DC Pulls Francesco Mattina Variant Covers Following A.I. Art Allegations

Last week, star comic book artist, Adi Granov, alleged that Fransesco Mattina, an artist who regularly did variant covers for DC titles (and who had three solicited covers set to be released in September 2024), used generative artificial intelligence (A.I.) at least in part on his covers. Well, DC has now pulled all of Mattina’s future covers, including the previously solicited covers.
The change in solicitations was first noticed by Rich Johnston, and while most of the covers are currently listed now as “To Be Announced,” for one of the books, DC moved a cover meant for a future issue up a few months to take the place of a soon-to-be-released Mattina cover.
Here is a detail of Superman’s S symbol, where it appears as though the bottom was replicated one time too many…

Last week, star comic book artist, Adi Granov, alleged that Fransesco Mattina, an artist who regularly did variant covers for DC titles (and who had three solicited covers set to be released in September 2024), used generative artificial intelligence (A.I.) at least in part on his covers. Well, DC has now pulled all of Mattina’s future covers, including the previously solicited covers.

The change in solicitations was first noticed by Rich Johnston, and while most of the covers are currently listed now as “To Be Announced,” for one of the books, DC moved a cover meant for a future issue up a few months to take the place of a soon-to-be-released Mattina cover.

Here is a detail of Superman’s S symbol, where it appears as though the bottom was replicated one time too many…

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