Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for August 06, 2010

I love how they’re all contributing.

The 3 muskateers.

Petey is still awesomely practical. Loris is scary-fast. Andre is most nearly normal, IMO.

Oh, the juxtapositions!

They’re like a DMS IV salad!

I wonder how many pages of awkward pauses there are.

You can’t…um…uh…have too many…um…awk… ward pauses….Um…hmmm…Right?

I remember playing Exquisite Corpse with friends.

O.K……somebody please tell me….what is the game Exquisite Corpse?

It’s all good. Dan can fix it up in the editing room, he’ll patch together a coherent storyline (maybe add a few circles and rhomboids of his own, here and there). Then the campers can have their first taste of one of the essences of the artist’s life: Having your best material red-pencilled out by someone else.

Next lesson: Petty Feuding with your Peers.

Final Exam: Publish the finished work on the internet for all the world to see, and watch anonymous strangers make snarky comments about it (which all the world will also see)…

Frank: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse

(It’s… teh internet!!)

The game sounds a bit like mad-libs, only with less structure and more randomness in the end result.

Also… The Narrative Corpse was a Graphic novel edited and published in 1995 by Art Spiegelman. A chain-story by 69 cartoonists, the participants ranged from underground artists of the Sixties and Seventies to contemporary cartoonists. Each artist would receive three panels from another cartoonist, create his own three panels (using the continuing stick figure, “Sticky”, in some way), and send his artwork on to the next artist.

I bought a 12-issue series called “The DC Challenge” back in the day - each of a dozen comic writers in turn had to figure a way out of the cliffhanger he or she was given from the previous issue - and leave a cliffhanger at the end of their issue for the next writer.

Dragon, I remember “DC Challenge” I think I still have the books somewhere in my collection. It was a kick.

DirtyDragon, there was a similar thing (to “Narrative Corpse”) done many years ago by animators. Quite fun.