Urlan, Cosmic Cat. An AI-Illustrated Experiment by Daniele Bonfanti & Valentina Kay

A ground-breaking exploration of AI-human collaboration in graphic storytelling.
Written, edited, lettered by Bonfanti & Kay, the art has been fully realized with OpenAI’s Dall-E 3 through the ChatGPT Pro interface.
A short but complete space adventure in gorgeous black&white (plus yellow) which weaves the emerging technology’s strengths and weaknesses into narrative solutions. Featuring an in-depth and humorous “Making Of” and an interview with the AI!

At the fringes of the dreaded Triangle, a sector notorious for vanishing spaceships, the legendary temple ship Magnificat reemerges after a century.
Enter Urlan—a daredevil, gun-for-hire cat armed to the fangs with a reconfigurable assault rifle and donning a twitchy holo-adaptive suit stuck on leather jacket mode.
He’s the only one cool enough to plunge headfirst into this cosmic enigma.