Do Your Strip Comic Exhibit

June 4, 2008 6:04 PM

Do Your Strip: A hopeful book and exhibition where 70 artists and illustrators invent a character, provide instructions on how to draw it, then create the first comic adventure. Exhibit-goers would then create additional stories with their favorite characters. All the characters, instructions, and first strips can be seen here [pdf].

My favorites? Toma and Yassine. Karine Bernadou. Mr. Clement. (links go to artists' personal websites)

posted by artifarce (4 comments total)

It's an interesting idea, but since there are no responses yet and no actual exhibit to go to yet, I was a little disappointed. Also, the website is terrible.
posted by ErWenn at 7:11 PM on June 4, 2008

Holy shitting fuckballs that is one annoying site.
posted by autodidact at 9:50 PM on June 4, 2008

Coolness. I love the art in the pdf. It looks like a lot of the artists were like, "hmm, what can I make out of this squiggly line I started out with?" I wish I could do that sort of thing with character design.

The website can go die in a fire.
posted by Mister Cheese at 2:19 AM on June 5, 2008

It is unfortunate the website was so lacking, but I couldn't just ignore the content because of it. The pdf of all the strips is really the best part.

I also had the hope that additional publicity (even if it were "only" Metafilter) would help them find a host for the exhibit. There's cartoon museums in SF and NYC, but it would also be amazing at any art museum or even a children's museum.

Who knows... maybe in a few months I'll be able to update this post with a location and dates. ;)
posted by artifarce at 12:41 PM on June 5, 2008