The way the artists work this very limiting and demanding medium is impressive, and probably not even easily imitated by general-purpose generative models.
You might want to take a look at https://diffusionillusions.com/ . You don't need a specialized models, little bit of traditional code for enforcing constraints on top of general purpose models can do quite a bit.
I definitely read less then 50% of GEB too, but I think I skipped to the Achilles and the Tortoise dialogs rather than the pictures :)
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis_II
The way the artists work this very limiting and demanding medium is impressive, and probably not even easily imitated by general-purpose generative models.