Joe's AI-Generated Funnies 2: The New Batch

Is it already time for a sequel? Of course it is.

My blog generates very little traffic these days, so when an article even does moderately well in terms of views, I pay attention. Recently, I posted an article called "Joe's AI-Generated Funnies!" It was a compilation of cartoons and comics I had created with artificial intelligence. In other words, fake art for real jokes. I haven't gotten any feedback, positive or negative, about that article, but it got slightly more clicks than most of my content. So I figured it was time for a sequel. Luckily, I have plenty of this stuff lying around.

We'll start with my pitch for a 1980s Saturday morning cartoon:

I would have watched this.

A painful but delicious pun:

I guess they're filming a commercial for a grocery store.

It was not uncommon for live-action sitcoms to get animated spinoffs in the '70s and '80s. Here's my pitch for one they missed:

Again, I would have been a faithful viewer.

These guys took all the wrong lessons from Andrew Carnegie:

Don't you wish you were one of them, though?

I took a cartoon I drew as a kid and ran it through AI. This is what happened:

Ultimately, not bad.

This joke has been in my head a long time, probably ever since I heard Harry Nilsson's 1970 album, The Point! 

I think the guy on the left is from France.

I frequently go to a park, Lake Arlington, that supposedly does not allow dogs. But people take their dogs there all the time. You know, because it's a park. That's why I did this one:

I made the dog a Yorkie because of Best in Show.

Can you believe I worked in downtown Chicago for over a decade? That's what made me think of this one:

I haven't toddled in a while.

This is some alternate artwork for a joke I posted last time.

These are old-timey guys, so I thought they needed old-timey artwork.

This is just an album idea I had: 

Nice jacket, Shecky.

You may remember this joke from last time. Again, though, this is new artwork:

Inspired by Tom Wilson and Mell Lazarus.

This next one is a series of images that give you variations on the same basic joke. I think I made more of these, but you'll get the point after four of them.

A literal candy bar.

A literal... well, you get it.

See what I mean?

Okay, that's enough.

Last time, I told you that I couldn't sell a cartoon because the art wasn't professional enough. Well, here's the AI interpretation of that exact cartoon:

Is it professional enough now? Not sure why AI gave Kermit that necklace of green beads, though.

This next one's a little different. I took one of my own hand-drawn comics and asked AI to colorize it and redo the lettering. This is what I got. It kind of messed up his lapel pin, which is supposed to be a skull.

If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life...

I did the same thing with this sketch I did of outsider musician Daniel Johnston and his parents. So far, this one comes the closest to my goal of taking my own artwork and using AI to finish it. This is the look I want.

No joke here; just a portrait of a family.

I'll leave you with a couple of portraits of people I drew while on the Metra train, coming home from work. Again, these are hand-drawn portraits finished by AI.

Two people I remember seeing on the Metra.

Until next time, I bid you peace.