🐫Pipepunk

A page from Tsutomu Nihei's Blame!, the classic and defining pipepunk work.

Pipepunk is an artistic movement related to the pipe aesthetic. I coined this term.

Themes

  • Complex piping systems.

  • Wires, cords, ropes.

  • Power lines.

  • Brutalist architecture.

  • Monumental architecture.

  • Living inside things that were not meant for living, such as big empty pipes.

  • Futility of struggle.

My drawings

See pipepunk gallery for the gallery of my pipepunk drawings.

Solinopolis is where most of the pipepunkery happens.

A thread from the Fediverse

@bx@tiny.tilde.website

i had no idea there was a word for this style!
id often see one or two scenes in a cartoons as a kid that kinda matched this look and they really stuck with me, ended up doing allot of doodles like this

I'm glad you liked it! I coined the term. Will you share your doodles?

@bx@tiny.tilde.website

sadly most of them are in old books or loose paper that isn't at all well organised...

I do kinda feel like doing some new ones though!

Maybe it's time to organize them?

@bx@tiny.tilde.website

I've definatly tried, before but gur best i have is them being semi chronological, but it doesnt really make it easy to search. and theres also those doodles that just get lost

P. S. They did share: https://tiny.tilde.website/@bx/107917592616829307

Fitting works

There are no people, except for me, who made any kind of fiction explicitly wanting to do pipepunk. Usually, they just like pipes. It's a descriptive term, after all. Here are some works I consider pipepunk enough.

  • Girls' Last Tour by tkmiz. A big source of inspiration. I have all volumes physically.

  • Anything by Tsutomu Nihei. I think he is the pipepunk author. Starting with BLAME!, he defined the classic tropes of the genre. It had extremely epic artwork but unclear storytelling. His storytelling improved over time, but his art never withered. I also consider his latest work, Tower Dungeon, to also be a pipepunk work, despite not having pipes per se.

  • Chute system from Bionicle. A pipe system used for transportation across the City of Legends.

  • Submitted. Riding tubes from Futurama. Video on YouTube.

  • Samosbor. This folklore story is probably inaccessible to you if you don't know Russian. Are there translations? There is also a wiki: https://samosborarchive.fandom.com/ru/wiki. Some site: https://samosb.org/

  • Neauismetica by Devine Lu Linvega. xxiivv>neauismetica.

  • what else?