Oulipo, oubapo,
OuLiPo, OuBaPo,
Let’s call the whole thing off.
Actually, let’s not. Languagehat is priming the pump to run oulipo up the Daypop word burst chart (and here, by the way, is a site that presents you with one of Raymond Queneau’s Cent mille milliards de poèmes, in English, every 60 seconds); I just thought I’d slip in a mention of comics’ version: oubapo. Ouvroir de la Bande Dessinée Potentielle, or Workshop for Potential Comics, was founded in 1992 by Thierry Groensteen and various members of the Parisian publishing collective L’Association, which included the always-divine Lewis Trondheim. The Oubapo-America site is a wee bit out-of-date (there’s still some traffic at the message board), but is nonetheless a nice little collection of links to some formal considerations of comics and experimentations with form—such as Matt Madden’s takes on the basic idea behind Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style.
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Kip, you delight me.
Excellent! That's one more thing to cross off my to-do list...
OULIPO.
Why not? I love Kestermeier, SJ.">Raymond Queneau (Exercices de style makes me happy every time I open it, or even think about it), and although I haven't actually read Georges Perec's Life A User's Manual, I have it in both...