Adventures of Light and Dark
An early experiment in creative storytelling with AI: a graphic novel you read on your phone, 47 panels across 10 acts, built around a story I wrote a long time ago about learning to sit down with my own self-doubt.
- Status
- Published
- When
- The story, years ago. The graphic novel, January 2026.
Read the graphic novel → About five minutes. Swipe or arrow keys.
Why I wanted it
Years ago I wrote a first-person story about self-doubt. Not conquering it. Sitting down with it, the way you would sit across a campfire from someone you have been avoiding, and having the conversation. It sat in my notes for a long time, and I kept coming back to it.
It wanted pictures.
What happened
In January 2026 it became a short graphic novel: forty-seven panels in ten acts, about darkness, light, and finding balance. It was an early experiment for me in creative storytelling with AI. The story is mine. I broke it into acts and panels, described each scene, and had AI draw the pictures, then built a small reader for it that works on a phone, swipe to turn, nothing else to learn. The words in the panels are the story, cut down to a line at a time. The full story sits under the graphic novel, as I wrote it.
What it looks like
Dark pages, small figures, a lot of negative space. The darkness is drawn as a place with geography and weather, not as an absence. The beasts in it are terrifying when you run from them and dignified when you sit with them. Same creatures, different relationship.
What’s next
I have more of these in me. The campfire keeps showing up in other things I make, so it is clearly not done with me.