Arty Visual Irreverence is a virtual gallery of AI-assisted humourous images/cartoons and accompanying short essays. Think "The Farside" meets Dall-E meets Philomena Cunk. If you like it, tell all your friends-- if you don't, tell all the people whom you're not really too fond of... there are probably more of the latter anyway... contact me @

The "Insectyside" series is an offshoot of cartoons I did years ago as a teaching tool for entomology students.

I was intrigued with the idea of recreating the original cartoons using the photorealistic image generation capabilities of AI. I was quite impressed with some of the output... other items had to be considerably massaged with graphic editing software.

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