Constraints
Constraints
are the meat and bones of Ou-X-Po (the collective name for Oulipo and
its various spinoffs). They are the first step towards making potential
a reality. In comics, constraints can govern everything from the number
or size of panels on a page to the iconic material used to tell a story.
Following are links to two lists of constraints. The first is the groundbreaking
first attempt by Oubapo co-founder Thierry Groensteen to come up with
a systematic classification of the different kinds of constraints that
can be applied to comics. The second list is a much more haphazard and
ongoing list of constraints that the creators of this web page have come
up with.
Both
of these pages will be updated occasionally with illustrations and, in
the case of the second page, with new constraints.
f any of the constraints liseted here intrigue you enough to want to try
them out, go right ahead, that's what these are for: to inspire you to
make comics.
Thierry Groensteen's First Batch of Constraints
New Constraints proposed by
Oubapo-America.com (in progress)
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