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The Jerk – (2001)

Published by NEAL VON FLUE on November 23, 2012 | Leave a response

This comic was first published sometime at the end of 2001.

It gained some popularity at the time it was published and was the most ambitious hypercomic I had attempted. It’s an Infinite Canvas style scrolling narration with embedded interactive flash files that add depth to the narrative.

The horizontal section of the comic features a virtual museum with a retrospective of the tragic (and fictional) webcomics artist Frank Delbruck, complete with museum writeup and attached artwork.

Here’s a metapanel view of the whole piece:

It was pretty favorably reviewed by people who were interested in hypercomics and online storytelling. The Webcomics Book Club, a volunteer-sourced review site took it on with some interesting reviews, including one guy who found it so confusing and useless that he decided to review a sandwich instead.

As an aside, Frank Delbruck has become a small mascot for webcomics experimentation and the occasional frustration that comes along with ambitious and formally-driven work.

This comic has been down for quite a while so I’m happy, 10 years later, to have it posted again.

You can enjoy the comic here.

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Posted in Uncategorized Tagged 2002, Dreams, Flash, Frank Delbruck, Horizontal, Infinite Canvas, Reviews, Vertical

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Vertical Flash Infinite Canvas Storytelling Backwards Politics Horizontal 2004 Dreams Directions 2003 Synesthesia Drive-In Webstrips 2001 2000 2005 2015 Storylooping Metapanel Underhunt Reviews 2002 Halcyon Years Frank Delbruck

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