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Oubapo Comics

February 2013

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Excerpt from: “Compter Sur Toi” published by L’association. By arrangement with the publisher. Translation © 2013 by Matt Madden. All rights reserved.

Graphic artist and translator Matt Madden introduces the Oubapo, the graphic arm of the Oulipo, with wildly inventive work by François Ayroles, Patrice Killoffer, and Etienne Lécroart.

Oubapo: Comics and Constraints from France

Comics are a medium founded on constraints. Even more than prose, comics are subject to rules of sequence and format that to some degree determine the content of each work. Take the common newspaper…

February 2013 Oubapo Comics Acrostic Killoffer Page 1

Acrostic

Translated from French by Matt Madden

February 2013 Oubapo Comics Palindrome François Ayroles Page 1

Palindrome

By François Ayroles

Translated from French by Matt Madden

February 2013 Oubapo Comics Counting On You Etienne Lécroart Page 4

Counting on You

By Etienne Lécroart

Translated from French by Matt Madden