Romantic couple in period costumes stands in a lush garden, styled

By @DavidP · May 14, 2026

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**Sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" - Shakespeare QT: Romance https://budgetpixel.com/p/25194 "To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything." — T. Tolis --- Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. --- For this QT I have tried the creation of a comic book using GPT2 (medium, high resolution) following the guidelines shared by @CaylaCatz in her blog "Using GPT 2 to make a comic book page" https://budgetpixel.com/blog/using-gpt-2-to-make-a-comic-book-page

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A romantic historical illustration in vintage comic panels showing a couple in elegant period attire amid a blooming garden. The warm, sepia-toned artwork features dialogue about summer days and timeless love, with ornate borders and soft, painterly details that evoke a classic romance mood.

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@CaylaCatz · May 16, 2026
I thought you'd be a natural at it since you had already done panel creations in the past. This is wonderful. In Japan, there were adult manga targetting college students with content like Shakespeare, Economics 101, and things like that, making learning more visually appealing. I don't think the professors ever assigned them but college students used them to absorb information in a more visual context. I bought an economics one translated into English. I was surprised at the complex concepts it introduced. We don't have anything like that in the USA.
@CaylaCatz · May 16, 2026
Yeah, I do like that about a liberal arts education, the way we can choose whatever classes we want to take as long as we finish the core classes for the liberal arts and for our major. I had to switch from a Bachelor of Arts which required a language. I was very bad at language. To Bachelor of Science which required a few more science classes which I was ok with. Physics was really interesting.
@DavidP · May 16, 2026
Ah physics - because I got an A for high school physical science a student adviser recommended I take first year physics - the first course taken by physics majors. OMG - it was mostly advanced maths, so brutal. Sure I only passed due to fitting the overall class marks to some kind of curve 🤣 If I could redo I would probably try to add a first year course in philosophy rather than physics
@DavidP · May 16, 2026
The magic is really all in GPT2. Going to experiment a little and will likely share more in my Discovering GAI series . . . at some point --- Cool idea to present information in a form that the learner's can relate to. And let's not get started on the education system 🤣
@DavidP · May 16, 2026
Thanks, seemed to fit the QT well. And thanks for the pointers on creating this in your blog.
@HumanRights99ChrisTellez99 · May 14, 2026
Normally I say no comparisons, but that was a good one..hahaha. Great work!! Be well do well,,
@DavidP · May 14, 2026
tvm - The Muse whispered, I heard, and found the opportunity to try the comic book
@DavidP · May 14, 2026
Thanks and Thanks - GPT2 is quite amazing in who well it does this
@Unleashed · May 14, 2026
David, that really IS amazing! I'm very impressed.
@sam4msl · May 18, 2026
I really need to learn how to do this 😁

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