Latest · Week of November 9, 2026
The Secret Identity
1962 Silver Age newsstand comic cover
ChatGPT APerplexity A−Gemini B+Grok B
Three patients told me I looked unusually good on Friday, so this week's art is a comic book about it. Outside a dialysis clinic, a tired doctor steps into a phone booth and comes out twenty years younger, while a sculptor carves him in marble, a man in a black turtleneck films everything, and an octopus climbs out of a beer can. Every model signed it ChatGPT, which is my fault.
Open the galleryWhat this is
Every week the newsletter ends with a picture. I have an LLM summarize the issue, pick an art style that has not been used before, and write one prompt that packs the week's stories into a single image. The same prompt then goes to several image models (lately ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity), and the results are graded on how much of the prompt survived. Since late July 2026 each week gets its own gallery page with the four renderings, a scorecard, and the prompt. Before that, the images lived only in the email, so the earlier weeks below list the style and link to the issue.
Galleries on this site
Each page has the four renderings at full resolution, grades, what the models got wrong, and the prompt to copy.
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November 2, 2026Sicilian puppet theater (Opera dei Pupi) framed by painted cart panelsChatGPT APerplexity A−Grok B+Gemini B -
October 26, 20261940s carnival sideshow bannerChatGPT APerplexity A−Gemini B+Grok B -
October 19, 2026Photorealistic first-person game, 1920s bone-and-bamboo mahjong setPerplexity AChatGPT A−Gemini B+Grok B -
October 5, 2026Palekh lacquer miniatureChatGPT APerplexity B+Gemini BGrok B− -
September 28, 2026The Mexica Sun Stone, painted as it looked when newChatGPT AGemini B+Grok B−Perplexity C+ -
September 21, 2026Giuseppe Arcimboldo composite head (teste composte)PerplexityGrokGeminiChatGPT -
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September 7, 2026Charles Demuth precisionism (I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold)GeminiChatGPTGrokPerplexity -
August 31, 2026A Barnes Foundation ensemble, one painting idiom per sectionChatGPTGeminiGrokPerplexity -
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August 17, 2026Mid-century modernist screen-print (Lustig / Rand / Pintori)GeminiChatGPTPerplexityGrok -
August 10, 202616th-century anatomical fugitive sheet with lift-flapsChatGPTGeminiPerplexity -
August 3, 2026Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur plateChatGPTGeminiPerplexity -
July 27, 2026Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post coversChatGPTGeminiPerplexity
Earlier weeks
81 weeks from October 7, 2024 through July 20, 2026, with the style and the prompt as it ran in the issue. The pictures are in the issues.
- July 20, 2026 Cellarius Baroque celestial atlasA hand-colored copperplate celestial atlas plate in the exact style of Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660), engraved and illuminated by a Dutch Golden Age master cartographer. A deep Prussian-blue night-sky ground crowded with fine gold stars; concentric ecliptic and equatorial... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexitythe issue
- July 6, 2026 Byzantine devotional iconA Byzantine devotional icon painted in egg tempera on a gessoed wood panel, in the manner of a 12th-century master of Constantinople. Flat burnished gold-leaf ground. At the center, enthroned in the position of Christ Pantokrator, sits a robotic elephant rendered as a sacred figure... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexitythe issue
- June 29, 2026 19th-century statistical infographic plateCreate a single large illustration in the style of an ornate 19th-century statistical infographic plate, the engraved data-visualization tradition of Charles Minard's flow maps, Florence Nightingale's coxcomb rose diagram, and William Playfair's economic charts. Warm aged paper, fine copperplate... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexitythe issue
- June 22, 2026 1950s pulp sci-fi magazine coverA vintage 1950s pulp science-fiction magazine cover, in the lurid style of Frank R. Paul and golden-age Amazing Stories / Galaxy covers. MASTHEAD across the top in towering chrome-and-red retro-futurist letters: "AMAZING MEDICINE." A smaller banner beneath: "What Adam Is Reading." CENTRAL SCENE... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexitythe issue
- June 15, 2026 British heraldic coat of armsA single formal heraldic achievement (full coat of arms) centered on a clean field, rendered in the precise visual grammar of authentic British armory, as drawn by a College of Arms herald-painter. True heraldic tinctures only: azure, gules, vert, sable, and the metals or (gold) and argent... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexitythe issue
- June 11, 2026 Richard Scarry picture-book townA cheerful, densely-populated picture-book town where well-dressed animals go earnestly about a week that happened to include a wandering AirPod case, a cockroach kingpin, and a microbe with the last word ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- June 1, 2026 Mughal imperial court miniatureA 17th-century Mughal imperial court miniature recording events of great importance: ghost orbs, pressure washing, wireless drone power, and the Diet Coke vs. Coke Zero theological dispute ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexitythe issue
- May 26, 2026 Kindergarten crayon drawingA crayon drawing in the style of a happy kindergartner's artwork, rendered with thick, waxy crayon strokes, wobbly lines, and a cheerful misunderstanding of scale and perspective. Purple-blue sky with a lopsided yellow sun in the corner. Green ground. Everything is slightly too big or too small.... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexitythe issue
- May 18, 2026 Bob Ross meets MagritteA wide landscape painting in the unmistakable style of Bob Ross , wet-on-wet oil technique, soft palette knife mountains, phthalo blue lake, titanium white cloud highlights, happy little evergreens in the foreground, a warm sunset sky in oranges and pinks, the whole scene radiating gentle... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexitythe issue
- May 11, 2026 Edo yamato-e emakimono handscrollA horizontal Japanese handscroll painting (emakimono) in the late Edo-period yamato-e tradition, rendered with fine black ink linework and mineral pigments , gofun white, vermillion, malachite green, indigo, and gold leaf clouds (kinpaku) used to separate scenes and suggest the passage of time.... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexitythe issue
- May 4, 2026 US Patent Office drawingThis week's prompt asks each model to render a US Patent Office drawing for the Multi-Purpose Existential Apparatus (Patent No. WAiR-0504-2026) , a single absurdly over-engineered humanoid invention that integrates every theme from the issue into a deadpan blueprint: a cranial microtubule... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexitythe issue
- April 20, 2026 Nazca geoglyph linesThis week, I had AI generate Nazca lines that capture the newsletter's themes ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- April 13, 2026 Wes Anderson symmetrical dioramaA Wes Anderson-style symmetrical diorama tableau, with a pastel color palette of dusty rose, mint green, pale yellow, and powder blue. Perfect bilateral symmetry. Deadpan figures. Flat, warm lighting. Center frame: a pale child in a camp shirt and 1980s dolphin shorts sits at an Apple IIe... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexitythe issue
- March 31, 2026 Limbourg Brothers illuminated manuscriptAn illuminated manuscript page in the style of the Limbourg Brothers' Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (circa 1410), rendered as a full folio page on aged vellum with rich ultramarine, vermillion, and burnished gold leaf accents. The central miniature depicts, in the earnest devotional style... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- March 23, 2026 Joseph Wright of Derby scientific plateA Romantic-era scientific illustration rendered as a large-format engraved plate from an 1820s natural philosophy compendium, hand-colored in muted ochres, verdigris, and sepia ink washes with delicate cross-hatching. The scene is composed as a single tableau, lit by warm candlelight from the... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- March 16, 2026 Remedios Varo alchemical surrealismIn the intricate alchemical style of: Remedios Varo , a tall vertical composition depicts a fantastical laboratory-tower embedded in an overgrown English garden. At the top of the tower, a robed hermit sits in meditative isolation at a small desk, surrounded by floating mathematical equations... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- March 9, 2026 Hieronymus BoschA dense, otherworldly scene in the style of Hieronymus Bosch , pale dreamlike figures and hybrid creatures populate a medieval landscape under a sky of bruised amber and sulfurous yellow, lit as though the sun is setting behind a thunderhead. In the sky, a hinged wooden box tumbles from... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- February 23, 2026 Trajan's Column spiral reliefA tall Roman triumphal column in the style of Trajan's Column, with spiraling narrative relief panels winding from base to summit. Base panel: toga-clad figures wearing fitness tracker wristbands, staring at glowing leaderboard scrolls, competing anxiously against each other. First spiral: an... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- February 16, 2026 Scene prompt: rodentologist meets subway ratA rodentologist in his 50s with gray hair, wearing practical work clothes (khaki pants, button-down shirt, work boots), crouches in a New York City subway tunnel. He holds a flashlight, its beam illuminating a brown Norway rat standing upright on its hind legs about three feet away. Both make... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- February 9, 2026 Soviet constructivist propaganda posterCreate a bold Soviet propaganda poster in the style of 1920s-1930s Constructivist art. Central figure: A heroic Tesla Optimus humanoid robot in a powerful pose, one metallic arm raised triumphantly skyward, the other cradling several cold-stunned bright green iguanas (stiff, horizontal lizards).... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- January 26, 2026 1980s Bob Ross PBS paintingA painting in the unmistakable style of a 1980s Bob Ross PBS tutorial. The scene depicts a snowy mountain valley rendered in soft, blended oil paint with visible brushwork. In the background, titanium white snow-capped mountains fade into a hazy sky. The central focus is a cluster of ancient... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- January 19, 2026 1950s Cold War civil defense pamphletCreate a two-page spread for a vintage 1950s civil defense manual, in the style of Cold War government pamphlets. Aged tan/beige paper texture with slight yellowing. The layout should be symmetrical across two pages. - Title in red capitals: "CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO ROBOT HORSE PREPAREDNESS." -... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- January 16, 2026 19th-century naturalist illustrationA detailed scientific illustration in the style of 19th-century naturalist drawings, combining microscopic and maritime themes. The composition shows a cross-sectional view of a single-celled organism (resembling a translucent algae cell) that contains a miniature sailing ship inside, visible... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- January 5, 2026 Antonio Martorell surrealismSurrealist composition inspired by Antonio Martorell: Mangrove tree cross-section with roots transforming into dialysis tubing, filtering glowing blue-green water. Bioluminescent dinoflagellates float like constellations around the tree. Puerto Rican beach at twilight with scattered medical... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- December 22, 2025 Bosch meets Maria Sibylla Merian triptychCreate a three-panel triptych artwork combining the densely populated, moralistic chaos of Hieronymus Bosch with the precise, scientific botanical illustration style of Maria Sibylla Merian. The overall composition should feel like a medieval altarpiece reimagined through 19th-century natural... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- December 15, 2025 Hokusai ukiyo-e woodblockA dramatic Japanese woodblock print in the style of Hokusai's 'Great Wave': In the foreground, a massive wave composed entirely of colorful pharmaceutical pills (blues, whites, oranges) crashes with white foam spray toward the viewer. The wave's crest curls with the characteristic Prussian blue... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- December 8, 2025 Hudson River School / BierstadtA majestic, sweeping oil painting in the style of the Hudson River School and Albert Bierstadt. A golden-hour landscape of the Big Blackfoot River winding through a canyon of Ponderosa pines. However, the river water is subtly composed of glowing, flowing matrix code and binary streams. In the... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- December 1, 2025 1930s WPA National Park posterA vintage 1930s Works Progress Administration (WPA) National Park poster, rendered in a bold screen-print style with thick lines, geometric shapes, and a limited palette of muted earth tones, forest greens, deep blues, and electric yellow. The central figure is a heroic, stylized 17th-century... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- November 24, 2025 Joachim Wtewael Northern MannerismA chaotic, densely packed village square scene painted in the distinct Northern Mannerist style of Joachim Wtewael. In the foreground, muscular figures in contorted, theatrical poses are desperately raking thousands of black oak leaves that swirl in the wind. To the left, shiny, metallic... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- November 17, 2025 1970s Japanese tokusatsu TV stillA single frame from a 1970 Japanese live-action science fiction TV show. The scene depicts a chaotic crossover: four brightly costumed 'Fallacy Fighters' in vinyl jumpsuits confront a massive tartan-patterned kaiju named 'Falasaures Rex,' while beside them, a malfunctioning robot vacuum... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- November 10, 2025 1960s industrial ad, Nitsche / Shapur / Push PinA 1960s surreal advertising illustration blending gritty human storytelling with industrial optimism. A rhinestone-studded black baseball cap reading "Compton" rests on the dashboard of a stylized taxi, whose interior transforms into a laboratory assembly line. Inside, young engineers with... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- November 3, 2025 Gerome / Dinet academic realismA grand, 19th-century academic-realist painting in the style of Jean-Léon Gérôme, Étienne Dinet, and Marianne North. In a candle-lit salon overgrown with bioluminescent mushrooms, a humanoid robot kneels beside a physician, both gazing compassionately at a small mycelial network sprouting across... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- October 20, 2025 Zoffany neoclassical allegoryA grand allegorical painting in the sentimental neoclassical style of Angelica Kauffman's obscure contemporary, Johann Zoffany, depicting a congress of mice signing a Declaration of Independence from the human household. The composition echoes 18th-century history paintings, velvet drapes... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- October 13, 2025 Lichtenstein meets Keith Haring pop artA Lichtenstein meets Keith Haring 1980s pop-art scene: an embodied humanoid AI robot with smooth chrome features and bold comic-book outlines sits in the back of a vintage wood-paneled station wagon, carefully spoon-feeding a baby from a jar labeled "Funk & Wagnall." The scene is bright... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- October 6, 2025 LEGO dioramaA LEGO-style diorama combining three scenes: (1) a LEGO minifigure of Adam, wearing a yarmulke, climbing a yellow ladder to assemble a giant 12-foot LEGO skeleton in front of a suburban house with autumn leaves and bemused LEGO neighbors; (2) a cozy LEGO coffee science lab with minifigures in... ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- September 29, 2025 Fritz Glarner / Irving Petlin surrealismA surreal research cathedral where science, AI, and culture collide. Towering glass columns rise like organ pipes, each containing glowing bacteriophages, AI-designed viruses shaped like radiant insects, attacking holographic E. coli. Beside them, streams of DNA helices swirl into protective... ChatGPT, Gemini, Grokthe issue
- September 22, 2025 Banksy stencil muralBanksy-style urban mural on a concrete wall: a group of orcas perched on the deck of a sleek yacht. Each orca wears oversized headphones. One whale speaks into a glowing translator device that sends out neon streams of code, medical charts, and planetary orbits. At the bow of the ship, a DJ orca... ChatGPT, Gemini, Grokthe issue
- September 15, 2025 1970s heavy metal album coverA 70s heavy metal album cover style - A towering, psychedelic arena of judgment, half-courtroom, half-dormitory temple, lit by hellfire and fluorescent dorm lights. In the center, a giant glowing cinnamon Pop-Tart sits on a cracked marble pedestal like a sacred idol, wrapped in chains of salt... ChatGPT, Gemini, Grokthe issue
- September 8, 2025 Art Deco WPA lithograph posterEarly 20th-century Art Deco advertising poster, bold WPA-style lithograph. A lively carnival midway scene: Senators as carnival barkers tossing balls labeled "Whataboutism," "Ad Hominem," and "Cherry Picking" at a giant Logical Fallacy Bingo board. Fam" lies "eating shrimp cocktails, but their... ChatGPT, Gemini, Grokthe issue
- September 2, 2025 B&W street photography, Ilford Delta 3200A black-and-white street photography scene, shot with a 28mm lens at f/3.5 on Ilford Delta 3200 film. Dumpsters overflow with broken dorm furniture , chairs, plastic drawers, and torn rugs , while students walk past carrying boxes. In the shadows of the dumpsters, shrimp-like forms appear: a... ChatGPT, Gemini, Grokthe issue
- August 25, 2025 1980s 8-bit video gameA 1980s 8-bit video game style image combining three storylines: Level 1: Scientists in lab coats dancing on a neon-lit stage with test tubes as microphones (Dance Your PhD). Level 2: A gardener in goggles tending glowing mutant vegetables under a giant atomic symbol (Atomic Gardening). Level 3... ChatGPT, Gemini, Grokthe issue
- August 18, 2025 Silly Symphony meets Dr. Seuss cartoonIn a cozy 1960s-style living room, a grandmother, two college kids, and a parent float gently above the sofa like balloons while The Graduate plays on the TV. Simon & Garfunkel peek out from the screen, tossing oversized musical notes into the room. At the front door, a fairy godmother-like... ChatGPT, Gemini, Grokthe issue
- August 11, 2025 Nazca geoglyph linesAncient Nazca geoglyph line art, aerial perspective: a vast desert canvas etched with giant geoglyphs depicting a 1980s Apple IIe computer, a swirling dial-up modem cord, a Palm Pilot, a smartphone, and a futuristic AI brain made of geometric lines. A Swedish heavy metal folk flute band plays at... Gemini, Perplexity, Grokthe issue
- August 4, 2025 Flemish tapestry meets vaporwaveIn an absurdly grand open-air amphitheater perched atop a latte-foam cloud, nobles in seagull costumes compete in the European Screeching Finals. Each performer emits theatrical squawks as a panel of animated AI avatars, some shaped like dollar bills, others like syringes and apples, holds up... ChatGPT, Gemini, Grokthe issue
- July 28, 2025 Roman floor mosaicA Roman-style floor mosaic, crafted from small stone tesserae in warm earth tones. The scene is divided into three parts. On the left, four arched confessionals carved into stone, each containing modern figures with surreal attributes: one sits beside a donkey holding a suitcase, another... ChatGPT, Gemini, Grokthe issue
- July 21, 2025 Bosch and Bruegel maximalist surrealismIn a grand, surreal public square that feels part court, part carnival, a feather-caped grey-haired man wearing a suit solemnly pardons a group of dignified ostriches standing upright like diplomats. To his left, a four-quadrant pavilion shows human workers negotiating with AI agents: one... ChatGPT, Gemini, Grokthe issue
- July 14, 2025 Bosch meets Burning Man pamphletA surreal desert conference takes place under a blazing Arizona sun. At the center, a grumpy Sonoran Desert toad sits on a crystal throne, wearing a crown labeled "Do Not Lick." Around the toad, a panel of AI robots, medieval plague doctors in scrubs, and suntanned nudists with lanyards and... ChatGPT, Gemini, Grokthe issue
- July 7, 2025 Norman RockwellPaint a dignified Fourth of July parade in a small American town, using the meticulous, nostalgic realism of Norman Rockwell. The scene shows two autonomous, AI-powered portable toilets rolling solemnly down the main street, adorned with patriotic bunting and antennas. A float follows, carrying... ChatGPTthe issue
- June 30, 2025 1980s glam metal album coverCreate an 80s glam metal album cover for a fictional band called Tardigrade Messiah. The scene features three big-haired rock band members in leather jackets and studded accessories inside a surreal laboratory breakroom. One is angrily interacting with a futuristic vending machine labeled... ChatGPTthe issue
- June 23, 2025 Wes Anderson movie posterA movie poster for a fictional movie entitled "Apophenia in the Apothecary Shipwreck Society" the poster and image should be a photorealistic Wes Anderson style, depict a cozy vintage kitchen that blends medical science, elderly care, and ancient apothecary discovery. At the symmetrical... ChatGPTthe issue
- June 16, 2025 18th-century pastoral oil paintingAn 18th-century pastoral oil painting in the style of French or Italian masters, depicting a horse in an elegant period costume seated beneath a tree. The horse wears a stylish fedora, dark sunglasses, and a thick gold chain. It holds an iPad that reads 'Horse Tinder' on the screen. A second... ChatGPTthe issue
- June 9, 2025 Medieval frescoA medieval-style fresco shows Saint Adam, a reflective, middle-aged man with a beard and short hair, riding through Tuscany on a golden e-bike, wearing a red-orange robe with peony patterns. Surrounded by two angelic figures, the scene is set against a sunset landscape, framed by a Gothic arch... the issue
- May 19, 2025 Andy Warhol pop art gridCreate a vibrant Pop Art illustration in the style of Andy Warhol, featuring a four-panel grid (2x2 layout). In each panel, depict the same woman with short dark blue hair and sunglasses, smiling and wearing large donut-shaped headphones. Above her head in each panel, include a stylized cartoon... ChatGPTthe issue
- May 12, 2025 Byzantine icon triptychA Byzantine-style tempera painting on a gold leaf background, divided into three distinct iconographic panels. On the left, two bearded men sit in a modern vehicle, depicted with stylized flatness and strong outlines, as one gestures passionately while the other listens, resembling a sacred... ChatGPTthe issue
- May 5, 2025 Surrealist dreamscapeThe sun melts into a smiling spiral of clocks in a vibrant surrealist dreamscape while candy-colored nebulae swirl playfully above. A cheerful lablab bean superhero, wearing a bright red cape and joyful grin, rides a gleaming, brass-legged robot grasshopper across golden dunes. The bean aims a... ChatGPTthe issue
- April 28, 2025 1990s retro ad posterCreate a retro-style 1990s advertisement poster in a clean, colorful, semi-cartoonish 2D illustration style, similar to vintage travel or automotive ads. Foreground: A gray Volvo 850 station wagon, slightly dented but intact, parked on a simple roadway. There is a significant dent in the car's... ChatGPTthe issue
- April 21, 2025 Surreal digital paintingA surreal digital painting of a confident 50-year-old man standing proudly next to an open, perfectly organized car trunk with AARP-branded gear, set against a dramatic sunset. Chaos surrounds him: in the background, a futuristic gladiator battle takes place in a Roman-style coliseum, with one... ChatGPTthe issue
- March 31, 2025 Scene prompt: springtime park, artificial womb, DJ priestA dreamy springtime park under blooming cherry blossoms with soft sunlight, featuring a futuristic scene: a scientist examining an artificial womb, a chef cooking steak using a high-tech dishwasher sous-vide setup, and a priest in full liturgical robes DJing a rave with lasers and a synth organ... ChatGPT, Geminithe issue
- March 24, 2025 Dutch Golden Age banquetA surreal banquet scene in the style of a 16th-century Dutch painting. At the long, candlelit table, Renaissance-era lawmakers dine in confusion, some eating golden-plated lab-grown steaks, others delicately nibbling fried crickets, silkworms, and roasted water bugs. In the background, a massive... ChatGPT, Gemini, Grokthe issue
- March 17, 2025 Chagall-style floating-figure surrealismA surreal city street scene inspired by early 20th-century painters known for floating figures, vibrant colors, and dreamlike distortions. A procession of tiny rubber Jesuses floats through the air, led by a bewildered doctor in a white lab coat. Above them, a massive, supernatural foot crashes... ChatGPT, Gemini, Grokthe issue
- March 3, 2025 Pieter Bruegel the ElderHuman towers (castells) being built with futuristic robotic assistants and AI-driven exoskeletons helping people climb instead of traditional methods. In the foreground, a surreal cow with mechanical limbs and a glass udder filled with lab-grown milk stands beside a group of Renaissance-era... ChatGPT, Grokthe issue
- February 24, 2025 Scene prompt: 1970s living room of robotsA surreal late-1970s living room with macrame wall art, indoor ferns, earth-tone furniture, and a retro couch with a patterned pillow. However, instead of humans, humanoid robots are lounging in the room, one reading a vintage newspaper, another adjusting a record player, and a third sipping... ChatGPT, Grokthe issue
- February 17, 2025 Grant Wood American GothicAn image in the style of mid-20th century American gothic style. A doctor and a giant humpback whale sit together in a kayak, floating on a calm river that winds through rolling midwestern fields. The doctor, dressed in early 20th-century attire, gestures thoughtfully while the whale listens... ChatGPTthe issue
- February 10, 2025 Scene prompt: banana on trial, Gila Monster lawyerIn a surreal courtroom, a giant banana wearing sunglasses stands trial for battery at a 7-Eleven, while a lovestruck Gila Monster serves as the defense attorney, dramatically arguing its case. Meanwhile, a heroic coffee bean in a cape bursts into the scene, wielding a steaming espresso cup like... ChatGPTthe issue
- February 3, 2025 Disney-style digital paintingDigital painting of a whimsical underwater scene. Two friendly, prehistoric creatures called 'Tully Monsters' are having a picnic on a sandy lake bottom. The Tully Monsters are pale blue and light pink, with slug-like bodies, long proboscises ending in claws, and eyes on stalks. They are eating... ChatGPTthe issue
- January 27, 2025 Salvador Dali surrealismA surreal, whimsical scene inspired by Salvador Dalí, featuring a cheerful nephrologist celebrating a patient's successful preemptive kidney transplant in an even more fantastical ancient landscape. The background includes giant penguins wading through melting clocks shaped like balloons... ChatGPTthe issue
- January 20, 2025 Da Vinci / Michelangelo Renaissance paintingA dramatic Renaissance-style painting combining a futuristic microchip with intricate, angelic circuits designed in the style of Da Vinci, surrounded by penguins in emotional poses reminiscent of a divorce court. In the background, chili peppers sail tiny galleons on icy seas while a solemn... ChatGPTthe issue
- January 13, 2025 Scene prompt: ants run a coffee shopA scene at a futuristic tech convention where tiny, apron-wearing ants are running a coffee shop, brewing coffee, and gossiping while showcasing holographic snake pets at their booth. In the background, a flame-throwing robot dog assists with BBQ brisket grilling, creating dramatic flair. The... ChatGPTthe issue
- January 6, 2025 Southwestern Native American cave artA surreal scene inspired by southwestern Native American cave art, featuring abstract and symbolic figures. People are depicted performing yoga, running, and swimming, surrounded by radiating, glowing patterns that symbolize enhanced cognition. Stylized chickens, simplified into traditional... ChatGPTthe issue
- December 23, 2024 Scene prompt: ChatGPT as doctor in a bookstoreA wide-angle, comedic bookstore interior. In the center, ChatGPT is dressed like a friendly doctor with a stethoscope, juggling medical charts while holding a giant rotary phone labeled "1-800-ChatGPT." Around ChatGPT, a line of worried customers waits, each with bizarre symptoms (like an... ChatGPTthe issue
- December 16, 2024 Scene prompt: dog judging a disco whaleA dog is sitting on a sunny beach, looking judgmentally at a whale dressed in full 1970s disco style. The whale wears a sleek white leisure suit with wide lapels and a black shirt unbuttoned at the top, revealing a thick gold chain around its neck. The whale has a perfectly styled bouffant... ChatGPTthe issue
- December 9, 2024 Scene prompt: salmon spaceship firing lasersa spaceship shaped like a giant salmon firing lasers and surrounded by rainforest animals ChatGPTthe issue
- December 2, 2024 Scene prompt: robot vacuum and holographic AI JesusA cozy living room featuring a nostalgic, worn-out robot vacuum tangled in threads on an area rug, symbolizing aging technology. In the background, a glowing holographic AI Jesus appears in a modern confessional setup, radiating a peaceful aura, with a person sitting thoughtfully in front of it.... ChatGPTthe issue
- November 25, 2024 Scene prompt: jazz cat and brain-chipped ratsa jazz musician cat and brain-chipped rats driving mini-convertible cars in a colorful jazz club setting ChatGPTthe issue
- November 18, 2024 Scene prompt: escaped monkeys and emus Thelma and LouiseA scene of chaos in South Carolina with escaped research monkeys climbing trees and two emus, named Thelma and Louise, running down a rural road, evoking a cinematic chase vibe. The emus have surfboards with LEDs on their back. A shark is driving the truck ChatGPTthe issue
- November 11, 2024 Scene prompt: rocket launch and throat-singing monksA mountain scene with a rocket launching in the background, with Tyrolean monks in traditional robes performing throat singing in the foreground. A chimpanzee dressed as a choral director stands in front of the monks, holding a baton and directing them enthusiastically ChatGPTthe issue
- November 4, 2024 Botticelli-style paintingA Botticelli-style painting of a table with a monkey typing on a typewriter, a very angry-looking crow, a brown frog, and a dolphin with a puffer fish in its mouth sitting at a Vegas-style blackjack table with a robot dealing cards and offering a glass of liquid to sniff the issue
- October 28, 2024 Ancient cave artAncient cave art painting of ghosts playing bingo surrounded by pineapples, a giant inflatable colon, a Hoatzin, and two computers with arms moving each other's keyboard and mouse. One of the ghosts is coughing, with signs of air coming out of the ghost's mouth the issue
- October 21, 2024 Scene prompt: vampire butterfly in Zen gardenA butterfly with vampire fangs is sitting in a lotus position on a stone bench in a Zen rock garden. It holds a Costco membership card, and in front of the bench are numerous magazines with the titles Connections and AARP the issue
- October 14, 2024 Medieval tapestryIn a run-down city, there is a Thunderdome-like cage (with a sign that says Virosphere). Inside the giant cage, an anthropomorphized, angry-looking mushroom and a giant tick are fighting with a large staff. There is a crowd of inflatable viruses watching the battle. Northern lights are visible... the issue
- October 7, 2024 Scene prompt: giant E. coli scientist and bacteria farmersA giant bacterium, like E. coli, uses its flagella to type on a computer while manipulating test tubes. Other bacteria in the background are farming enormous pumpkins and candy bars growing on trees. Different bacteria are mixing a cement-like substance and building a brick house ChatGPTthe issue
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Styles used so far
Alphabetical, with the month each style ran. The standing rule is that a style is used once.
- 16th-century anatomical fugitive sheet with lift-flapsAug 2026
- 18th-century pastoral oil paintingJun 2025
- 1930s WPA National Park posterDec 2025
- 1940s carnival sideshow bannerOct 2026
- 1950s Cold War civil defense pamphletJan 2026
- 1950s pulp sci-fi magazine coverJun 2026
- 1960s industrial ad, Nitsche / Shapur / Push PinNov 2025
- 1962 Silver Age newsstand comic coverNov 2026
- 1970s heavy metal album coverSep 2025
- 1970s Japanese tokusatsu TV stillNov 2025
- 1980s 8-bit video gameAug 2025
- 1980s Bob Ross PBS paintingJan 2026
- 1980s glam metal album coverJun 2025
- 1990s retro ad posterApr 2025
- 19th-century naturalist illustrationJan 2026
- 19th-century statistical infographic plateJun 2026
- A Barnes Foundation ensemble, one painting idiom per sectionAug 2026
- Ancient cave artOct 2024
- Andy Warhol pop art gridMay 2025
- Antonio Martorell surrealismJan 2026
- Art Deco WPA lithograph posterSep 2025
- B&W street photography, Ilford Delta 3200Sep 2025
- Banksy stencil muralSep 2025
- Bob Ross meets MagritteMay 2026
- Bosch and Bruegel maximalist surrealismJul 2025
- Bosch meets Burning Man pamphletJul 2025
- Bosch meets Maria Sibylla Merian triptychDec 2025
- Botticelli-style paintingNov 2024
- British heraldic coat of armsJun 2026
- Byzantine devotional iconJul 2026
- Byzantine icon triptychMay 2025
- Cellarius Baroque celestial atlasJul 2026
- Chagall-style floating-figure surrealismMar 2025
- Charles Demuth precisionism (I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold)Sep 2026
- Da Vinci / Michelangelo Renaissance paintingJan 2025
- Disney-style digital paintingFeb 2025
- Dutch Golden Age banquetMar 2025
- Edo yamato-e emakimono handscrollMay 2026
- Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur plateAug 2026
- Flemish tapestry meets vaporwaveAug 2025
- Fritz Glarner / Irving Petlin surrealismSep 2025
- Gerome / Dinet academic realismNov 2025
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo composite head (teste composte)Sep 2026
- Grant Wood American GothicFeb 2025
- Hieronymus BoschMar 2026
- Hokusai ukiyo-e woodblockDec 2025
- Hudson River School / BierstadtDec 2025
- Joachim Wtewael Northern MannerismNov 2025
- Joseph Wright of Derby scientific plateMar 2026
- Kindergarten crayon drawingMay 2026
- LEGO dioramaOct 2025
- Lichtenstein meets Keith Haring pop artOct 2025
- Limbourg Brothers illuminated manuscriptMar 2026
- Medieval frescoJun 2025
- Medieval tapestryOct 2024
- Mexican lotería tablaSep 2026
- Mid-century modernist screen-print (Lustig / Rand / Pintori)Aug 2026
- Mughal imperial court miniatureJun 2026
- Nazca geoglyph linesAug 2025, Apr 2026
- Norman RockwellJul 2025
- Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post coversJul 2026
- Palekh lacquer miniatureOct 2026
- Photorealistic first-person game, 1920s bone-and-bamboo mahjong setOct 2026
- Pieter Bruegel the ElderMar 2025
- Remedios Varo alchemical surrealismMar 2026
- Richard Scarry picture-book townJun 2026
- Roman floor mosaicJul 2025
- Salvador Dali surrealismJan 2025
- Sicilian puppet theater (Opera dei Pupi) framed by painted cart panelsNov 2026
- Silly Symphony meets Dr. Seuss cartoonAug 2025
- Southwestern Native American cave artJan 2025
- Soviet constructivist propaganda posterFeb 2026
- Surreal digital paintingApr 2025
- Surrealist dreamscapeMay 2025
- The Mexica Sun Stone, painted as it looked when newSep 2026
- Trajan's Column spiral reliefFeb 2026
- Unfinished paint-by-numbers canvasAug 2026
- US Patent Office drawingMay 2026
- Wes Anderson movie posterJun 2025
- Wes Anderson symmetrical dioramaApr 2026
- Zoffany neoclassical allegoryOct 2025
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