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From Turing
to LLMs and Beyond

A 10-issue interactive comic series tracing the full arc of computing — from Alan Turing's 1936 thought experiment to modern AI — and imagining the future worth building. For curious people who want to understand how we got here, and help shape what comes next.

The Studio

What we're building now and how we got here — concept art, style experiments, and the production story behind the series.

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The Series

Ten issues, from 1936 to 2026. Each available in two versions.

Issue 01 Can a Machine Think? 1936
v1 v2
Issue 02 Building the First Brains 1940s-50s
v1 v2
Issue 03 Teaching Machines to Understand Us 1950s-60s
v1 v2
Issue 04 Small Tools, Big Ideas 1970s
v1 v2
Issue 05 Connecting Everything 1980s-90s
v1 v2
Issue 06 Machines That Learn 1990s-2010s
v1 v2
Issue 07 Attention is All You Need 2017
v1 v2
Issue 08 The Agent Awakens 2023-24
v1 v2
Issue 09 The Swarm 2025
v1 v2
Issue 10 The Whole Stack 2026
v1 v2

Interactive Labs

Hands-on explorations that let you play with the concepts from each issue.

Turing Machine Sandbox
Binary Playground
Logic Gates Lab
Compiler Explorer
Unix Pipe Playground
Sorting Arena
Packet Journey
Git Branching Visualizer
Cryptography Lab
Moore's Law Time Machine
Neural Network Playground
Tokenizer Deep Dive
Attention Visualizer
Agent Sandbox
Swarm Simulator
Full Stack Elevator

Illustrated Guides

Visual deep-dives into key architectures and concepts.

The Halting Problem Proof
Von Neumann Blueprint
Pioneers Gallery
Hardware Evolution
Computing Family Tree
Internet Physical Map
Neural Network Anatomy
Embedding Galaxy
The Transformer Blueprint
Agent Architecture

Written and illustrated with AI. Built with Claude Code using multi-agent orchestration. v1 was the first pass. v2 is the result of iterative refinement through research, review, and regeneration agents. Currently experimenting with AI-generated character designs and new art styles for the next version.