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Matt Madden

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A history of American comic books in six panels

August 8, 2012 by matt 2 Comments

Here’s a new comic I did for the Colgate University alumni magazine, Colgate Scene:

©Matt Madden 2012
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I drew it to accompany a very good article by Professor Paul Lopes on the evolution in the US from the comic book to the graphic novel.

For those who are curious here’s a list of the references in each panel:
panel 1: Siegel & Shuster’s Superman
panel 2: Harvey Kurtzman & Wally Wood’s parody, “Superduperman” from Mad Magazine
panel 3: an R. Crumb pastiche, featuring one of his iconic “keep on truckin'” figures
panel 4: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen (this panel is copied pretty directly from a Vietnam flashback in the book)
panel 5: art spiegelman’s Maus (the panel I swiped the background from happens to appear in the article)
panel 6: the foreground figure is a Chris Ware character (equal parts Jimmy Corrigan and “Super-Man”) and the background is an invented out-take from the final pages of Daniel Clowes‘ Ghost World

I even got featured in a mini-interview at the end of the article:

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Comments

  1. ed2962 says

    August 12, 2012 at 6:23 PM

    I really enjoyed this strip. Very cool.

    Reply
  2. Christian Kaw says

    September 17, 2012 at 7:35 AM

    Funny stuff. Are creators thinking too much these days?

    Reply

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