Fantomas Lives!
Fantômas is the Lord of Terror, the Genius of Evil, the arch-criminal anti-hero of a series of 32 pre-WWI French thrillers written by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain. He carries out the most appalling crimes: substituting sulfuric acid in the perfume dispensers at a Parisian department store, releasing plague-infested rats on an ocean liner, or forcing a victim to witness his own execution by placing him face-up in a guillotine.
In 1912, Apollinaire founded the
Societe des Amis de Fantomas which included prominent artists and writers.
Magritte considered Fantomas to be a major influence in many of his paintings. Fantomas was not only a comic book but also
spawned films, tv and radio shows and plays. (There is, of course, a modern
band as well)(I read the
Mexican comic book as a child)
posted by vacapinta
on Sep 14, 2002 -
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Oubapo America is a project to identify and explore constraints in Comics. It is the American cousin of the French
Oubapo project which shares the same goals.
Example: "Draw a comic that is 26 panels long where each panel features in some way the corresponding letter of the alphabet". If this sounds familiar, you may be thinking of
Oulipo.
posted by vacapinta
on Aug 3, 2002 -
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