Veteran cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar look back on their predictions for 2023. They nailed a few and failed a few!

PREDICTION SCORECARD

• Patreon will slowly entice people away from the Founder’s level — WRONG
• TikTok will be banned in the US — WRONG
• CSP will unveil amazing features / Webtoons publishing — RIGHT
• Webtoons publishing — RIGHT
• Twitter fade — RIGHT
• DC Comics implosion — RIGHT
• No one will be using Mastodon — RIGHT
• GPT 3.5 will be used for brainstorming and co-writing scripts using AI writing — RIGHT?
• We’ll see the first AI writing-art webcomic… and it will be good –WRONG
• Copyright law will catch up to AI art — WRONG
• Blockchain is coming back — WRONG
• Original art will become more valuable.

What we DIDN’T predict!

• Patreon’s switch to social media
• Comic-Con loses its Hall H guests — and it was a big win for comics artists
• No replacement for Twitter… not BlueSky, not Threads (and definitely not Mastodon!)