Animaleries is a 64pg book published by Fluide Glacial in 2015. It’s chock full of flights of fancy like these, involving animals and familiar objects & scenarios.

Solé was first published in ~1971, evidently influenced by the psychedelic culture of the times. Some of his work is a bit much for me (the Frank Zappa ‘dirty socks’ piece comes to mind), but his draftsmanship and imagination are undeniably top notch.

More about him and his work here.

  • JohnnyEnzymeOPMEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I am all for mixing in different kinds of artists and I really like the idea of a primarily comic art focused community that is also open to other forms of art, especially when there is some connection to comics.

    I feel that way too. And you know, little by little I’ve been trying to refine the sidebar text to make it less wordy and more clearer of purpose, and one of the changes was to point out that art was welcome, too, along the lines you just mentioned.

    HR Giger had such a strong impact on Monster design in all kinds of sci-fi and fantasy. His impact goes far beyond the Alien movies and comic books.

    Interesting. I hadn’t really thought about or noticed that too much, but I may not have been looking at good examples of such. Really, it would be almost impossible for his work not to have been widely influential, tho.

    May I ask how you came up with this?

    In the little bar of mini-icons above the comment space, the one on the right, “formatting help,” takes you to this page. ( I linked that specifically because IIRC when one hits that button directly, one’s unposted comment text gets wiped out :/ )

    [![](https://i.imgur.com/YuUI5Vu.jpeg)](https://i.imgur.com/YuUI5Vu.jpeg)

    Btw, the above code is also useful, as it lets a user pop out an image to see greater detail, as opposed to zooming in. And a little tip-- when in doubt as to how a user did something interesting in their post / comment, you can go to the three little dots (bottom right) and select the “view source” button.

    I’ll continue with the AI talk and sketch link in a PM. In the meanwhile, some food for thought is right here in our community, in which I debated a very big fan of AI art across a few comments:

    https://lemm.ee/post/7895573

    • NacktmullEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Interesting. I hadn’t really thought about or noticed that too much, but I may not have been looking at good examples of such. Really, it would be almost impossible for his work not to have been widely influential, tho.

      Giger had great influence on games too. One example that comes to mind is R-Type, one of my favourite classic video game series. The first boss looks like this:

      This is the last boss:

      I miss that game, might install MAME later

      Btw, the above code is also useful, as it lets a user pop out an image to see greater detail, as opposed to zooming in.

      Sounds like a good idea. I will try it out

      when in doubt as to how a user did something interesting in their post / comment, you can go to the three little dots (bottom right) and select the “view source” button

      Thank you! It´s really very helpful. I can finally put images in comments and not just in posts, while using my lemm.ee account

      In the meanwhile, some food for thought is right here in our community, in which I debated a very big fan of AI art across a few comments:

      Interesting discussion you had there and very good arguments were made on both sides. However, after reading it my main questions remain.

      1. Is writing a prompt for an AI a form of art?

      2. Is the resulting image a creation of the person who wrote the prompt, the people who developed the AI, the artists whose works the AI was trained on (often without those artists consent), or the AI itself?