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Right? It is awesome

[@petergedd9330]

Ideogram, looks good and free too, amazing. Thanks again.

[@harrygoldhagen2732]

Terrific find, Tim! I like how you used Comic Factory, despite its limitations, to make something creative and coherent. Have you tried Comic Life 3 for laying out those images? I used it for a graphic novel. It does all things comic except making the images. So you have panels, text bubbles, sound effects, filters -- it's really handy if you have images but would like prebuilt pages and appropriate tools. You can even lay out the panels in whatever way you want. It's something like $10. It might come in handy once MJ actually shows us the storytelling tools! And so sorry to hear KZbin cut your income. As if they don't take most of the money anyway. I hope you get many Patreon supporters, you definitely deserve it!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

I haven't checked it out, but I will now!

[@animtonni]

No he doesn't. He's promoting plagiarism software and stealing from artists... He deserves nothing

[@robinvegas4367]

@@animtonni - buggy whips

[@CorporalDavis]

gave it a try today after seeing you vid, not bad.. i think its good for getting a base idea and using that as a guide. Though i do believe in time it could generate a full book.. one thing is you could create set characters and the ai to know them with names and placing such in the comic book with the description it would be cool. Midjourney has something similiar when you create and ID and use that for characters. Really informative thanks so much!!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Agreed! It’s not 100% there yet, but that’s what I find so awesome about the current state of tech, it is at a point where, with some home brew solutions, you can get it there, but it still take a little struggle/effort. It’ll be “easy” one day, but I think when it is, we’ll look back on today as the era of unsupervised fun!

[@cmbaz1140]

I have been searching for something like this...thanks

[@user-ng7wv9xr3l]

Thanx for the vid, I too am a huge fan of European Comix and was excited to see a shout out to Humanoids Publishing.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Did you know next year is it’s 50th anniversary? It’s kind of amazing they’ve been kicking around that long, and I know they’ve changed hands a number of times, but I think Humanoids longevity can totally be attributed to sticking to their guns and continuing to put out those weird and incredible titles that no other major publisher would ever touch!

[@johnhorton9438]

Thanks, great video! The ideal use, speaking as a published comics artist/writer, is for me to be able to upload my characters and backgrounds and generate images. Then, I would export them to photoshop and lay them out in coherent storytelling pages. The text/balloons I can add with Illustrator in the usual manner. Another year or so of development, and we'll be there. Anyone know of any other useful sites? Exciting times.

[@almor2445]

The hard part seems to be getting the exact same character/ship replicated in different poses and situations.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Yeah, my current trick with all of these tools is to use very basic character designs: “a woman with red hair in a black dress” or that sort of thing. That will usually get you a relatively consistent character that you can modify with face swap tools, or Photoshop. That said; I think we’re only a few months away from seeing consistent characters in all these models.

[@ronamick3352]

Also the most important part.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

@@ronamick3352 Indeed. I think we're only a few months away from that being a standard feature with all of these image generators though.

[@WalkingAfterMidnightRadio]

@@TheoreticallyMedia If only there were an option to select characters, settings, objects, and design details on materials as defaults for a consistent narrative, not just the style. And a way to save those settings to carry over into later projects.

[@carlosalbertolealrodriguez5529]

Love your video, thanks for sharing this info.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

100%! So happy you enjoyed it!

[@pongtrometer]

Great find Tim, this will definitely help me storyboard an AI movie, I get stuck in la la land just marvelling over the outputs and lose track of the plot. Cheers 😀

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Haha, I know the feeling! That's kind of what I love about this-- You can start with a rough idea and then play with Comic Factory to see where it goes!

[@pongtrometer]

@@TheoreticallyMedia great tip for the scene generation, i just got claude AI to write me 10 scenes based on the overview story I gave it, and its doing a great job.....its kinda like being in a band , where the front man is just singing for us to write songs and play music to....similarly ai chat, is a great for structure, even when it's clueless about scenarios ...Im really having fun being creatively critical about what makes sense, so that one can direct the art you want to see. Its funny how some people don;t even proofread the outputs of their Fully AI generated video content and just publish it. Great presenters, such as yourself, with a wealth of knowledge, sense of taste and creative outlook, will always have the HUMAN edge over lazy automated content, that doesn't even care to quality check its content...anyhoo, keep up the great work Tim.

[@NERDDISCO]

Where can I find the document that you share at 3:17 with the “workflow and tech breakdown”?

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Yup, that was from a Reddit Thread that Julian posted. Lots of good technical info there if you've got the good brain. I have the middle teir one. Haha, I'll upgrade at some point...maybe more RAM? Here's the link: www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/163ikmd/wip_comic_factory_a_web_app_to_generate_comic/

[@NERDDISCO]

@@TheoreticallyMedia thank you very much! It seems that this is all done by prompting, not any specialized models, right?

[@MrB831]

wow this once again was amazing, good find with the ideogram and comic factory. you're like the AI Indiana Jones lol.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Ha! I’ll try not to pull a Crystal Skull at any point!

[@MrB831]

lol, i really appreciate your channel and hard work. once again from your honest subscriber. @@TheoreticallyMedia

[@rundajulesproductions7735]

I'm actually more of a fan of Danka's earlier work. That Comic Factory looks awesome! I don't understand why every old school art image creator tool from Paint to Photoshop had combined a way to add text over your image, but I've yet to see an AI art generator have that feature. Seems like it would be a no brainer. Ideogram is still hit or miss with the text. You can type in lyrics to be rapped or sung by music generators, but I can't get a little 14-point Times New Roman into my comic's thought bubble? Still pretty amazing/cool stuff! Hope YT shares the wealth better.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

You would figure that someone would have suss’d out a ChatGPT plugin to pop over an image. But hey, at least this keeps the lettering folks working! And man, that is such a lost art. I still can’t believe there was an era where they did that BY HAND!

[@robertdouble559]

Dan Clowes probably still does his by hand @@TheoreticallyMedia

[@eddysgaming9868]

​@@TheoreticallyMediaI'm old enough that I trained in constructing lettering by hand. (Do they still do that these days?) I only remember enough of that experience to admire the talent and skill of professionally produced work.

[@generalsci3831]

Okay, problem: None of the character models are consistent from panel to panel. Even in the late 90s and early 2000s with Spawn, there were fans that would write in why his shoulder pad had a different number of spikes from panel to panel. Here, the buggy is different from panel to panel as is 'Space Guy's' character model.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

True-- I think if you were to expand this idea, you'd need to bring it in to another platform for inpainting. Which, actually just proves the point that none of this is "easy"

[@professora194]

I needed information like this because AI in this space is somewhat new. I also subscribed to your channel as my first step in supporting you. Your type of work can bring more people into this industry who were reluctant due to limited budgets and staffing.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Excellent to hear! There’s a lot of content on the channel about the various platforms, and it can get a little overwhelming, so please feel free to reach out on the Discord if you have questions!

[@mikexhotmail]

Thank you very much for sharing.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Thank you for watching! (And commenting!)

[@brunoiowa1]

where do you go to edit the dialog in ai comic factory?

[@dirksabbe-vf2rv]

‘Armorica’ is the Roman name for the part of France we now generally refer to as Brittany. I think the ‘Armorican’ style may be a reference to the European comic ‘Asterix the Gaul’ which is situated in that particular part of France. I’m not sure though because this style in Comic Factory doesn’t match the style of the original comic very well. Anyway… great, informatieve work again Tim. Thank you!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Ahhhhh, there it is!! I couldn’t for the life of me connect Armorica to comics! Asterix is it! I kept thinking Nemo in Slumberland or Moore’s League of X as a style! I think with some Asterix-y prompts, that style might show through a bit more. I’ll say the models can be a bit finicky and picky about what it produces. Thank you!!!

[@julianbilcke6922]

I confirm! The style is a bit difficult to catch and we don't really see the difference I think, because I didn't want to be too explicit in the keywords. It would work better with a LoRA but currently the comic editor doesn't use one (the tool is more like an homage and its goal is to have fun, not to plagiarize living authors or copyright holders, so I'm trying to stay vague in the targeting of styles).

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

@@julianbilcke6922 thank you Julian! Both for the comment and Comic Factory!

[@TheWatchernator]

@@TheoreticallyMedia hm - it didn't look like Asterix though

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

@@TheWatchernator So, I think if you give it more of an "Asterix prompt" -- basically, something more in line w/ that style, it'll produce better results. Give it a shot and let me know!

[@ShellBeach]

Thanks, this is great

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

You’re going to have so much fun with it! I blanked out, but I wanted to do a whole David Lynch TM design with Ideogram. Eh, saved for another video!

[@coryreeve1]

Wasn't aware of Comic Factory. Looks awesome! Definitely going to check it out soon.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

It’s a TON of fun. Looking forward to seeing what you generate with it!

[@saralynnech]

I too am playing Alan Wake a decade too late! 😂Thanks for this great tutorial!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

I mean, the Danke Mindy novel is the quintessential version of the story, but the game is a lot of fun! Ha!! (Trying to finish it in time for Alan Wale 2!)

[@HauntedMinutes]

Hey Tim, I went straight over to subscribe because I really value your work. Thank you. Unfortunately I have a great sob story about the cancer and why I can't afford the big one- but I'm sure even my little bit will help. Strangely it didn't let me use Paypal - perhaps because I'm from Australia. Keep up the good work!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

I’m so sorry to hear this! And don’t stress AT ALL. Also; so sorry for the late reply! For some reason you ended up in the spam folder! Ugh! But I’m glad I found it!

[@user-hg1mk3cv4b]

tHANK you so much! this helped me a lot

[@jimlassiter749]

So, i wrote a musical comedy stageplay. Do i just enter/import the script text into the program and suddenly get a manga version....?

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Not quite there yet. This is best for simple and short stories, and really, you’re going to be playing with the generator as a sort of Ai collaborator. Now, if you’re got a musical? For sure you’re going to want to check out Suno, that is going to blow you away. I did a video on it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGrSkmaPf5WNrLcsi=XuzsQXE8MeYXo1Ew

[@stephanemorin7145]

nice video will check Comic Factory right away!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

It's so good! Even when it isn't hitting exactly what you want it to, the results are still stunning!

[@williambourque926]

It's not quite there yet, but considering we are in the early stages this sort of thing has all sorts of amazing possibilities.

[@wizards-themagicalconcert5048]

Great video and content mate,subbed ! Keep up the good work !

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Excellent to hear!! Looking forward to seeing you in the comments!!

[@RocketQueen71]

Thanks for making these videos !They have helped me so much and they have sparked my creativity and my imagination into a inferno!! ❤‍🔥🤘😎

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Excellent to hear! I have a water bucket if it gets out of control, but let’s let it burn for a bit!!

[@RocketQueen71]

@@TheoreticallyMedia Hell yeah!! But, you don't know me I'm like the energizer bunny and I just keep going and going and going......then I get burnt out. Ask my hubby. HE knows all to well. lol I have a hard time with having a balance with like streaming, content creating and LIFE OUTSIDE OF THE MATRIX. lol

[@juanitarodriguez8238]

As an artist, I feel sad with AI art... It might be a tool to help you with your art, but those of us who put specific style and much time practicing... I remember working hard to learn facial features and how my first ever portrait felt like an amazing milestone... Now anyone can just generate an image... Even if it doesn't replace real artists, evil company leaders are going to prefer "cheap and obtainable" if it cuts cost corners. It's already hard with regular competition to make a living as an artist. Now if you can't compete, regardless of putting your heart and soul into your work, it'll be even harder.

[@LisaandtheRatRangers]

It can be discouraging, but I don't see how this would replace you in any fashion honestly.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

“Evil company leaders” are going to bone you as an artist, AI or not. Have you seen mid-low tier artist page rates for Marvel or DC? They’re below minimum wage. Don’t focus on getting a job drawing Batman. Spend your efforts to create something you own. Something that your audience recognizes as you. Build and cultivate that audience. That’s how you make it as an artist. (That does for every medium of art)

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

I’m not saying this is the original poster of this comment, but: having now done a bunch of these videos and interacted with a lot of people via comments, there is an underlying attitude with some naysayers I’ve come to recognize. There’s this defeatist “I’m not going to bother trying because of this technology” not “I’m quitting my profession because of this technology” it’s “I’m not going to try” Making a living in art is perhaps the hardest path you can choose. Some view AI as a barrier to entry, and it’s an easy scapegoat right now. But what they don’t realize is that there are 1000 other obstacles behind that. Again, not speaking about or to the original comment here…

[@falsedelic]

I'm not going to waste time crying about AI. It's pointless. Every artist is aware of the 1000 obstacles related to making a living as an artist. I don't think there is another profession that typically has "starving" as a common descriptor. Thousands of talented people have been dissuaded from choosing art as a career over the centuries because of that reality. I know many of them. AI is another (exponentially higher) barrier to entry that logical, thoughtful, forward-thinking young people will contemplate when choosing what career will allow them to pay off their college debt and feed their families in the future. And by the way, they're coming for your job as well.

[@loredo182]

Don't get discouraged, AI users will never experience what you just mentioned, the marvelous feel of nailing a drawing, a creation, something you can proudly say, I drew this, with pencil and paper. You just say something really important with all this AI dumbness, it is just an image generator, it has always existed but now it is much more polished. Art is a journey, being a pro artist is hard, and now even harder, but with your creativity and passion, plus hard work you can pull it off. Best of luck and keep going!

[@ignacio-fernandez-sarasola]

Thanks for the video and easy explanation about the website. Unfortunatelly it does not work too fine. After plotting a simple story I have found that it says "Generating a new story", and after some seconds, the panels remain blank. I could only make it work 1/10 times I tried to. Lot of potential, but still much to work to improve.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

You might want to try now. I know the dev was updating it-- might be working better at this point!

[@ignacio-fernandez-sarasola]

​@@TheoreticallyMedia Ok. It could be the explanation of the problem. Yes, now it works really fine. A good tool indeed! I enjoy a lot the availability of different comic book styles. It would be great the possibility of a panel by panel description, and to select the number of panels for page. But the tool is really impressive.

[@robertdouble559]

Wow. Pretty cool. Marvel Method indeed. Was thinking the same thing.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

I love using the marvel method, it’s such a unique way of working that can lead to some pretty unexpected results.

[@robertdouble559]

@TheoreticallyMedia it can be a really effective positive feedback loop

[@garypick]

the CB generator must be seeing a lot of demand. I tried multiple times and never got a comic. It finally worked.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

It is kind of a “garage project” that is run by one person. I can imagine there’s been some traffic strain recently. Maybe a little duct tape and a kick will get it going again!

[@giri.goyo_yt]

Never knew about that Lee bait and switch move there. Did Stan ever hang with Walt? Cuz… At any rate, when Stable D first came out in collab I was all over that and created a strange, abstract paneled comic. This just makes me want to transfer those prompts over to Comic Factory! Damn you, Tim! And I was just partitioning myself so well between the myriad other models! ;)

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Haha! Sorry! I know how it feels! There’s a point I think- it’s almost like guitars for me. You can buy all the guitars, amps, recording software, pedals etc. But at some point you have to say: “this is what I’m working with” and just do it, Tougher with AI tools, since they come out so quickly and there is SO much cool stuff they do! On the Stan front? Yeah, it’s a difficult situation to square. On the one hand, he screwed over a lot of artists, but on the other, by making himself the “voice” of Marvel in the early days- he might have been responsible for its success. There’s two sides to everything, of course, and Stan can easily be portrayed as the villain (I’ve met many that consider him such), but honestly at the time, comics were a disposable trash medium that didn’t make a lot of money. None of those guys could have ever predicted that their work was going to be worth billions 50 years later!

[@giri.goyo_yt]

@@TheoreticallyMedia All that is true. You're a fair guy and see all sides. Yes. The greats like James Brown, Paul McCartney and Prince all had similar strategies. Ultimately they were the hardest working, auteur types so they had to get their visions out the quickest and best way possible.

[@giri.goyo_yt]

On the equipment front, when it's free it's even MORE tempting!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

@@giri.goyo_yt yup! Put up or shut up time! Except that time is everyday!

[@dwainmorris7854]

Can you use your own character design to make comics with? That is consistent with the same characters and the same costumes. And every frame screen or was it just random like AI usually is?

[@kennycooper294]

that would be the greatest if you could get ai to duplicate your own style

[@dwainmorris7854]

@@kennycooper294 and people

[@randalllara3789]

thank you!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

100% welcome!!

[@unknownfilmmaker777]

Thanks for the video.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@DivineMisterAdVentures]

Wow this was better than the one on 1/4 for Scenario. Let's update this one - both products.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

So this one is kind of a garage-band project...and by that I mean, it is one guy, literally working in his garage (or home studio) on it. He kind of works on it in his spare time, so updates are...well, infrequent? I do still like it a lot though!

[@DivineMisterAdVentures]

@@TheoreticallyMedia That's incredible. (What's his day job??) Have you tried to use Stable Diffusion to in-paint to get a consistent look - the helmets for example? We are approaching 1000x human ability to keep up with the news in the aggregate. We may hit that this calendar year. Dealing with that is my one-man product strategy - but i have no traction yet.

[@Miguel81556]

The idea is interesting... if there was a way to train the generator . I think I understand how to use it.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Technically, you could use the code to train a LORA, but that wasn’t the intended use case. But- it could be done.

[@andrewrak945]

The style of the art @3:32 reminds me of Moebius comics... Saw this look in my early Heavy Metal graphic novel days

[@PhonicArchaeology]

I had no idea about Ideogram or Comic Factory. Can't wait to start playing around on both! Also, Alan Wake is such a great game, it's timeless so doesn't matter that your 12 years too late.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

I love the episodic structure! I don’t have a ton of time to play games anymore, so the whole: ok, you’ve finished this “episode” is great. Also, the recaps, so I remember what the hell was going on! Hoping the sequel follows the same format!

[@earthe432]

Comic factory does not keep character consistency dont pay

[@GameplayTwist]

How to download the ai comic book generator from the link it is the app and then confusing pages to click around for download?

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

He’s been playing around with the layout, you might have caught it at the wrong time, I think I saw that he simplified it, so swing back over and check it out!

[@chariots8x230]

Not bad. I would love to see an AI tool that is able to accurately copy our original characters, and generate images with them by displaying them in a consistent way in each scene.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

I think we’ll see something like that in the next three months. Fingers crossed here as well!

[@robertdouble559]

Some application of control net should be able to make that happen

[@nzlemming]

Have a look at what Corridor Crew have been up to with "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

[@I.Am.Nobody]

@@TheoreticallyMedia once we can have consistency set, maybe even cooler would be feeding an AI the comic/any comic, to produce a cartoon with voices and animation etc

[@scottiefutch6073]

You can do something similar one image at a time with 'reference' controlnet in automatic1111. Not always 100% but pretty close. AS for generating panels... yeah more people need to focus on that concept along with this.

[@ThompsonBrosStudios]

oh man, I hope to see more styles with this comic thing, it's sweet!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Same! It’s a lot of fun!

[@WickedlNl]

How do you save these prompt results...when I try to click save or print at the bottom, nothing happens. Using macbook pro.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Same. Try again in a bit, I know Julian was playing around with the UI. The button might have gotten lost in an update. Just remember: this is just a dude working in his garage, not a fully fledged company product. Haha. It is literally a garage band!

[@WickedlNl]

@@TheoreticallyMedia ok thanks for the reply!

[@jeffbruno847]

The comic generator is a cool idea but the consistency is a real problem when you're looking at 4 panels on one page and the characters look different on each panel. One person may be wearing a blue suit on one panel, and a white suit on the next. For me the best solution is to pair stable diffusion with loras to individually generate each panel, and using inpainting to redo any inconsistencies.

[@robertdouble559]

Remember how shitty almost all AI art looked 12 months ago? Just wait.

[@vinnie830]

@@robertdouble559 yeah. just 2 more weeks. You have no idea how difficult it is to create a good comic page. these examples are just random pictured put in frames. not a comic page.

[@828burke]

​@@robertdouble559they're literally describing how it's going to improve lol.

[@Tim753100]

“Choose the style” = “Pick which group of artists were stolen from to train the AI”

[@David-Obermiller]

But isn't that what real artists do? Emulate the artists who inspire them?

[@louisdanhoff183]

Thank you

[@frankleemorris2431]

shame about the invalid traffic... your great channel deserves better. thanks a lot for your work!

[@paullenoue8173]

Let us know when Comic Factory allows you two remix separate panels, then I'll get it.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Well, it’s free…so you can mess with it now. But yeah, that would be a great function!

[@GERARDOARTdiAlvinoG]

Thanks ⚡

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Thank you for the comment!

[@expressvideoediting]

I happen to make content for comic book and related topics so this could come in handy. I’m thinking of even turning that into an actual service. Thanks for sharing :)

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

If you so mainstream stuff; it seems to know the names of the major characters, Batman/Flash etc…obscure X-men? Probably not!

[@Nice-n-Retro]

What a lovely video and thank you for bringing Comic Factory to my attention! It's a great idea and I managed to get some lovely 1950's style panels out of it... I'm on my iPad and discovered that if I long-pressed on each of the panels, I could drag them up one-at-a-time to another tab to be able to download the full-sized image. Each image is 1024 pixels on the longest side and sometimes contains much more 'image' than appears in each of the comic frames. I also could drag each panel directly into the Photos App on my iPad with the same result - full size images! I haven't tried it on my PC so not sure if it works on a desktop, but it's great on an iPad! This might help you avoid the 'cutting and pasting' that you mentioned in your excellent video and use the full-sized images directly in your comics. Cheers!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Oh, no joke! That’s awesome to learn! Hmmm, maybe it’s time to pick up an iPad, since my kids killed my last one. Just need to find a spot to hide it…

[@garybuettner7920]

Interesting, but where does this art come from? Is this scratch made by the software or it based on something preexisting? What are the copyright implications? How much futzing before it’s not just ai?

[@BeauregardHall]

THIS IS PERFECT! Thank you so much. I've been trying to find something to help me with storyboard images for my book -- just ways to keep me writing in the right direction.

[@jasonclark7894]

Not positive, but "Amorican" might be a play on Alan Moore's work through American publishers. The style shown reminds me of the detailed backgrounds in things like LXG and Top Ten.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

That’s 100% what I was thinking. Plus, maybe a little Little Nemo in Slumberland, but I’m not sure what that particular style of art is classified as. Great minds, though!

[@RealIsaiahSwift]

Bro... super helpful video....i also gotta say u look a lot like Tony Blinken

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Ha! I’ve been getting that a few times! Hmmmm, maybe I should get a few suits for these videos!

[@chaisewallis7110]

Is Ideogram designs usable for commercial use?

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Per their latest: that’s up to you. If you’re a design firm hired by Nike, and their policy is no, then no. If you’re a local pizza shop who is designing a new logo? Sure.

[@fameandfreaks]

I've been wanting to do this with the intent of selling a fully realized comic book online. Is that possible?

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

It’s possible. There might be some argument over copyright etc if you disclose that it is AI generated, but the truth is: that fight is ongoing and besides that, many counties have already OK’d data training…sooo. That said: what you’ll quickly find is that making it (which is still going to be challenging) isn’t the hard part. Getting people to read it, and/or buy it? That’s the tough part.

[@fameandfreaks]

@@TheoreticallyMedia Good to know! Thanks. I think if the subject matter (story, characters, etc) grabs people's attention enough it might work, depends what it's about I guess, that's the fun part to work with. Let's see what happens!

[@slimyelow]

excellent channel

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

appreciate it!

[@carlosfrostygreen6855]

Thanks

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Welcome!

[@wschomer212]

As a writer and artists, these new comic generation sites are pretty interesting, but they are really in their infancy right now. Anyone who already has a story, and a vision is going to find them incredibly limiting to use. Inconsistent characters/models, fixed panel layouts, and the bazaar interpretations of prompts to name few issues. The tech is moving so quickly though. Hopefully these issues will be addressed soon. With the fixed styles, I do wonder how quickly the audience will get burned out from the lack difference from comic to comic.

[@eddysgaming9868]

Audiences quickly become jaded to new technology due to their overuse. Like CGI use in films. I suspect the temptation to produce cheap material quickly will cause enough people to reject ai produced artwork, as being cheap and artificial. A compromise between ai and artists will have to be reached.

[@nayantaragautam8070]

😊​@@eddysgaming9868

[@stevescott3019]

Hi. Excellent review. Is there any way that I can create comic books chronicling the saga of me designing and building my world famous, sweepstakes winning hot rod, using my own photos for each frame where the content of each photo is used?

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Yes. For that you’re looking at taking you photos and training them in as a LORA. Look into Scenario, which I covered here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJCpiXZmntZkic0si=MYWgJhCPaZoQqjKC

[@russelltennant4218]

How do you get results like this on that site? No matter how I approach the prompts it won’t even load all 4 panels and misses the mark on most of the prompts at times.

[@richharvey9153]

Is there a link to Comic-Factory?

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Should be in the description!

[@user-tp8il8sd3b]

Well, Time, funny that you talked about the "Marvel way", as i was thinking about that for the time (in I suppose a not so long future) when Midjourney wil be able to achieve both Coherences from character design, and for style. Comic Factory is a good idea, but still on early stages to be really effective. And Ideogram is a great find, not just for the text generation, but as well because for once is not another clones of the Stable Diffusion models website that are popping up these last weeks/months. Finally, sorry to hear about the KZbin bug, truly hope for you you'll get past that. Keep your solid work (i did at least subscribe to your channel)

[@user-tp8il8sd3b]

ahahah, Tim, now you now as Time, father Time xD

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Haha, I should add that E to my name, might help me not be late for things! On the consistent character front: I honestly think we’re months away from that being a reality. MJ has talked about “storytelling tools” in development, and I tend to think that comprises Character, Location, and emotion. We’ll see though. In the meantime, I really love playing with these proto-systems to see how far we can take them!

[@user-tp8il8sd3b]

@@TheoreticallyMedia well, Tim(e) xD, pretty sure MJ will go that way, and that will unleah a fury of creativity (i'm a searcher of comicbook style, so i'm already experimenting to find such aesthetics). This tool is interrting that's for sure and continue experimenting, that's the future.

[@nicolerosen7957]

Armorican reminds me 1950/60s British Eagle comics

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

For sure. EuroComics for sure-- Some speculated that it was based on Alan Moore's League of XGentlemen work, which in turn was riffing on those comics.

[@wealthmaterialized]

Very insightful and highly informative. Thank you!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Excellent to hear!

[@rickarroyo]

wow, finally comic book with other styles! I had seen one that was limited to manga style. Thanks a lot for the tips!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

The manga style is for sure the most popular, as it obviously has the most widespread reach in terms of global reading…but, I agree: I’m really happy this features a lot of the European style that often get overlooked!

[@rpzseries-2256]

If you learn to draw....

[@Zoltarman]

Excelent review. The APP still have bugs and it is not possible to repeat the character.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

I do think that’s coming to all these various platforms in a few months. Someone is going to crack that open and then they’ll all follow!

[@webslinger67]

how did you keep your characters consistent looking, i keep getting different looking characters....

[@hagardeviking9314]

Can I upload figures I invent myself? And use them as a basic figure?

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

There’s actually a better tool for that! Going to be covering that one in about a week! Stay tuned!

[@tendevils869]

thank you a lot! I needed exactly that! 🤩

[@Gothic.Spectre]

If I had do that with a AI and then use that to make a 3D movie with that would be great for me

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Check out the latest video on the channel to see what that might look like! Literally the best AI 3d animated style film I’ve seen to date!

[@DocVore]

Pirate Software recently worked with the community to 'fix' one of the traffic bugs on youtube,

[@rawnny]

Is it doing consistent characters?

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

It CAN, if provided with LORAs, which the base model does not have. That said; it is open source, so perhaps someone will pick up the mantle and run with it?

[@castielvargastv7931]

American 1950 looks a lot like old aupwrman comics which i leally love

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

I think that particular model nailed the look! Totally agree!

[@EgonCom]

Regarding Comic Factory: How would You make AI maintain design of character between prompts?

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Technically you can’t. That’s an issue all of the AI generators work now. The workaround is to use archetypes. Like, in this: an Astronaut. Because the bot will mostly use the same idea of an Astronaut over and over. There are always nagging details that it’ll miss, but you can fix them via photoshop or image editing. Stuff like, James Bond, Woman in a black dress with red hair, etc. those are the (bland) characters that tend to result in very similar (though not exact) characters.

[@CG-dt1ij]

Love the music!!! Any tip on what it is??

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Oh, thank you! I actually write and record that myself!

[@CG-dt1ij]

Would love to have a link to it… not for commercial use but for only pleasure… is it possible?… even if paid for… 🙏🏻❤️☮️

[@pantherman8719]

That looks nice and all. And the sound of free is enticing until it's not free lol

[@suganbhuvaneshkannan808]

After ai comic generation can we get copyright and publish in webcomic, bilibili.. Etc?

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

So, to be honest: in my super non legal opinion, sure. It’s part of a larger rant I’m brewing, there’s obviously a big fight brewing about copyright etc, but ultimately it doesn’t matter to you and I. Legal teams are going to duke it out, and I’m sure it’ll make its way to the highest courts. But- A) This is just US law. Japan and other countries have already decided that Ai art is completely fine. B) this is a legal issue. You’re a creator. Don’t let paperwork stand in the way of you making stuff. Think of early hip hop/rap. I mean, the EARLY stuff: those artists didn’t care that they were looping copyrighted records. They were just creating. Do that. Or…maybe become an old school rapper? I don’t know, how’s your flow?

[@mf--]

You just cannot complain if someone else generates the same thing.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

@@mf-- that is 100% true. Although I think the likelihood is fairly low. Unless you were say, doing a Batman comic, which would be fanfiction anyhow. I suppose if you had a bland idea like “Harry Potter, but they’re Cats” someone could “copy” you, but I also tend to think that idea wouldn’t gain much traction. Quality storytelling will hold an audience, nothing more.

[@tonyg.9710]

Great channel. The things AI can simplify and time reduce for one is insane! Is taking the completed AI comics generated and posting them in various platforms ok in terms of copyright? Are they ok to post as comics on KZbin for example? I'm assuming the idea behind the work is our own? Appreciate any help anyone can offer on this topic.

[@Lewis_74]

Ive just tried to register and they need your bank card details first. They say it's a free 3 day trial before they start charging you £39.99 a month. Apparently you can cancel before they charge you but it looked like they were going to take the money anyway, so I bailed out and stopped the transaction at the last second.

[@bink84]

Thanks i didn't know that. It would be so awsome if you could directly change the text in the speech balloon

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Given that Dall-E 3 is doing text (at a limited level, if you check out my video on it), I’d say a few more months. Something silly just occurred to me: I wonder if (when it does) it’ll have a spellchecker built in!

[@lenpreston1139]

Does it let you create custom characters?

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Not yet-- but Julian has indicated that someone can take the code and train a LORA, and then: Yes-- you would have that!

[@b.questor]

They say, "If you want to play the blues, you've got to pay the dues."

[@BillMausart]

Very interesting video- and the technology is amazing, but I do have a question- (an honest question about how you feel- this isn't meant as a way to upset anybody. I think AI will affect everything, not just art) -but as you promote the use of the tech for comic creation, what are your feelings about the fact that, at some point very soon, videos like this will also be created by AI? -replacing you and your channel, or at the very least, taking more of your traffic away and demonetizing you further? This is all uncharted territory, so Im not taking a stance here, Im just asking a question about how you feel about that possibility.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

As far as personally replacing me? I don’t see it. The channel has largely been built on 3 things in my opinion: 1) obviously the tech itself, and covering the latest developments as they happen. I get beaten by Matt Wolfe on this all the time. I’m pretty sure that man never sleeps. 2) My personality and viewpoint, or…dad jokes, for lack of a better term? So, truth be told, I generally write out every video in full script form. It is very dry and very bland. But as I’m shooting, I’ll start improvising, and going on tangents or coming up with non sequiturs. AI just isn’t good at that. 3) I do a lot of hands on examples on the channel. That is one thing I kind of pride myself on and is something that I think separates me from a lot of the other channels in the space. I’m not calling anyone out or anything, but most channels will say: “hey; here’s a thing, isn’t it neat?” Whereas I tend to do things like: “Hey, here’s a thing, isn’t it neat? So I made a recreation of the famous scene from Titanic, only using the tool, I’ve turned Jack and Rose into rabbits.” Even just in this video: most would probably say: Here’s Comic Factory, this is what it does…” but I’ll take the time to create 2 pages with it, and in doing so also talk about how awesome Mobius is. So, no. I’m not worried about AI replacing me. There are too many elements that comprise “me” that any AI system just can’t factor. And that isn’t coming from a place of ego, I mean that about all of us. Sure, there will be a sea of NPC AIs delivering the news soon enough, but I tend to think that people like connecting with people, so when someone runs across a video I made; they’ll come back. …or they’ll roll their eyes and say: “ugh, this guy again?”

[@BillMausart]

@@TheoreticallyMedia - I appreciate the thoughtful reply- the tools AI employs are mind blowing for being so new to the game, relatively speaking- and I hope that AI, indeed, helps people, but I fear that AI will start living "for" us instead of helping us live better for ourselves... I dont know if that makes sense, but its worth having meaningful discussions about, thanks:)

[@user-vh9bv1ym8t]

People like me people use this to make comics àre passionate ,them making something that they have wanted to make for a long time, even doing it in second means they will still cherish it I im doing a comic/manga by hand and I'm making a reversed one with this ai to compare it to my hand made comic for ideas and advice

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

That’s excellent to hear, and exactly what this kind of technology excels at! If you also do your own art, you might want to check out Prome as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmKQh6OLe62ie9Esi=snUUe4WezzhV5Zd4

[@WalkingAfterMidnightRadio]

Is there a way to download the pdf without it showing the scroll bars on the side and bottom? Can't believe it doesn't give you a clean copy. This adds the extra step of cropping it yourself.

[@gndbwtzbnr9967]

Cool this useful small comic make and make new way comic i try it good but nead some work

[@wolfen69]

Holy shit, I'm speechless. Been working for years on my first long form comic and this is truly disheartening.

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Nah, man. You still have your comic. Nothing takes away from that. Nothing. Take it from a guy who has published 2 comics!

[@giri.goyo_yt]

@@TheoreticallyMedia What the?!

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

@@giri.goyo_yt which part?

[@animtonni]

The difference is you've grown as an artist and a person while making that comic... AI teaches you nothing, it's as bad for your soul as Twitter is.

[@giri.goyo_yt]

@@TheoreticallyMedia That you published 2 comics! Where are these comics?

[@rangerscoach]

it needs some feature where you generate the characters first then place them in a space and the shot compostion should be analogue scroll in or out. im too old to learn how to do all this haha

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Haha, that's coming. I'd say by early next year we're going to be there!

[@TorQueMoD]

Great video and thanks so much for sharing! Holy crap this is amazing

[@djstumpy7399]

Can u recommend somewhere for creating a front cover for a comic , I've seen some cool tshirts of michael jackson Bad , smooth criminal amongst others , as a comic cover and have ideas for my own characters and fandoms

[@TheoreticallyMedia]

Look into Leonardo.ai. They have a really good free tier that I think you can have a lot of fun with.

[@djstumpy7399]

@@TheoreticallyMedia thank-you

[@StanleyNunn]

Excellent tools and tips sir. Thank you.