Oubapo mini-Agenda,
2/6/02
Odessa Café, East Village
9PM-midnight
present: Jason, Tom,
Matt
Jason: cheddar cheeseburger w/fries, water
Tom: guinness
Matt: Jim Beam
Hannes Schaidraiter: interviewed Tom at Angouleme and does comics in the early Trondheim/Shane Simmons tradition (Cowboyand Indian). Tom givesMatt some minis for the nascent Oubapo Library.
Ellen Lindner planning
to host 24-hour comic at her place in Queens
Jason proposes "funnie" as alt singular form of comic.
Also notes that he found "comix" listed in Amer Heritage dict of 1986
Matt asks for name
suggestions for 4-panel strip, see below.
Matt shows around Motley's package of comics and instructions for jam
comics and experimental comics following various tendencies (Oubapo, surrealist
games, etc). The guys are wowed by the Mot-Pak
Tom proposed first Oubapo publication be a Triple Dare invitational
Matt proposes that Jason Matt and Tom come up with the three dares and invite 10 or so artists.
Matt solicits Narrative corpse ideas for his SVA class: maybe best to give student whole previous tier?
creating new character
was used in spiegelman's book
motley kit
APE plans:
-display for Tom's table (Matt? ideas?)
-4-panel handout (Matt)
-oubapo general flyer (Tom)
-booklet of works to date (Matt)
Web Page to-do's (after
APE)
-put up 4-panels
-expand links (comicswerks, uss catastrophe)
-anticipatory plagiarists lists
-Groensteen list
-One-note samba
-divvy up tasks
fill it in yourself
hello my name is...
fill in the blanks
DIY comix
Silent Running
Converse and Flee
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