Reduce exisiting works, using constraints, to create new comics.
solutions:
Tom
Hart: "Amy's Story"
Utilizing only the silent panels that contain the Amy character from
James Kochalka's KISSERS (
Highwater Books)
And version 2 with no sound effects
Matt
Madden: Black Candy
using
only panels with no humans (including voices)
Jason
Little: Peanuts
Reducing
the oeuvre to four panels
Sean
Duncan: Banks/Eubanks
Alphabetical reduction: the first panel to contain a
letter A (either spoken or in the "scenery" or as a sound effect),
becomes the first panel of the reduced comic. The first panel after that
which has a B becomes the second panel, and so on.
Matt
Madden: One Page Graphic Novels
Reducing
a comic book to one page using a quasi-mathematical formula.
Marc
Weidenbaum: Lust for Life
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.
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
