Another variant splash loading page for the new ComicBase 2026 that features a young witch with her bubbling cauldron and a group of summoned creatures. Image was inspired by a Mike Hoffman sketch.
[Workflow: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) to create the base look. Affinity Photo to finish the moon, forest, magic wand+hat, fog, add moon, etc. Topaz Gigapixel to upscale some flow as needed.]
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| inspiration sketch by Hoffman |
Another variant splash loading page for the new ComicBase 2026 that features a young boy named Peter running away from a creepy comic book thief! I then created a behind-the-scenes (BTS) and VHS tape image to go with it.
[Workflow: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) to create the base look. Affinity Photo to finish the store logo, background elements, fog, add moon, lamp+glow, etc. Topaz Gigapixel to upscale some flow as needed.]
I created a possible YouTube intro screen for Pete Bickford's (mostly) weekly ComicBaseTV livestream channel. Pete is even wearing Roddy Piper's clothes from the cult classic THEY LIVE movie.
[Workflow: Nano banana for helping provide elements to expand the poster, then everything else done by hand in Affinity for fonts, face mapping, poster merge, etc.]
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| my source image to be altered |
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| source for metropolis poster |
I created another variant splash loading page for the new ComicBase 2026 that features two young kids dressed up for Halloween.
[Workflow: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) to create the base look. I then imported it into Affinity Photo to finish the store logo, added an octo-creature, fixed other background elements, and I also used Topaz Gigapixel to upscale some flow as needed.]
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| trade dressed image as seen in CB2026 |
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| uncropped original virgin image |
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splasher loader as seen during ComicBase startup |
Charlie Brown in 3D was created while in a Slack discussion forum with Robbie Weinberg.
[Workflow: I fed Peanuts sample art into Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) to create a 3D version. I then imported it into Affinity Photo to clean up a few issues found while creating the background elements (poster, toys, etc), and I also used Topaz Gigapixel to upscale some elements of the image flow as needed.]
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| trade dressed image (currently unused in CB2026) |
Created another variant splash loading page for the new ComicBase 2026 that features the Metropolis robot girl (Maria aka Maschinenmensch) with a romance comic book. This splash loader is currently unused.
[Workflow: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) to create the base look. I then imported it into Affinity Photo, finalized background elements (books, poster, sky, etc), and I also used Topaz Gigapixel to upscale some flow as needed.]
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| trade dressed image (currently unused in CB2026) |
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| uncropped original virgin image |
I created a variant splash loading page for the new ComicBase 2026 that features a young Pete Bickford standing outside his local comic book store. The art credit for the program is attached below.
[Workflow: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) to create the base look. I then imported it into Affinity Photo to clean up a few issues found while creating the background elements (books, poster, sky, etc), and I also used Topaz Gigapixel to upscale some flow as needed.]
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| trade dressed image as seen in CB2026 |
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| uncropped original virgin image |
