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.

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.

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.

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 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.