One Page Wonders: Captain A-OK Fights Blug-Glub-Glub

By idiots books

Idiots’Books and Tor.com are happy to bring you One Page Wonders, an exciting new way of hiding a dozen different stories—all of which can be unlocked with a pair of scissors and a few deft folds—in a single sheet of paper. This week’s installment is called “Captain A-OK Fights Blug-Glub-Glub.” To figure out how to create these tiny books, please follow the instructions below.

1. Download the instruction sheet, which will look something like this.

Print it out if you think it will be helpful.

2. Download and print out the story PDF, which will look a little bit like this.

Make sure you tell the printer to print at actual size rather than shrinking or centering the image. A color printer would certainly be preferable if you have access to one, but black and white will do if you don’t.

3. You can assemble and read the story based just on these two items, but if you’d like a bit of a helping hand, the following video will do splendidly.

4. Read it a million times and enjoy it every one.

More One Page Wonders can be found at the collection page.

13 comments

1. mmSeason
VIEW ALL BY · Tuesday March 10, 2009 02:09pm EDT

Wow, and thrice wow.

2. R.Fife
VIEW ALL BY · Tuesday March 10, 2009 03:05pm EDT

at first I was a little confused, but the more I read, the more I realized. Quite fun how it twists so many different stories out of 8 phrases and pictures.

3. rpenalozan
VIEW ALL BY · Tuesday March 10, 2009 04:35pm EDT

I fourth that wow :)

4. gerd Schenk
Tuesday March 10, 2009 05:48pm EDT

Ok- nice idea for a comic!
But I now the "book" making - i do it in school for MINI-books....

and there is a program to do it yourself...

see Googl for PagePacker !

5. mmSeason
VIEW ALL BY · Wednesday March 11, 2009 07:32am EDT · amended on Wednesday March 11, 2009 07:35am EDT

Personally i'd rather do the pix by hand.

How come you aren't on Wikipedia?

I've blogged this already, about to find out how to tweet it on Twitter (if that is the correct terminology, lol (who me? middle-aged and backward?)), not that anyone will know what i do on Twitter.

Can't say much more about it in a blogpost than the wow. Except i'm determined to work out a multiway story.

Reads a bit like Consequences, or whatever name you know for that game.

Ooh! New idea! Rhyming narrative one-pagers!

6. dofnup
Wednesday March 11, 2009 01:26pm EDT

Gaaah!! I keep getting a "drawing error" in Acrobat, preventing printing and frustrating me to no end!!

7. pablodefendini
VIEW ALL BY · Wednesday March 11, 2009 05:50pm EDT

@dofnup #6
Make sure you have the latest version of Acrobat Reader.

8. TooMuchExposition
VIEW ALL BY · Thursday March 12, 2009 12:54pm EDT

dofnup @6: Foxit is also pretty swell.

9. chricton
VIEW ALL BY · Friday March 13, 2009 12:26pm EDT

I printed the page and did the folding and cutting, but the drawings didn't line up. Then I noticed there was more white space at one end of the paper than the other end. Aligning the surrounding text gave a better presentation than aligning on the paper edges.

What fun.

10. avidreader
VIEW ALL BY · Friday March 13, 2009 03:11pm EDT

I would have liked to see the video, but the link seems to be gone, when I viewed the page. This is going to be very interesting to try out. I've never seen it before.

11. Lydia
VIEW ALL BY · Saturday March 14, 2009 06:34am EDT

Impressive. I could see this used as an enrichment activity in an elementary school classroom.

12. mmSeason
VIEW ALL BY · Monday March 16, 2009 11:11am EDT

@10 avidreader: The vid's working for me, but if you can't get it, try here. Hth.

13. black_swan
VIEW ALL BY · Wednesday December 02, 2009 08:59am EST

This is awesome...
I have a soft spot for people making art out of a single sheet of paper. A couple of weeks ago I was at the Venice Biennale and there was this exhibition by a Cuban artist, whose name I totally.