Lettriste comics by Roberto Altmann

a page from the sequence
Zr + 4HCl → ZrCl4 + 2H2
U + 3F2 → UF6
by Roberto Altmann, a Cuban-born Lettriste, published in Cuban revista Signos #3 (1970).

more information: (1) & (2), courtesy of Domingos Isabelinho's blog,
& a slide-show put up by The Modesto Kid.

thanks, Mike Jacobson, for showing me this.

Follow Up Post about Asemic Writing in the Classroom

I thought I'd follow up my post on Asemic Writing in the Classroom with some images of some of the work. (I am now fully aware that I was not using Asemic Writing, but some of the work ends up being Asemic after all)

Today we pulled our first group of prints with a small group of special needs students. Here's what they had to offer:

Asemic Writing in the Classroom

I've been digesting some of the asemic writing that Andrei and others have point me towards.

Recently, I had the students look at Shaun Tan's book The Arrival, which helps the students understand how it feels to be in a new place and have no understanding of the language.

The students planned out their own asemic alphabet using this sheet and are currently adopting it into a movable type project.


I'll try to post an update when the project is complete.