 Steve from Flat Earth was at the Jam last night, we talked about the Jenny Everywhere open source character project that he’s helped to bring into the world.
I clumsily tried to explain how the concept struck me when I first encountered it: A perfect structural fit for group projects/efforts such as Comix Jams! Also dovetailing nicely with the CC (creative commons) system. An interesting, creatively freeing way to produce comics that could fit a similar niche as the serialized MARVEL & DC comics of today do, without all the coprat and legal crap and suffocating restrictions on the authors and content.
As a result of the Jams here in Montreal a few creators have already teemed up to work on stories, Peter Ferguson and Carlos Santos have been collaborating regularly for over a year now on long jammed narratives with amazing results. Starting at a jam in 1994 Jack Ruttan and Richard Gagnon have been working together on this strip.
There are numerous other incidents of this sort of thing and more are sure to come, the jams being natural creative ‘get to know your neighbours’ gatherings. As one way to collaborate on an idea the idea of a open source character has a lot of potential in this environment.
This conversation came about because he told me he’s thinking about doing a web based jam himself with the character on the Jenny web site as a way to have regular content on site.
Also Steve tells me he’s going into grassroots promotional mode, he’ll be in Toronto next month pimping the shifter. He posted a list of his planed activities here at Barbelith. Keep your eye out for him if the above interests you.
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