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Dazzled by Hypnotic GIF Novels

I Want to Make a GIF Novel Like Dennis Cooper - Wherein I Discover a Dearth of Femme GIFS

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Susie Bright
Jul 08, 2023
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I stayed up nearly all night… “reading” Dennis Cooper’s GIF novel, Zac’s Drug Binge — a novel created entirely with vertically stacked GIFs, which create all the characters, the plot line, all of it. It’s like taking mood boards into the Shakespearean and of course, the pornographic-surreal.

My blog software won’t let me “stack” the GIFs like Dennis does, where each one is tightly-matched, no white space, pure-diptychs— but here’s an approximation of two examples from his novel:

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