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==Introduction==

'''Conceptual Comics [ CoCo ]''' presents works that diverge from established conventions of comics as a medium. This library is a resonating chamber for conceptual works and unconventional practices little known outside their communities and also a springboard for establishing the conditions for affective lineages among similarly minded practitioners. The variety of the collected CoCo material expresses the editors' preference for non-uniform consistency, making a room for a perpetual becoming of the medium. Nevertheless, CoCo works share many issues and urgencies, alternating between material self-reflexivity and critical exhaustion. They operate on the margins of distribution and reception and their unrootedness in the medium's spectrum is more than an abstraction: artists uncomfortable with entrenched roles invite readers, in the absence of critical discourse, to engage with the works in non-specified, at times forensic ways of examination. I argue that this condition, more than a minor drawback of a normative industry, induces new behaviours and forms of social relationships. Every CoCo work featured in this collection explores the very substrate of its medium not as a culturally neutral site, but as a way to build alternative histories, replete with its own material properties and signifying potentials. 

This collection proposes to examine how social and economic forces and their established commercial and communication routines affect the medium’s meaning and signification. The rainforest of pulp production, the printer’s studio, the readers’ column and the landfill do not simply represent geographies of comics industry but are technologies of inscription in their own right. They are integral elements of a material language that actively shapes comics and challenges the reader to negotiate meaning through different distributions of transparency in its products. This collection proposes to equally embrace real, unclaimed, anticipated and fictional practices in their perpetual materialisation, and reflect on their specific sites of production and on their potential to register meaning and organise discourse based on inscriptions of this material language.

''Ilan Manouach''

''First published on 28 April 2019 with 20 featured works. An expanded version featuring 77 works published on 10 October 2020.''

==Rude==
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==Snake Agent==
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==Wasim 1995==
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==Tintin Akei Kongo==
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==Chronographie==
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==Muji Life & Yangire/Yandere==
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==Terms and Conditions==
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==978==
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==La historieta en el (Faulduo) mundo moderno==
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==Polyepoxy==
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==360º==
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==Photon==
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==Compte-rendu des conditions météorologiques==
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==Negros Rojos==
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==How to be Everywhere==
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==Rakennusohje==
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==Scaffold==
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==RIP==
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==Noirs==
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==Comics Meetings Artist's Books==
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==A Selection of Queer Rage Comics==
<div style="overflow: auto; width: 100%">{{:A Selection of Queer Rage Comics}}</div>

==Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention==
<div style="overflow: auto; width: 100%">{{:Undocumented The Architecture of Migrant Detention}}</div>

==Miscomocs Comics==
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==Grande Vitesse==
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==384==
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==Gone with the Wings==
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==Lil' Buddies Magazine==
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==Cómics de la Revolución==
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==Selected Work for Publications 2005-2010==
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==We All Die Alone==
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==Klassiker des Horrorfilms==
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==Tomate==
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==M-Maybe (Human Torch-Towering Inferno)==
<div style="overflow: auto; width: 100%">{{:M-Maybe (Human Torch-Towering Inferno)}}</div>

==Suggestions d'harmonies==
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==Lost: Works by Ed Ruscha (After Martin Lang)==
<div style="overflow: auto; width: 100%">{{:Lost Works by Ed Ruscha (After Martin Lang)}}</div>

==Euroboys Crysis==
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==ACT ESOL Language, Resistance, Theatre==
<div style="overflow: auto; width: 100%">{{:ACT ESOL Language, Resistance, Theatre}}</div>

==Mnémopolis (d’après Maurice Roche)==
<div style="overflow: auto; width: 100%">{{:Mnémopolis d'après Maurice Roche}}</div>

==Perturbations==
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==Manifeste==
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==Mi Propio Macanudismo==
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==Intersections==
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==A Final Companion to Books from the Simpsons==
<div style="overflow: auto; width: 100%">{{:A Final Companion to Books from the Simpsons}}</div>

==Black Panther Coloring Book==
<div style="overflow: auto; width: 100%">{{:Black Panther Coloring Book}}</div>

==House==
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==Cordel Urbano==
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==Il Fumetto dei Giardini==
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==Lazing West No 1==
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==Les Romans Graphiques==
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==Obscurcité==
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==Panorama du Feu==
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==Remake==
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==Retour vers le centre==
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==Trous gris==
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==The Street==
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==Communes du livre==
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==1000X==
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==Filer==
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==Astro Boy 06==
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==La Méthode Bernadette==
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==Illiterature==
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==TNT en Amérique==
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==Suit(es)==
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==La ballade de la mer salée==
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==Astro Boy 6==
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==Au Travail==
<div style="overflow: auto; width: 100%">{{:Au Travail}}</div>

==Donald Duck Has a Universal Desire==
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==Fahrenheit 451's Comic==
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==Le Royaume==
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==Codex==
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==The Oasis==
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==Compendium of Francobelgian Comics==
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==The Cubicle Island==
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==Líneas Cinéticas==
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==Didascalias==
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==Fondos==
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==Untitled==
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==Peanuts minus Schulz==
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==Credits==
: Compiled and edited by [[Ilan Manouach]]

[[Ilan Manouach]] is a researcher and a multidisciplinary artist with a specific interest in conceptual and post-digital art. He currently holds a PhD position at the Aalto University in Helsinki (adv. Craig Dworkin) where he examines the intersections of contemporary graphic literature and XXIst century’s technological disruptions. He is mostly known for ''Shapereader'', a system for tactile storytelling specifically designed for blind and partially sighted readers/makers of comics. He is also the founder of ''Applied Memetic'' an organization that researches the political repercussions of generative art and highlights the urgency for a new media-rich internet literacy. For a fuller documentation on the above projects, the Brussels-based non-profit ''Echo Chamber'' is responsible for producing, fundraising, documenting and archiving Manouach’s research on contemporary comics, that has been presented in solo exhibitions to important festivals, museums and galleries worldwide. He is an Onassis Digital Fellow (2020) and a Kone alumnus (2015, 2017, 2019) and he works as a strategy consultant for the Onassis Foundation visibility through its newly founded publishing arm..

==About CoCo==

* Benoît Crucifix, [[Media:Crucifix Benoit 2023 CoCo Conceptual Comics and Online Archives.pdf|"(CoCo): Conceptual Comics and Online Archives"]], in ''Ilan Manouach in Review: Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics'', ed. Pedro Moura, Routledge, 2023, pp 189-203. [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003374961-16/coco-beno%C3%AEt-crucifix] [https://twitter.com/BenoitCrucifix/status/1698728824551182416]


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