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[–]FortJables 67 points68 points  (4 children)

They use Adobe Caslon font if you're interested in matching that part of the aesthetic.

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    [–]ArizonanCactus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Mind making one about us cacti’s extinction crisis? (Which is real)

    [–]the_TIGEEER 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Almost no one does... remeber that.. almost no one does...

    https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ?si=6A5VID36lwKmNiW7

    [–]_phantastik_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I love how your pfp is the mini-zilla

    [–]gottabadfeelingabout 50 points51 points  (2 children)

    These are incredible

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      [–]gottabadfeelingabout 7 points8 points  (0 children)

      Followed! Love these, such a perfect blend of modern memey surrealism and old school “New Yorker” humor, I can’t believe it’s AI. I’m sure you have access to all of the original comics, but if you want some unique training data @time4gametheory used to be one of my favorite bot accounts to follow. Probably has thousands of examples to train your model on; would be interesting to see what your model makes of the phrase being repeated on every image

      [–]Jeydon 42 points43 points  (1 child)

      I love the submarine one, it might be too funny for The New Yorker.

      [–]KubrickMoonlanding 7 points8 points  (0 children)

      This is a legitimately great cartoon, spoof or no - topical, absurd and funny

      [–]HerbertWestdalle2 user 33 points34 points  (1 child)

      The Godzilla one actually made me laugh.

      [–]thirtyseven1337 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      It was the classroom throne that did it for me!

      [–]Factory__Lad 15 points16 points  (0 children)

      These compare well with “real” New Yorker cartoons.

      I’d relish a less respectful parody though, one where the jokes are more ostentatiously unfunny/obscure, and with less striking visuals.

      [–]throwawayjaydawg 29 points30 points  (0 children)

      These are way funnier than the New Yorker

      [–]Father_Chewy_Louis 9 points10 points  (0 children)

      I grew up reading my dad's collection of Far Side cartoons, I can honestly say that these are perfect!

      [–]sup_heebz 5 points6 points  (2 children)

      These are fucking hilarious. Make a sub and post them there too for those of us that don't twitter, I'll definitely join if you do

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        [–]sup_heebz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        YAAAAAAY

        [–]NegativeEmphasis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        These are brilliant, you got the style and subject matter pretty much nailed.

        [–]CodeWeaverCW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        4 and #6 are actually pretty good hahaha

        [–]lucid-heart 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Wow - I don’t usually understand New Yorker cartoons tbh but I recognize the dry wit and these actually made me smile

        [–]copperpin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        I think you nailed it.

        [–]MrTritonis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Some of these are pretty good haha.

        [–]Ok-Pangolin-3005 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        🔥

        [–]Desaparecere-dos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        These are really excellent, not like the usual sludge. It's got a fun twist, nice work!

        [–]EvilKatta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        This is amazing!

        [–]jellobend 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Some of them are really good

        [–]gwern 2 points3 points  (2 children)

        These are great.

        My only complaint would be that they tend to be much too visually cluttered and should have a lot deleted. Maybe inpaint them away or try prompting for more minimalism/abstraction/whitespace? Like the pool one is sabotaged by the random piranhas and the cutoff person and unnecessary city background, while the email one is frankly just bizarre - a biplane? cigar-chomping mailmen everywhere? A partially constructed skyscraper...?

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          [–]gwern 2 points3 points  (0 children)

          I tend to think that as AI stuff proliferates, you have to prioritize quality to punch through the haze and smog. So I would generally try to create 1 perfect cartoon rather than something which already looks rather '2023' and is triggering 'aillergies' in viewers already. That's just me, though.

          I was making cartoons my whole life, even professionally. Loved coming up with jokes, but hated drawing.

          I've tried making cartoons myself in DALL-E 3 and it can be an exercise in frustration. Natural language is a terribly crude and clumsy way to edit an image... If you can sketch at all, you can probably save yourself a lot of effort by using an image2image model approach like ControlNet, and simply sketch the stick figures and an object or two, and then have the model (SD or something, there might even be LoRAs specifically for New Yorker cartoons at this point) do the rest, and avoid the clutter and lack of control entirely. It may well be faster too as you waste less time dicking around with DALL-E 3.

          [–]aBitofRnRplease 1 point2 points  (3 children)

          Can you give an example prompt? Did you have the joke lined up first?

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            [–]aBitofRnRplease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            Wow. Well done, and funny! Quite a thought though for those in this business.

            [–]blackbacon91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            Thanks so much for being open and sharing this. Loved your cartoon so I want to go and give this a try.

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            [–]begayallday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Thought I was on r/LSD at first.

            [–]jp_in_nj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Feels more like Far Side.

            [–]Jazzlike_Win_3892 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            "just one hit bro"

            [–]dcvalent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            I love how the kid is much older then his peers lol

            [–]tasslehof 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Sir, you have Gary Larson's lawyer on line 2.

            [–]nedrine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Hey op did you write the jokes or did the ai make them

            [–]lateralflinch53 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            Damn it’s the end of genuine art and comics being impressive (cool I guess?)