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I use comics to make my course more engaging. Each question has a comic strip that explains what question is trying to teach. For example, here’s the comic for the question that teaches students about prompt injection attacks: For each question, I use this prompt on Nano Banano Pro via Gemini 3 Pro: Create a simple black and white line drawing comic strips with minimal shading, with 1-2 panels, and clear speech bubbles with capitalized text, to explain why my online student quizzes teach a specific concept in a specific way. Use the likeness of the characters and style in the attached image from https://files.s-anand.net/images/gb-shuv-genie.avif. 1. GB: an enthusiastic socially oblivious geek chatterbox 2. Shuv: a cynic whose humor is at the expense of others 3. Genie: a naive, over-helpful AI that pops out of a lamp Their exaggerated facial expressions to convey their emotions effectively. --- Panel 1/2 (left): GB (excited): I taught Genie to follow orders. Shuv (deadpan): Genie, beat yourself to death. Panel 2/2 (right): Genie is a bloody mess, having beaten itself to death. GB (sheepish): Maybe obedient isn't always best... … along with this reference image for character consistency: ...

Scott Adams, the author of Dilbert, passed away last month. While his work will live on, I was curious about the best way to build a Dilbert search engine. The first step is to extract the text. Pavan tested over half a dozen LLMs on ~30 Dilbert strips to see which one transcribed them best. Here are the results. Summary: Gemini 3 Flash does the best, and would cost ~$20 to process the entire Dilbert archive. But if you want a local solution, Qwen 3 VL 32b is the best. ...

Thanks Pratap Vardhan – this was my best birthday gift this year! LinkedIn

Here’s a comic book analyzing my Google Search History. It’s a simpler version of my earlier post. I created it using PicBook, a tool I vibe-coded over ~5 hours. PicBook: https://tools.s-anand.net/picbook/ Code: https://github.com/sanand0/tools/tree/main/picbook Codex chat: https://chatgpt.com/s/cd_6886699abfb08191acf036f6185781be The code prompt begins with Implement a /picbook tool to create a sequence of visually consistent images from multiline captions using the gpt-image-𝟭 OpenAI model and continues for 6 chats totaling ~22 min. My review took 4.5 hours. Clearly I need to optimize reviews. ...

I heard a lot about the new image generation models last week. So, I tested to see what’s improved. I gave the prompt below to various image generation models – old and new. A Calvin and Hobbes strip. Calvin is boxing Hobbes, with a dialog bubble from Calvin, saying “Bring it on!” Stable Diffusion XL Lightning Stable Diffusion XL Base Dall-E API ...

I’m really looking forward to this Data Comicgen #event. Get the #data on 5 Aug Analyze it with #googlesheets Use Comicgen for #comics #storytelling Submit on 26 Aug It’s a great opportunity to find fellow data storytellers and comic enthusiasts – to see their work and share yours. And win awards. LinkedIn

My Goodreads 2020 Reading Challenge target is 50 books. I’m at 45/50, with little hope of getting to 50. (I managed 25/24 in 2019.) The 10 non-fiction books I read (most useful first) are below. The Lean Startup by Eric Reis. The principle of Build - Measure - Learn is useful everywhere in life too, not just in startups. Never Split The Difference by Chriss Voss. Shares principle-driven strategies to convince people. The 4 Disciplines of Execution by McChesney, Covey & Huling. Teaches how to build execution rigor in an organization. A bit long at the end, but the first section is excellent. Sprint by Jake Knapp. A detailed step-by-step guide to running product development sprints that you can follow blindly. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams. Dilbert’s author shares his strategies for life. Very readable, intelligent, and slightly provocative, but always interesting. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. Written as a story (like The Goal). Talks about the 5 problems in teams and how to overcome them. The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle. Explains the elements of strong cultures - belongingness, shared vulnerability, and shared purpose. Data-Driven Storytelling by Nathalie Henry Riche et al. Shares the latest points of view on telling data stories. My team and I read these chapters as a group. Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek. Inspiring when I read it, but I don’t remember what it said. Deep Work by Cal Newport. Shares tactics to focus. Practical and useful. I also started, by haven’t finished these four: ...

Richie Lionell demonstrating how #augmentedreality weaves in with #comics and #datastorytelling at the Indian School of Business The anecdote I loved about this event was when an attendee from the nearby AI workshop got bored, wandered in here, and was hooked ☺ LinkedIn

This is the most interesting thing I’ve seen in a while. Combining #comics with #augmented_reality, #datavizualization and #gamification Nice work Ramya Mylavarapu! https://twitter.com/i/status/1201170899434520576 Right amount of Data, Comic and Augmented Reality. Addictive like a perfect coffee! With @Gramener @musingswithcode @richielionell @thoughtisdead at @Agami_In pic.twitter.com/uGUbY2DGft — Ramya Mylavarapu (@MylavarapuRamya) December 1, 2019 LinkedIn

The Dilbert search index now carries 15 years worth of Dilbert comics — over 5,500 strips typed out. This is mainly due to the contributions of BFMartin (over 6 years worth of strips) and Paul Dorman (over 3 years worth of strips), myself (over 3 years worth of strips) and a long tail of contributors. You can search the strips here. While you can find strips as far back as 1989, you won’t see the images earlier than 2002 because geek.nl (whose images I’m shamelessly hotlinking without permission) only holds images that far back. But once you know the date of the comic (say 1991-02-03), you can visit the Dilbert official site at dilbert.com/1991-02-03/ and see the strip. ...

My second most favourite series from Calvin and Hobbes, where Dad teaches Calvin the wonders of science. ...

Calvin and Hobbes trivia quizzes.

Real-life Calvin snow art.

Comic Central offers comics downloads via eMule. This includes an Asterix collection (which is best read annotated. Comments rajesh 17 Jan 2007 9:22 am: great man thanks a lot niketha 27 Sep 2004 12:00 pm: Nice to see this website. Nahush Chaturvedi 27 Sep 2004 12:00 pm: Good job !!

Math comics. Including some Calvin & Hobbes.

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