by John | Nov 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Happy Veteran’s Day!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Frank Frazetta in the story “A Love of My Own” in Personal Love #24, 1953. Published by Eastern Color. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
The Abby Amour miniseries runs every Friday. Dialogue by Tony Isabella. If you’ve missed any episodes, no problem. You can catch them here:
Transcript:
BANNER LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour
PANEL 1:
SCENE: Abby Amour has her hand over her face and doesn’t feel well.
CAPTION: Abby is heading to the hospital…after eating some bad eggplant.
SOUND AFFECT: URPPP!
PANEL 2:
SCENE: Colonel Bluster is smoking a pipe and is lost in thought.
COL. BLUSTER thinks: Lt. Amour must have enjoyed our dinner. She sent me an eggplant emoji. I’ll invite her to that new Mexican place. Ah, there’s a taco emoji.
(We see a taco in his thought balloon.)
CAPTION: Alas, neither Abby nor Colonel Bluster…have even a basic grasp…of emoji slang.
1953 Art: Frank Frazetta Lettering & Image Massage: John Lustig
Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptBANNER LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour
PANEL 1:
SCENE: Abby Amour has her hand over her face and doesn't feel well.
CAPTION: Abby is heading to the hospital...after eating some bad eggplant.
SOUND AFFECT: URPPP!
PANEL 2:
SCENE: Colonel Bluster is smoking a pipe and is lost in thought.
COL. BLUSTER thinks: Lt. Amour must have enjoyed our dinner. She sent me an eggplant emoji. I’ll invite her to that new Mexican place. Ah, there’s a taco emoji.
(We see a taco in his thought balloon.)
CAPTION: Alas, neither Abby nor Colonel Bluster...have even a basic grasp...of emoji slang.
1953 Art: Frank Frazetta Lettering & Image Massage: John Lustig
Writer: Tony Isabella
Personal Love 24_6 16_3_Woman
by John | Oct 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Creation of an Image
You might think that creating images through artificial intelligence would be easy. And often it is. But, in many cases, you have to modify the image in Photoshop (or a similar software program) to get what you want.
Why? Because A.I. usually adds something unexpected and unwanted to the art. In the first image below the biggest surprise was that the woman’s breast was bare. So, I had to cover her up—plus remove some wilder bits of her hair. (Or is that a tentacle in the lower left of the image below?)
By the way, the woman’s nudity wasn’t something I requested in my image prompts. The MidJourney’s A.I. did that on its own—even though Midjourney has a policy against nude images. In fact, you can’t even use “sexy” as one of your MidJourney word prompts!
This was the image I started with when I created my “succubus.” Then I modified it—using elements from the images below.
Via Midjourney, I created many versions of this woman. MidJourney kept surprising me by making the woman naked—often with a malformed, bared breast. The elements of this image that I used for Last Kiss were the red eyes and the black streaks down her face.
Strange things sometimes show up in images created by A.I. Here we get some sort of spike in the woman’s eye. Why? I have no idea. But I did like the woman’s top and so I used that in the Last Kiss version. And that was the final element I needed for my image.
Transcript:
SCENE: We see a fierce woman with wild hair. She’s gorgeous—except that she he has blood-red eyes and a black substance leaking from her eyes.
SUCCUBUS: I’m a succubus! During sex, I feast on the life forces of my victims ’til they crumble…to dust! But… other than that…I’m a fun date!
Art: A.I. & J.L Dangerous Dialogue: John Lustig
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: We see a fierce woman with wild hair. She's gorgeous---except that she he has blood-red eyes and a black substance leaking from her eyes.
SUCCUBUS: I’m a succubus! During sex, I feast on the life forces of my victims ’til they crumble...to dust! But... other than that...I’m a fun date!
Art: A.I. & J.L Dangerous Dialogue: John Lustig
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by John | Oct 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
1948 artist unknown. Based on a panel from the “Kit” story in America’s Best Comics #28. Published by Standard. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
YOUNG WOMAN: Oh, no! My dog ate my text books! And then she ate yours! How can we cram for our sex ed test now? Did I mention that my parents will be gone…for hours?
1948 Artist unknown Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Dog Trainer: John Lustig
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↓ TranscriptYOUNG WOMAN: Oh, no! My dog ate my text books! And then she ate yours! How can we cram for our sex ed test now? Did I mention that my parents will be gone...for hours?
1948 Artist unknown Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Dog Trainer: John Lustig
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by John | Oct 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Vernon Green from the story “Love is to Blame” from Best Romance #7, 1952. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
SCENE: A young woman is talking to a stern-looking older woman.
YOUNG WOMAN: Your husband is cheating on you? Do you have any proof?
OLDER WOMAN: No! But he’s too happy! He must be up to something!
1952 Art: Vernon Green Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Just the Right Amount of Happy: John Lustig
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: A young woman is talking to a stern-looking older woman.
YOUNG WOMAN: Your husband is cheating on you? Do you have any proof?
OLDER WOMAN: No! But he’s too happy! He must be up to something!
1952 Art: Vernon Green Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Just the Right Amount of Happy: John Lustig
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by John | Oct 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Written by the legendary
Tony Isabella, the Abby Amour miniseries runs every Friday. If you missed any previous episodes, no problem. You can catch them here:
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Frank Frazetta in the story “A Love of My Own” in Personal Love #24, 1953. Published by Eastern Color. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
SCENE: Closeup of Abby and Colonel Bluster.
CAPTION: The Loves of Abby Amour
ABBY (thinking): The way the Colonel is looking at me! I’d better order and break the mood!
ABBY: The sticky buns are really delicious here!
COLONEL BLUSTER: I love biting into some sticky buns.
ABBY: *gulp*
1953 Art: Frank Frazetta
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptTranscript:
SCENE: Closeup of Abby and Colonel Bluster.
CAPTION: The Loves of Abby Amour
ABBY (thinking): The way the Colonel is looking at me! I’d better order and break the mood!
ABBY: The sticky buns are really delicious here!
COLONEL BLUSTER: I love biting into some sticky buns.
ABBY: *gulp*
1953 Art: Frank Frazetta
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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