Ephemeral landscapes: of the page, fundaments . . . Exercices de style
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back to the beginning of COMIC FUNDAMENTS Production Self-consciousness Exercices de style Realism Surrealism in words and images Sound Motion onward to STORYTELLING		In 1947, Raymond Queneau published a small tour-de-force, Exercices de style, replaying the same unexceptional scene in different words over and over -- 99 times -- using any literary, poetic, linguistic, philosophical device or conceit at hand. Despite its very French character, it even translates well into English (Queneau 1981). Inspired by Queneau, and in the selfconscious tradition, Matt Madden posted an arbitrary number (twenty plus one, and growing) versions of a similarly ordinary scene on the Internet, and asked a few friendly colleagues to assist. In English <http://www.indymagazine.com/comics/style.shtml>. In French <http://www.pipo.com/du9/du9/expo/expo_madden.htm>. There are echoes of these styles throughout the rest of these pages. 1. Template 2. Monologue 3. Upstairs 4. Subjective 5. Voyeur 6. Soundfx 7. Photo-comic 8. Dailies 9. How-to 10. Exorcise 11. Inventory 12. Map 13. Deja vu 14. Closure 15. Manga 16. Welcome 17. A Life 18. Roygbiv 19. One panel 20. Thirty panels 21-Dynamic Constraint Corman Hankiewicz Jazmin Kerschbaum Josue Klemencic Landgridge Patrick Now that you've exercised . . .
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