In these days of bloated software that requires multi-gigabyte installs, websites that take an age to load even on a 24 mbit connection, and keyrings that have more storage capacity that it was original thought was required to hold the world’s knowledge … it’s nice to see some standing up for elegant, efficient coding.
Scott from Comic Book Outsiders has set up a Twitter bot that will be re-tweeting any tweets that contain the words “Bristol” and “comic” over this weekend.
Looks like I made the cut for the Monkey On My Back Twitter Comic. Check out panel #10 for something typically MWM.
Wasn’t entirely sure how this would work, both practically and in terms of the way the story would break down, but there is certainly something interesting happening.
What I would love to see is this being done on a larger scale now – with every response Tweet getting an illustration and creating a divergent path in the story. That sort of meta-fiction fascinates me, andI think it would be amazing to see the different storylines expand, cross, converge, and even merge towards the end.
I’ve been thinking about trying to build some kind of overall narrative into the Monkeys with Macineguns Live! event based on this. I’m not sure if it will be possible, but certainly we’ll be Twittering throughout the day, so if you can’t make it to the show itself, be sure to follow us on Twitter and see how we get on.
The guys at Monkey On My Back are running an interesting experiment. Can the almost infinite monkeys of Twitter create anything near to the works of Shakespeare, or are we all about to SMS ourselves up in flames?
The gambit is simple – start a story, then have people tweet in the next line. Pick the one you like, retweet it, draw a comic book panel for it, then wait for more tweets to come in. Rinse and repeat until story done.
I’ve tossed my hat into the ring, although with my track record of killing “comic jams” dead with my overuse of the word “betwixt” (long story, for another post), who knows if I will get to be one of the monkeys in question?