Polyominos

The collected volume Polyominos presents pages that were exhibited during the 14th “Quinzaine de la Bande Dessinée de Bruxelles”, in May 2007. Those pages were created following a simple formal constraint : each artist was to design first a silent page built of 20 black and white panels (organized in five strips of four square panels of set dimensions), then, reusing the same panels, was to bring out another page that would tell another story. Polyominos therefore stands for “poly-dominos”, each panel then being considered as a “brick” of the whole, bearing the potential of various and different connections with its neighbors : in this way, the formal device (not far from oubapian constraints) aims at bringing out the fact that in a narrative sequence, each panel can be seen as an embryonary story part, with the potential of generating different narrative depending on its position in the text.