Drawn to Extinction

Drawn to Extinction

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The Betrayal Clause
How the comics industry was built on creative dispossession, and why Ai didn’t need to break down the door because it was already open.
19 hrs ago • Pete Trainor
Don’t Lose the Skin in the Game
If I hear the word 'Boomerang' one more time in reference to Ai firing and hiring, I think I might actually explode.
May 24 • Pete Trainor
Thirty Paintings, Zero Humans
A landmark study proved we prefer human-made art. Then it revealed nothing in it was human-made.
May 20 • Pete Trainor
The Art of Kenny Who?
Three men, three short stories, one fire axe, and the most accurate prediction of the AI age ever published in a weekly British comic.
May 14 • Pete Trainor
We've Been Here Before.
What the comics industry tried to tell us in 1990, and what every creative profession is about to learn the hard way.
May 14 • Pete Trainor
Don’t Outsource Your Thinking
The productivity gain is real. So is the thing you're quietly giving up to get it.
May 13 • Pete Trainor
The Man Who Counted the Dead
What a man inking a dome taught me about everything we're about to lose.
May 1 • Pete Trainor

April 2026

Would You Know If Nobody Made It?
The creative industries are balanced on a knife’s edge. Here’s what falls when it lands.
Apr 28 • Pete Trainor
The Machine Doesn’t Dream. It Replicates.
Drawn to Extinction is almost here, and before the extracts start arriving, here’s why this book exists.
Apr 26 • Pete Trainor
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