Comic Books

  • Urlan, Cosmic Cat. An AI-Illustrated Experiment, some of the wildest throaway panels from the comic
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    Urlan, Cosmic Cat: the Making Of – Part 5: Interview with the AI

    And here we are with the mind-boggling final episode of the 5-article series bringing to you the “Making Of” Urlan, Cosmic Cat. An AI-Illustrated Experiment. You can read the Making Of – Part 5: Interview with the AI on Bee Lab’s website, in which the authors (more or less humans) speak with the AI artist about the creative process behind the graphic novella. Prepare for a very peculiar experience.

  • Symbiosis, a serial novel of wild space adventure and Cosmic Horror
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    Symbiosis

    Serial Novel (2024, Bee Lab; with Valentina Kay) A serial novel of wild cosmic adventure and mind-twisting space horror, published in bite-sized episodes perfect for a single reading session! “Absurdly original” – Peter Watts Modifying bees, genetically and cybernetically, did not save Earth from Eco-Singularity. But the surviving few who made it to Ganymede rebooted civilization as the Symbiosis: a covenant of humans and bee-colony superorganisms.Captain Petra, a bee colony, helms the starship Endurance—a traveling ecosystem reminiscent of a Mediterranean village (plus photosynthetic hull, greenhouse main deck, and dark energy sails). With her daredevil crew of varied lifeforms, they travel via the ridiculously dangerous icebreaking process, which implies converting into…

  • Urlan, Cosmic Cat. An AI-Illustrated Experiment, some of the wildest throaway panels from the comic
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    Urlan, Cosmic Cat: the Making Of – Part 4 (Interlude)

    Before venturing into the Interview with the AI (which I’m sure you’re eager to get to), we thought you were ready for some of the most sanity-jeopardizing unused panels you can find in the “Making Of” section of Urlan, Cosmic Cat. An AI-Illustrated Experiment. You can check it out in the Making Of – Part 4 (Interlude) article just published on Bee Lab’s website. Are you ready?

  • Urlan, Cosmic Cat. An AI-Illustrated Experiment
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    Out Now: Urlan, Cosmic Cat. An AI-Illustrated Experiment

    My new book is out! I’m especially happy about this one, because it’s also the first book I co-authored with my wife (and lifelong editor), Valentina Kay, and the first book we’re publishing with our brand-new studio, Bee Lab. Urlan, Cosmic Cat. An AI-Illustrated Experiment is a graphic novella ripe with action, cats, guns, aliens and cool stuff. Also, it’s an exploration of what can be done with these robots — the art has been completely realized with Dall-E 3 via ChatGPT Pro. In the Making Of section, we tell you how we did that, explore the process, and also interview the robotic artist. The whole thing is interesting, very…

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    Urlan, Cosmic Cat. An AI-Illustrated Experiment

    Graphic Novella and Essay (2024, Bee Lab; with Valentina Kay) About the Book: An AI-Illustrated Experiment to showcase what can be done at the end of 2023 through human-AI collaboration. A short but complete — and ultra-cool — SF/horror comic book, ripe with action and also featuing a fun Making Of and an interview with the AI artist! Urlan, Cosmic Cat is a ground-breaking exploration of AI-human collaboration in graphic storytelling. Written, edited, lettered by Daniele Bonfanti and Valentina Kay, the art has been fully realized with OpenAI’s Dall-E 3 through the ChatGPT Pro interface. A short but complete space adventure which weaves the emerging technology’s strengths and weaknesses into…