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Category Archives: Kittee Tuesday

Necronomicon Pages AI generator

07 Tuesday Nov 2023

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Necronomicon Pages – v1.0. This is only a LORA, something perhaps best thought of as a small plug-in for a large generative AI base model. The pages were made using this LORA with the EIDOMODE Stable Diffusion 1.5 Checkpoint model.

Here the indecipherable-ness of AI text is turned to advantage.

Also spotted, a new LORA for Hannes Bok – Golden Age Pulp Style – v1.0, for use with the SD 1.5 base model. May work well with Metropolis 1927 style.

And since this is also Kittee Tuesday, yes… there’s also a LORA for High Quality Cats – v1.0 and the more meme-friendly CuteCat – v1.0. Even a cosmic Space Cat generator. Though the LORA for the 200+ feline cat expressions they can make has yet to arrive. Still, these are perhaps useful for making “H.P. Lovecat” images.

AIs know Lovecraft

24 Tuesday Oct 2023

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I love that nearly all indie generative AI models know what Lovecraft looked like (‘indie’ because those of Adobe etc are quite obviously censored). And, increasingly, can also generate cats. Cats being a tricky creature, due to their natural camouflage and near-infinite contorting combinations of outline-shape.

Here’s an example from a new AI which makes retro pixel-style images…

HPL returns from the mailbox with his daily haul of letters, ‘zines, books and kittens.

From Kadath, from Joshi

17 Tuesday Oct 2023

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Comic Art For Sale has an original b&w variant splash-page by Juan Samu, from the recent Unknown Kadath series. John Carter, Ulthar cat, Dreamlands ship, tentacles, and side-hints of “Colour Out of Space” and “At the Mountains of Madness”. The ‘Little Nemo’ like figure appears in the comic.


Also relevant to a ‘Kittee Tuesday’ post, S.T. Joshi’s latest blog post has The Weird Cat anthology as publishing tomorrow…

The Weird Cat [is] still not officially published by Wordcrafts Press [but] its publication date is October 18.

He also notes, at the most recent Lovecraft Film Festival…

‘H.P. Loves Cats’, directed by Gary Lobstein — a five-minute film devoted to HPL’s worship of his favourite species.

“the purring friendliness was unabated”

10 Tuesday Oct 2023

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It’s 2023 and how and why cats purr is still a scientific mystery. They’re channelling cosmic star-winds from the Dreamlands, is my guess.

Meanwhile, a new article in the Catalan newspaper Vila on “Lovecraft pentinant gats”, partly spurred by the fact that…

the text of H.P. Lovecraft’s “Cats and Dogs” is now published by Males Herbes in Catalan, with a translation and short introduction by Javier Calvo.

I assume this is new, and the translation doesn’t seem to have been linked before on Tentaclii.

A visitor from Ulthar

08 Tuesday Aug 2023

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For Kittee Tuesday, a proof-of-concept comic-book page demo. With AI created images + Photoshop.

Elsewhere, Joshi’s anthology The Weird Cat is now listing on Amazon UK, for release just before Halloween.

Forthcoming: ‘The Weird Cat’ anthology

27 Tuesday Jun 2023

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S.T. Joshi announces a new anthology, The Weird Cat. Nope, not 1960s groovy hep-cat hippies in San Francisco. It’s the furry variety…

that this [anthology] has some features not present in other such volumes — notably its wide chronological range and its inclusion of fiction, poetry, essays, and even a letter (by Lovecraft, of course).

He gives the contents list. Shorter items only, by the look of it, so “Beware the Cat!” (1561) is not present.

While you’re waiting for the book, a new H.P. Lovecraft’s poem “Cats” (AI assisted short film) is new on YouTube. It’s amazing that AI knows how to craft a cat (an amazingly multi-formed creature, in terms of posture and silhouette) in a few seconds, let alone can put many of them on video at once.

KittensAI

06 Tuesday Jun 2023

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KittensAI.com, an AI image generator for H.P. Lovecraft. I tried it. No sign-up needed, at least for the first try. A bit slow, only one image at a time, but it obviously has some idea what Lovecraft looks like. Kitty has strange legs and a leg-tail. Possibly a shoggoth cross.

Meanwhile, on Dream by Wombo (one of the three best free ones), every day is Halloween. Three new free style modules…

Lovecraft: Unknown Kadath – the trade paperback

16 Tuesday May 2023

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The release of the collected trade paperback for the Lovecraft: Unknown Kadath graphic novel has been put back to 12th July 2023, at least according to Amazon UK. It was supposed to be due out in this week. The eight comic-book series is however complete, and Amazon has them all as a download set. Albeit at £7 more than you’d pay for the collected trade paperback, and without its extras.

The artwork is your usual ‘dynamic comic-book’ sort (think ‘Neal Adams inked by Gene Colan’), but I see that at one point the art drops into a nice homage to Winsor McCay and the surreal Little Nemo — whose run finished the year before Lovecraft wrote Kadath…

New in audio

09 Tuesday May 2023

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A Henry S. Whitehead Weird Tales double-feature audio reading, new on LibriVox. “The Shadows”, and “The Projection of Armand Dubois”.

A couple of months ago Horrorbabble also did “Lovecraft Less Travelled: 7 Obscure Stories” on YouTube, which includes “The Evil Clergyman”. I always associate this posthumous dream-fragment (1933, 1939) with Whitehead. Who as you’ll recall was also a man of the cloth.

And, catching up with recent SFFAudio podcasts. I see they recently had “Time Pussy” by Isaac Asimov. A back-of-the-magazine tall-tale from Astounding, April 1942. Very short, and somewhat macabre, but… 4D cats!

A new long interview with Michael Whelan / the last Voluminous?

04 Tuesday Apr 2023

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The lucky Monsters, Madness and Magic podcast bags a long new interview with the master fantasy and science-fiction artist Michael Whelan… “Visions of the White Wolf – An Interview with Michael Whelan”. A fascinating interview, in which the artist also muses on…

a curious circle of cats found on his roof at midnight

Also in podcasts, it looks like the excellent Voluminous podcast is coming to an end. The latest episode “The Unknown the Weird and the Impossible” is available now and has the blurb…

In what may be our last episode, we explore two letters: one from early in HPL’s life and one from near the end. We reflect on what we’ve learned over a multi-year deep dive into HPL’s letters and what it means to a be a Lovecraft fan.

It’s a been a great run, and leaves a fine legacy.

Unknown Kadath – trade release date

14 Tuesday Feb 2023

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There’s now a date for the trade paperback of Unknown Kadath, 17th May 2023. Pre-ordering now. It’s just convention that the comics trade calls such things “Book 1” or “Vol. 1”. It’s the complete series of eight ‘spinner-rack comic-books’ (aka ‘floppies’), in one book. It was actually seven, last I heard, so with eight we could be now looking at over 300 pages for the trade paperback including the alternate covers, art gallery, and bonuses. The final part is due as a ‘floppy’ on 26th April 2023, then we get the trade paperback.

Chaosium book wranglers, with added cats

24 Tuesday Jan 2023

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Chaosium has an interesting new interview video which looks at how Call of Cthulhu and other RPG books are put together, both in the past and today. The blurb uses “TTRPG” which is just industry-speak for = Tabletop Role-playing Game.

Elsewhere, Dave Higgins has a new player-review of Call of Catthulhu RPG. I think I may have spotted this back when it was a Kickstarter, but it’s expanded a bit since then…

the entire game is based in genuine cat behaviour seen through the lens of affection, creating a pervasive sense of whimsy, the rules based around play-acting veer even more strongly into the humorous.

For real-cats, ‘Strange Maps’ has the latest on the fast-changing picture of the great European house-cat migration in pre-history. Domesticated felines were in Poland in 6,000 B.C.

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