One-Page Graphic
Novels
The idea
here is to reduce an entire book to one page. First you figure out the
average number of panels per page and then you select that number of panels
from the book so that they are as equally spaced as possible. For example,
in the case of Black Candy, the standard page layout features 9 panels,
so the book was reduced to one page of 9 panels equally spaced (as near
as possible) throughout the book (i.e. panel 1, panel 50, panel 100...panel
400, out of 401 total panels)
Black Candy, by Matt Madden (Highwater Books)
Cola Madnes, by Gary Panter (Funny Garbage)
Ghost World, by Daniel Clowes (Fantagraphics Books)
Lust for Life by Jeff LeVine (Reduction by Marc Weidenbaum: I call this my "Five Percent Solution" of LeVine's "Lust for Life," because I got the 176-panel comic down to 9 panels, each panel (more or less) equally distant from the ones that directly proceed and follow it. I based this reduction on the mathematical system with which Matt's been working.)
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SOME OUBAPO LINKS:
Links in English:
MAP>OULIPO
Site about connecting the arts and sciences.
Matt Madden's Exercises in Style
OUBAPO - AMERICA MESSAGE BOARD
Links in French:
place selling Oubapo book#1. offers brief description
Links to other experimental comics sites:
Lewis Trondheim's random gag generator
Scott McCloud, the one-man comics idea factory
USS Catastrophe has, among other cool items, an ongoing add-a-panel jam comic
Two English language links mimicing Raymond Queneau's 100,000,000,000,000 Poems:
http://www.wordengineering.net/ticker2.html