This
is an experimental, abstract comic about the idea that there are no new ideas.
It's never the same twice. The comic book panels are in both the shape
of rectangles and circles with black outline, as you can see in the
images on this page. Use the space key
to pause/play.
Gareth Hopkins invited artists to do something with a page of his
abstract graphic novel Petrichor
(which included the text "There are no new ideas") and send it back to him. He
posted the resulting
two dozen or so pages and titled the project "No New Ideas"; I felt it might be interesting to feed them
all to
Aleph Null (online, generative, interactive software I wrote) as an experimental comic.
I had an email conversation with Jim Leftwich
about the idea that there are no new ideas; I threw that text in too. I was
reading Rosalind Krauss's well-known essay about the grid; I included some of that too—plus
another graphic page I made enumerating some good ideas.
Thanks to Andrew Topel, Alfredo Santos, Amy Hopkins, Bill Hopkins, Chloe Starling, Chris Joseph, Cindy Lou, Daniel Bristow Bailey, Gareth A Hopkins, Hazel R Web, Jenny Robins, Jeremy Bushnell, Kele Web, Ladenia Jones, Martha Hopkins, Michæl Orzechowski, Nick Bryan, Piotr Szreniawski, Rosaire Appel, Sarah Daniels, Steve Thompson and Tony Edwards for their graphics.