A Krea 2 style LoRA trained on panels from Ici Meme, drawn by Jacques Tardi and written by Jean-Claude Forest.
About the book
Ici Meme was first serialised in the French monthly (A Suivre) and later collected as a book; Fantagraphics published it in English as You Are There (2009). Its hero, Arthur Meme, is the last heir of a family whose estate was taken by the neighbours. All he has left are the walls between their gardens, so he lives on top of them and charges a toll at every gate. Tardi (born 1946 in Valence) is also the artist of Adele Blanc-Sec, It Was the War of the Trenches and the Nestor Burma adaptations. Please look for his books.
What this LoRA does
IciMmStl gives Tardi's crisp black and white ink: heavy solid blacks, white lines cut into black shapes, clean even contours and simple faces with dot eyes. Provincial France between the wars comes naturally: bowler hats and top hats, stone walls and iron gates, shuttered villas, striped wallpaper, rain streaks and grey seafronts.
Usage
Trigger word: IciMmStl
The training panels are small and dense, so for clean full-page images put this in Krea 2's top/style input:
IciMmStl, a single large black and white ink illustration, full-page splash with a clear open composition and room to breathe, no panel borders, no lettering
Describe the scene in the bottom prompt. Tested with Krea 2 Turbo at LoRA strength 1.0.
Included version
- Step 800 (800 steps, 382 panels, trained on Krea 2 Raw). It kept Tardi's simple faces and flat blacks better than the 1000-step final.