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With editorial cartoonist Paula Pugh, the aftermath of Brad Holland’s death, more about a.i. Scott Adams, Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill’s Death to Pachuco comic book, and the Ann Telnaes and Patrick Chappatte get together with Jason Chatfield viewing.
We weren’t the only ones to notice Rob Tornoe’s interview with Walt Handelsman in Editor & Publisher. Editorial Cartoonist Paula Pugh for the Ojai Valley News riffed on E&P”s title for the interview.
Left Behind
Brad Holland died last Spring. Like all of us he had accumulated a lifetime of items. Steven Heller writes about what is happening to Holland’s belongings.
All artists, illustrators, photographers, designers and humans who make or have made creative things, face an inevitable question: What happens when what they’ve made, and all that is adjacent to the making process, is all that remains after they die?
Brad Holland’s remains include thousands of original, printed, finished and unfinished paintings, drawings, sketches, books, manuscripts and so much more. Much of it is currently residing in storage. But he also left behind things that inspired or influenced a legacy of artworks.
When A.I. Refuses to Leave Behind
As noted here (bottom of the page) modern day graverobbers have revived Scott Adams with A.I. technology.
Will Sommer at The Bulwark takes a closer look the Dilbert Creator’s AI Resurrection.
Dubbed “AI Scott Adams,” the synthetic creation, which first popped up on X and YouTube, looks and sounds nearly identical to the actual Adams. Its appearance has sparked a clash between the Silicon Valley wing of MAGA, which finds it all pretty remarkable, and many of Adams’s fans and family, who are horrified.
And it’s not just a still likeness: In a testament to how far AI video-generation technology has come, the mannerisms of the two are also deeply similar. So is the shtick: Robo-Adams even reenacts a “simultaneous sip”—the moment at the start of the actual Adams’s daily live show where he and his audience would coordinate the first taste of their morning coffee.
More from Aidin Vaziri at The San Francisco Chronicle:
In a post on Adams’ official account, a statement attributed to his family drew a clear line.
“For the avoidance of doubt, I am kindly but firmly asking anyone who believes they have approval to create and use an AI utilizing Scott’s name, image, voice, likeness and identity: you do not,” it said.
“The real Scott Adams gave explicit permission on the record multiple times for people to create and operate an AI version of him. So this iteration exists as a direct fulfillment of that stated wish,” the AI “Adams” wrote in a post earlier this month.
Death to Pachuco
It has been mentioned that it was Henry Barajas‘ comic book collaboration with Rachel Merrill that was the gateway for the artist to get the job of succeeding Rod Whigham on the Gil Thorp comic strip.
The final issue of the mini-series has arrived in comic book shops. Just before that Bleeding Cool News presented a preview/review of Death to Pachuco #5 by Barajas and Merrill with colors by Lee Loughridge.
The miniseries finale of Death to Pachuco #5 arrives Wednesday with a war for East L.A. and a life-or-death choice for Ricky. Is this really the end?
The series will be collected in a trade paperback scheduled to be released next month.
It was mentioned here that Jason Chatfield would host political cartoonists Ann Telnaes and Patrick Chappatte on his Draw Me Anything Substack (where no one draws anything this time).
The 46 minute dialogue is now available on Jason’s New York Cartoons YouTube channel.
Ann and Patrick are still in negotiations to get their Censure en Amérique published in America and other news (Ann returning to her animation roots for example).
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