La Maison close was first presented to the public at the FIBD, then was put online for a year, and now has been published in book form. The resulting story played with conventions of autobiography, as worked out in alternative comics over the past couple of decades. It was produced by cartoonists who improvised a narrative within a general framework provided by Ruppert and Mulot: a series of drawn settings representing a bordello. de la Bande Dessinée (FIBD), in Angoulême, France. The work was created by Ruppert, Mulot and several other artists for the 2009 Festival International. This essay analyses one example of improvisation in comics, Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot's La Maison close. Improvisation and performance are not traditionally associated with the comics form, but experiments with them are increasingly found in the area of alternative, or smallpress, comics.
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