Episode description

Veteran cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar look back on their predictions for 2023. They nailed a few and failed a few!

PREDICTION SCORECARD

• Patreon will slowly entice people away from the Founder's level -- WRONG
• TikTok will be banned in the US -- WRONG
• CSP will unveil amazing features / Webtoons publishing -- RIGHT
• Webtoons publishing -- RIGHT
• Twitter fade -- RIGHT
• DC Comics implosion -- RIGHT
• No one will be using Mastodon (in large enough numbers to replace Twitter) -- RIGHT
• GPT 3.5 will be used for brainstorming and co-writing scripts using AI writing -- RIGHT?
• We'll see the first AI writing-art webcomic... and it will be good --WRONG
• Copyright law will catch up to AI art -- WRONG
• Blockchain is coming back -- WRONG
• Original art will become more valuable.

What we DIDN'T predict!

• Patreon's switch to social media
• Comic-Con loses its Hall H guests — and it was a big win for comics artists
• No replacement for Twitter... not BlueSky, not Threads (and definitely not Mastodon!)

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Brad Guigar is the creator of Evil Inc and the author of The Webcomics Handbook. Dave Kellett is the creator of Sheldon and Drive.