Support Your Local (or Distant) Cartoonist Mike set it up last year and we occasionally add to it and post it here for fans to support their favorite cartoonists. Recently Jim Keefe opened a Patreon account: My Patreon is a catch basin for all the things that I’ve learned in a career spanning some 30+ […]
Continuing with Mike’s plagiarism theme of this morning we come to MalMidjourney. During the New Year’s weekend, artists linked to a Google Sheet on the social media platforms X (formerly known as Twitter) and Bluesky, alleging that it showed how Midjourney developed a database of time periods, styles, genres, movements, mediums, techniques, and thousands of […]
“(N)o plagiarist can excuse the wrong by showing how much of his work he did not pirate.” — Judge Learned Hand Mike Lester (AMS) is hardly the only conservative to be dancing on the grave of Claudine Gay’s career, now that she has been pressured into resigning as president of Harvard University. I begin today with […]