
it was a cool film!)…lol I was like about 7 when I first saw this one. I guess I can’t blame myself for being soo scared by it as a kid, though (I was really scared by it, seriusly XD used to kind of dread whenever it came on, but…still would re-watch, anyways. Wow, that movie WAS pretty creepy! It’s an amazing film though. The contrast between the book and the first version demonstrates the degree to which the original was innovative: the printed volume smoothes out the original, improvised story, forcing it into a more conventional plot.The Brave Little Toaster was one heck of an epic film, seriusly…That was a pretty dark/creepy film for children, now, wasn’t it?…XD I didn’t really watch it again on YT like I said I would last night, by the way (too tired…most likely), but, checked some online (technecly, edited, but…yeah) trailers just today. La Maison close was first presented to the public at the FIBD, then was put online for a year, and now has been published in book form. The resulting story played with conventions of autobiography, as worked out in alternative comics over the past couple of decades. It was produced by cartoonists who improvised a narrative within a general framework provided by Ruppert and Mulot: a series of drawn settings representing a bordello.

de la Bande Dessinée (FIBD), in Angoulême, France.


The work was created by Ruppert, Mulot and several other artists for the 2009 Festival International. This essay analyses one example of improvisation in comics, Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot's La Maison close. Improvisation and performance are not traditionally associated with the comics form, but experiments with them are increasingly found in the area of alternative, or smallpress, comics.
