The Letter Home (The Bestiary Chronicles)

The Letter Home is the fourth story in the ongoing series The Bestiary Chronicles, which explores a world overrun by monsters. It's 1967 and you'll meet Tommy Ray Wilson, a 19-year-old drafted to fight in a war against a very different enemy.

The series has been created using the Artificial Intelligence tool Midjourney. But while this new technology is a powerful starting point for image generation, advanced techniques are required to create consistent characters, settings and styles. This fully-annotated version of The Letter Home dives deep into this, featuring both the original story in full and then breaking it down page-by-page to give a behind-the-scenes look at how it was made. It begins by showing you how to create character style sheets with an easy-to-understand prompt guide, and then putting those characters into dramatic situations with examples from the story.

It's an ideal starting point for those who want to create their own comics with AI, and an inside look for traditional artists at how they might leverage this new technology as part of their workflow to explore new methods of visual storytelling.