Oubapo America
August 3, 2002 12:31 AM Subscribe
Oubapo America is a project to identify and explore constraints in Comics. It is the American cousin of the French Oubapo project which shares the same goals. Example: "Draw a comic that is 26 panels long where each panel features in some way the corresponding letter of the alphabet". If this sounds familiar, you may be thinking of Oulipo.
The Oubapo/America site makes me long for a more graphical interface. Thumbnails links to the comics would help a lot.
This one from their alphabet challenge made me laugh:
The Stutterer's Alfalfabet
It's a clash of medieval hallucinations and gossipy caricature.
posted by gametone at 3:58 PM on August 3, 2002
This one from their alphabet challenge made me laugh:
The Stutterer's Alfalfabet
It's a clash of medieval hallucinations and gossipy caricature.
posted by gametone at 3:58 PM on August 3, 2002
Nice! The Silent Running constraint is a bit reminiscent of David Lynch's Angriest Dog in the World cartoons (bit more background here).
posted by chrispy at 4:28 PM on August 3, 2002
posted by chrispy at 4:28 PM on August 3, 2002
ninthart: you got it -- I just can't think of illustrated alphabets without thinking about Gorey.
For those poor souls that have missed out, there's a decent online version of The Gashlycrumb Tinies here
posted by LuxFX at 7:10 AM on August 4, 2002
For those poor souls that have missed out, there's a decent online version of The Gashlycrumb Tinies here
posted by LuxFX at 7:10 AM on August 4, 2002
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posted by ninthart at 5:09 AM on August 3, 2002