Comic artist on talking with an AI hater: pencil and prompt don't have to be a choice
tisch_eins · x · 2026-10-01
A longtime comic artist recounts a conversation with an AI hater that left him sad — not because the person disliked AI, which he considers fair criticism, but because the discussion quickly turned personal.
His stance: he draws and makes comics the traditional way, and also loves experimenting with AI; the two don't contradict each other. "We don't have to choose between a pencil and a prompt. One doesn't have to destroy the other." He deliberately hid the other person's identity, framing the piece around the conversation itself, and asks: can traditional and AI artists coexist creatively despite total disagreement, and where's the line between passionate disagreement and a conversation not worth continuing?
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