experimental comics

spacial comics - Aleksander Curic

2012-01-30T10:52:00.003-06:00

Aleksander has allowed me to show an example of his art here, please take a look:

also please take a look at the blog:
http://spatialcomic.blogspot.com

comics by Edward Kulemin (Russia)

2012-01-27T01:35:00.000-06:00

pszrenadding 01 and 02

2012-01-26T02:11:00.003-06:00

Red Trousers

2012-01-23T13:29:00.005-06:00

Abstract comic using famous art as the foundation. For more info see my original post here.

Drawingsilence.com

Adding - invitation to a next anthology

2012-01-22T16:21:00.003-06:00

I would like to invite you all to a next minianthology (well, it doesn't have to turn out mini :) ). this would be a gathering of experimental comics that have something to do with adding.

the idea of adding/collage/phases of the process/a+d+d+i+n+g/two lines --=+/what can we add to comics/what do you add to create a comics/what would you like to add?/spices/addiction (well, it's just a stream of keywords)/we/synergy/interactions/...

each author can send as many pages as he or she wishes.

A4 format, vertical.
deadline: till the end of May, this year.

please send the comics to pszren@wp.pl as attachments.

the file will be available in .pdf

edit:

a printed copy of the anthology will be sent to National Library in Warsaw, Poland. you may certainly also send copies to some libraries.

please sign each piece - there will be no "Contents" page.

The Yellow Danger

2012-01-22T11:51:00.001-06:00

The Earth-Sky-Sea 4

2012-01-22T11:49:00.002-06:00

Guest Pages are here!

2012-01-16T03:26:00.002-06:00

hello everyone,

the Guest Pages minianthology has been published!

the texts are in Polish. ten authors from 3 countries.

http://iiii.comicgenesis.com/goscinnestrony.pdf

liģht - comics

2012-01-07T08:13:00.000-06:00

The Fool Moons - serie

2012-01-04T10:43:00.002-06:00

Jack Und

2012-01-04T10:42:00.001-06:00

okUpi

2012-01-01T13:07:00.004-06:00

OneS

2011-12-30T02:11:00.000-06:00

The Three Kings

2011-12-30T02:10:00.000-06:00

Aslan Is On The Move

2011-12-15T07:26:00.000-06:00

A Communicator_or

2011-12-15T07:24:00.000-06:00

Some Asemic Comics

2011-12-15T07:21:00.001-06:00

fa m agu s ta

2011-11-09T13:43:00.001-06:00

http://famagusta.comicgenesis.com/d/20111101.html

famagusta

2011-10-22T15:09:00.001-05:00

another portion: http://famagusta.comicgenesis.com/d/20111001.html

In The Dark

2011-10-05T00:00:00.001-05:00

Click here to see larger.

In The Dark - Unknown 18 another recent comic from this series of cut up post modern comics. See more here.

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Three Panel Comic Strip Experiment

2011-09-29T00:00:00.000-05:00

Comic Strip Experiment click for larger.

I was inspired by the random Garfield Generator and the Garfield minus Garfield strips to experiment with the three panel comic strip format. I was interested in the empty banality of these strips and the fact that these make Garfield more interesting as a comic strip. These are some of the experiments the resulted.

Drawingsilence.com

dan - part 4 of tandian

2011-09-17T04:49:00.004-05:00

hello,

so dan is ready! please take a look:
http://iiii.comicgenesis.com/dan.pdf

Gościnne Strony - Guest Pages

2011-09-01T02:37:00.005-05:00

hello,

I would like to invite everyone to the project "Guest Pages".

Please send one page of comics and a text to pszren@wp.pl before the end of December 2011.

the comics should be inspired by/somehow similar to/developing the ideas of the "tandian" series. so it can be minimalistic with dots and frames only, but it can be totally different. please surprise the reader, break the rules. the comics should not be published before.

the text (comment, story, your views, explanation, whatever you want) should be signed (I mean please let me know if you want your name or nickname under it). the texts will be translated into Polish and published in Polish only (but I can put the English version on the net if you want).

the gathered pieces will be published in an anthology as a pdf file. a printed version will be sent to the National Library in Warsaw, Poland. and anyone interested will be able to print a copy as well.

It would be great to gather many interesting pieces of experimental comics and interesting comments from various authors. please take part in the project and also please invite anyone who could be interested.

all the best

Pszren

http://iiii.comicgenesis.com/tandian.pdf
http://iiii.comicgenesis.com/dantian.pdf
http://iiii.comicgenesis.com/tundiun.pdf
http://iiii.comicgenesis.com/dan.pdf

(as I'm somehow not able to comment on blogspot - I really don't know why, cookies perhaps? - I will give answers to any questions in this post, ok? or by email).

just a littlie animated piece from tundiun - for rappel

2011-08-25T03:32:00.003-05:00

rappel, thank you for your kind words!

this is for you:
http://koloryzmgeometryczny.orangespace.pl/tundiunanimated.gif
(well, I guess it's too slow, and perhaps there should be more frames... but I just want to show you that I'm trying :) ).

and thank you very much for looking at the work. I'm planning to ask people to send me guest pages, but first I wanted to create the fourth piece (dan).

anyway, I made a page for the project:
http://tandian.strefa.pl

(it's in Polish, so here is the google translation):
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=pl&sl=pl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftandian.strefa.pl%2F

I'll post an official invitation in September.

tundiun

2011-08-23T15:22:00.004-05:00

frames and dots once again, this is the third (out of planned four) volume of the series.

http://iiii.comicgenesis.com/tundiun.pdf

Roman Opałka's 1 - ∞

2011-08-18T16:12:00.003-05:00

please take a look
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Opa%C5%82ka

in my opinion, both Opałka's paintings and portrays have a lot in common with comics.

Within

2011-08-01T00:12:00.004-05:00

page 10 above click for larger.

Over July I have been working on a minimal experimental comic called within. Page 1 here.

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Metromash

2011-07-27T00:43:00.002-05:00

Shadows of Hats

2011-07-26T23:53:00.002-05:00

tandian

2011-06-28T07:40:00.003-05:00

http://iiii.comicgenesis.com/tandian.pdf

450 pages, minimalistic :). the idea is opposite than in dantian (remember that one?), the frames move, but the nine dots stay still. I wanted to make the animated gif, but well... (the piece looks nice as a slideshow, anyway :) ).

all the best,

Pszren

tandian - page 377

2011-06-24T06:16:00.002-05:00

The Beginning

2011-06-18T07:45:00.000-05:00

The first comic I did in this series. Gutter/borders painted onto found images.
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"meanwhile..."

2011-06-17T16:43:00.000-05:00

comic gardens

2011-06-09T15:24:00.018-05:00

comic gardens

2011-06-09T15:12:00.006-05:00

click on the picture to see the animation.

Draw, please don't be angry! just in case the animation doesn't work, I will put the piece frame by frame in the next post.

Tree-Blogging project mentioned in ARTNews this month

2011-06-09T14:59:00.001-05:00

Back in January, Piotr posted work on the "experimental comics" blog as part of a social media performance/art event ("Tree-Blogging") that I was coordinating with @Platea. That project is briefly discussed in an article on social media art in ARTNews this month. It's toward the end of the article.

--Bungy (a.k.a. Jonathan Gray)

Comics on a lightbox

2011-05-30T00:00:00.000-05:00

A photo of the comic on a lightbox. See larger version of Abstract 25 here. See the original comic here. Another of my permanent marker comics.

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Hate

2011-05-23T23:16:00.006-05:00

hate hate HATE HATE HATE HATE hate hate hate hate hate HATE HATE HATE HATE hate HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE hate hate
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Mr Pixel Rides Again

2011-05-17T00:36:00.000-05:00

comic gardens 2

2011-05-14T13:59:00.002-05:00

please click on the picture to see the animation (8 pictures).

Sky Four

2011-05-04T00:00:00.003-05:00

Click for larger. Ball point pen on a found magazine page. Compare with Sky Three which used the same back ground image. ee more Series 2.
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A Ball in the Fountain

2011-04-26T15:09:00.001-05:00

A Ball in the Fountain

Further Adventures of the Snide

2011-04-13T02:10:00.003-05:00

election time

2011-04-12T22:02:00.004-05:00

Veronique 2

2011-04-11T11:24:00.003-05:00

today the second album of "Veronique" comics was published. Veronique is the name of the main character (or many of the main characters - so in each episode there is a different Veronique). the girl inspires artists (and when they cannot reach her, their art doesn't become great.

the album was created by Otusiunio (who also subscribes this blog :) ), and the stories were written by five authors (the idea was an experiment - as the character is not fully developed, each author could write about almost anything and place the action anywhere). I find Otusiunio's comics quite experimental/artistic - so perhaps it was ok to write about the comics on this blog :).

you can find some examples here:
http://otusiunio.blogspot.com

sanchin

2011-04-08T04:18:00.011-05:00

animated pieces from dantian

2011-03-28T13:57:00.003-05:00

just an idea (click on the picture) :)

windofrms - a colloboration Satu Kaikkonen & Andrew R. Clark

2011-03-27T09:29:00.000-05:00

MURKS RAPPEL

2011-03-01T14:32:00.000-06:00

famagusta strikes again

2011-03-01T06:49:00.002-06:00

remember waiting for the files to open? now it should be faster, as from now on the pictures will not be png files, but jpg's :)

http://famagusta.comicgenesis.com/d/20110301.html

I hope you are not bored with the project.

Dantian

2011-02-23T11:59:00.001-06:00

if you have a moment, please take a look at my new project. it's a minimalistic comics, 450 pages long.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49386933/Dantian

Found

2011-02-22T01:58:00.001-06:00

hu'um'man;: /(spac'e'man)/

2011-02-15T10:11:00.002-06:00

2011-02-10T21:16:00.002-06:00

My collaborator babel has remixed a comic using flash:

choreograph

http://www.runran.net/remix_runran/?p=1494

>:r

The Frame Fishing A Colloboration With Andrew R. Clark

2011-02-06T12:07:00.001-06:00

The Carnival

2011-02-06T10:40:00.002-06:00

lonely structure

2011-02-04T07:42:00.010-06:00

27 Jan/ NYC

2011-01-28T16:36:00.000-06:00

The BirdDragons

2011-01-18T10:57:00.003-06:00

It's a bust

2011-01-12T23:29:00.002-06:00

Binary Sex

2011-01-10T14:39:00.002-06:00

four times four sounds of a tree

2011-01-10T04:38:00.004-06:00

inspiration:
http://plateastweets.blogspot.com/2011/01/project-viii-tree-blogging-trunk.html

famagusta again

2011-01-10T03:52:00.001-06:00

http://famagusta.comicgenesis.com/d/20110101.html

An Invitation to "Treeblog"

2011-01-08T16:39:00.000-06:00

Hi folks. I wanted to invite my experimental comics friends to an on-line happening next week. This link will take you to a write up of the protocol for the event. I think the event certainly lends itself to experimental comics work, with the added benefit that it might bring folks to this blog who might not otherwise check us out.

And of course, if you want to play this out on your own blog or some other site, feel free to do that as well.

Side Note: I've been a part of @Platea for about a year and a half now. We've done some interesting projects together investigating art on/through/with social media. I am the primary architect of this latest project and purposefully designed it so that it might appeal to the several different on-line arts communities in which I participate. Including, most definitely, experimental comics.

Becoming

2011-01-08T12:02:00.001-06:00

Clipping-s

2011-01-08T11:33:00.000-06:00

pieces of snow

2011-01-05T10:35:00.002-06:00

well these don't looke like snowflakes (or perhaps like reshaped ones)... but at least it's a concrete comics :)

Caught

2011-01-03T23:54:00.001-06:00

Details Details

2011-01-03T23:00:00.004-06:00

Exit

2011-01-03T00:17:00.001-06:00

Not The Bloody Box

2010-12-29T22:50:00.002-06:00

Dataman Rides Again

2010-12-29T21:19:00.002-06:00

Intimacy - Unknown 8

2010-12-29T16:06:00.006-06:00

Intimacy - Unknown 8 is one of my recent comics from this series experimenting with found images. Postmodern cut up comics.
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Snide Agreement

2010-12-29T13:59:00.002-06:00

The Escape of Butterflyes

2010-12-29T09:17:00.001-06:00

The whole serie in here. (Pieniä huoneita silmälle)

A Diamond

2010-12-29T09:13:00.001-06:00

First Adventure After Leaving Home

2010-12-27T21:18:00.004-06:00

future projects

2010-12-13T02:10:00.003-06:00

we can see, that the aleatoric comics anthology was a failure. perhaps it was the lack of time, the lack of clarity on what aleatoric comics are, the fact that I didn't plan to send paper copies to the Authors, or the penis - anyway, this project didn't work out well enough. no anthology here.

could we talk about the future projects that you would like to do on this blog? certainly every contributor can post what she or he wants, but from time to time perhaps it's nice to make something together.

ideas:
- handmade comics
- more analogies with experimental music (like in concrete and aleatoric music)
- neoformalism

anyway, we should prepare better for such projects, I mean the Authors should have perhaps half a year for exploring an idea.

please write your own ideas, and what you think about future projects, if you wish.

all the best,

Piotr

some aleatoric comics

2010-12-12T04:07:00.016-06:00

used above:
http://stripcreator.com (for graphics)
http://barnyard.syr.edu/monkey.html (for texts)

under - four aleatoric concrete comics:

Grafik Dynamo (link)

2010-12-05T08:59:00.003-06:00

For those who have not seen this netart by Kate Armstrong & Michael Tippett:

http://turbulence.org/Works/dynamo/index.html

"Grafik Dynamo (2005) is a net art work by Kate Armstrong & Michael Tippett that loads live images from the internet into a live action comic strip. From the time of its launch in 2005 to the end of 2008, the work used a live feed from social networking site LiveJournal. The work is currently using a feed from Flickr. The images are accompanied by narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought bubbles and randomly displayed."

Shrouds, asemic novel by Gary Shipley

2010-12-04T18:10:00.004-06:00

these are 2 pages from Gary's asemic novel Shrouds.

if you want to see a PDF copy of his novel (more than 50 Mb), please email Gary: gj-shipley (AT) ntlworld.com

famagusta again

2010-12-04T02:03:00.003-06:00

just another link to "famagusta" photocomics:
http://famagusta.comicgenesis.com

Two Aleatoric Comics (and their chance protocol)

2010-11-28T05:55:00.000-06:00

In some ways, my protocol here blends chance with flarf. I built these comics with smart phone (iPhone) apps. My chance protocol was simple:

I grabbed the nearest book next to me. I opened it at random and dropped my finger onto the page. I used the resulting word for a Google search.
I selected the first four images that came up in an image search of that word.
I selected a phrase from the first four site summaries that came up in a web search of the word.
I selected a four panel layout in a strip generator and inserted the images and words in the order they came up in the search.
My eye really only chose (a) the layout, (b) the abreviated phrase from the site summaries, and (c) the placement of the text in the image.

And this is the result:


"Anything"

"Examination"

In the next variation on this protocol I want to get deeper into the Google searches rather than going with the first four. So. I think it is time to pull out the dice.

(Susanna's still alive)

2010-11-28T04:51:00.002-06:00

(This does not fit in, I'm sorry, I just wanted to tell you, that I'm still here ..) Susannah's still alive!

aleatoric comics - project for 2 weeks

2010-11-27T01:51:00.002-06:00

hello, I would like to invite you to a little project aiming at exploring and developing the idea of aleatoric comics. aleatoric, random, not controlled - well, the idea is that the creator doesn't fully control how the comics will look like, how the reader will read it or what comics will appear. perhaps many comics are aleatoric in part, but here I would like to ask you to create comics that can be the "mainstream" or examples of aleatoric comics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoricism

If you wish, you can also write comments on how you made your works or how they should be read. you can also write your own thoughts on aleatoric comics or your definition of such comics.

if it's ok, I would like you to post your works for the project before the 12th of December 2010 here on the blog. I will put them together into a small brochure, for archive purposes - I will send a copy to the National Library in Warsaw, Poland (I will not send copies to the Authors, but everyone will be able to print a copy from a pdf file that will be posted on scribd). I hope it's ok.

If you want me to use files of better quality for the brochure, please send them to pszren[at]wp[dot]pl

all the best to you all, it would really be great to see your works here.

new contributor - RWin (DRACHIR)

2010-11-20T10:13:00.002-06:00

welcome, Drachir! it's great to see you on board.

book, knife and ball

2010-11-20T10:09:00.001-06:00

a series of 8 pages created on stripgenerator.
this is the last page:
http://stripgenerator.com/strip/445007/book-knife-and-ball-8

just a little piece

2010-11-16T09:07:00.001-06:00

Zeszyty Komiksowe

2010-11-02T13:21:00.002-05:00

number 10 of "Zeszyty Komiksowe" has just arrived to me! although the first public appearance of this issue took place on a festival of comics and games in Łódź (sounds more or less like "Wooj", and means "boat" :) ). the issue is about the borders of the art of comics.

more info here:
http://www.zeszytykomiksowe.org/zk10eng

please notice, that some of the contributors to our blog are present there!

concrete comics anthology

2010-10-31T03:42:00.002-05:00

Concrete Comics Anthology

so it's ready, great thanks to all contributors (Rosaire Appel, Sibylle Blaumann, Jonny Gray, Satu Kaikkonen, Mateusz Suchecki, Jan Szreniawski, and me - Piotr Szreniawski :) ). I hope the anthology looks fine, and that we will do more projects together!

Planet Zero3##4&

2010-10-28T07:13:00.002-05:00

The Devil came from Kansas ..

2010-10-16T00:44:00.003-05:00

The Devil came from Kansas!

Origami Flowers

2010-10-07T20:28:00.004-05:00

This is part of a yet-to-be-finished adaptation of a cut-up poem by my brother, Michael.

My 24 Hour Comic: "It Bleeds..."

2010-10-03T09:25:00.000-05:00

Okay, I did one of the "24 Pages in 24 Hours" comics. I had to struggle all morning with Scribd to upload the work, but I made this comic trhoughout most of yesterday (10/2/2010). About half way through the day I really wanted to quit, but something also clicked and I found my groove. In the end it was a really great experience.

Enjoy.

It Bleeds, It Won't Be Contained

In case the embed doesn't work, here is a link to the comic.

wood pieces

2010-09-30T03:15:00.004-05:00

http://www.scribd.com/doc/38456700

I thought about making pictures of these for the 24-hour project, but as I will be busy than, I've made them and publish the comics earlier.

Beach Treasures

2010-09-29T13:09:00.000-05:00

This is a series of monoprints completed Summer of 2009.

The theme of this series is boats that don't float.

Each print was painted on plexiglass then printed through

the etching press. The size is 15" x 22" on Somerset paper.

modified diagram

2010-09-28T05:31:00.002-05:00

some fun I had with a computer science textbook diagram.

Blaumann's Inspiration Board

2010-09-27T23:08:00.002-05:00

Sort of a comic ..

September Street

2010-09-25T03:12:00.002-05:00

4 Colours 6

2010-09-23T00:45:00.000-05:00

Another experiment in this series.
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