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This paper presents the background to a book on the visual history of academic lexicography, being a sequence of hundreds of one-page comic strips, created through conversations with LLM chatbots and GenAI image generators, each page representing a major publication in the field. Of course, I knew that this submission would be a gamble: Would a comic version of a conference paper be taken seriously? Well, one extremely positive adjudicator gave it a ‘Strong Accept’, and a more critical one gave it an ‘Accept’. Adjudicator 1 summarised it head-on, writing that it is “an extremely original contribution to the field, as it addresses the impact and outreach of scientific research both within and beyond academia”, while Adjudicator 2 pointed out that it is “untraditional but entertaining, and comic strips could very well be part of lexicography”. In what follows, my original extended abstract is presented first, after which I interact with the feedback left by Adjudicators 1 and 2. No doubt, and again, a very uncommon approach, but times have changed in the era of generative AI.