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Matt Madden

comics, education, translation, oubapo

Ex Libris: final cover design!

June 5, 2021 by matt Leave a Comment

ex libris cover

The final cover of my upcoming comic, Ex Libris, coming out in October from Uncivilized Books

Filed Under: Blog, Comics, Ex Libris Tagged With: books, comics by Matt, ex libris, news, publishing, Uncivilized Books

Ex Libris: my new comic coming to you this fall, pre-order now!

May 28, 2021 by matt Leave a Comment

ex libris cover

I’m very pleased to announce that my new comic, Ex Libris, will be published by Uncivilized Books and is scheduled to be in bookstores on October 12!

Filed Under: Blog, Comics Tagged With: comics, comics by Matt, news, publishing

Bridge: behind the scenes

April 22, 2021 by matt Leave a Comment

Bridge: a story that began its life as a 24 hour comic in France in 2013. I have a new short story out in the “mini kuš!” series of minicomics from the discerning Latvian publisher Kuš!. It’s called Bridge and it has an interesting backstory I’d like to share with you here. 24 heures de la bande dessinée, 2013 […]

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ESCAPE: A one page sneak peek of my new book, Ex Libris

November 24, 2020 by matt 1 Comment

Here’s a little teaser for Ex Libris in the form of a single-page “comic-within-a-comic” followed by some notes about the circuitous route this comic took before ending up in my book

Filed Under: Blog, Comics Tagged With: art spiegelman, comics by Matt, condorito, dylan horrocks, emanata, hicksville, maus, metafiction, oubapo, plop, preview, wip

Notes from the Labyrinth, report #1: Jason Robinson’s One-Two Punch

September 6, 2018 by matt Leave a Comment

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Notes from the Labyrinth series I’ve been telling myself and my students that I’m going to write a blog post about the amazing work they’ve done and the rewarding conversations we’ve had in my last two Build Your Own Labyrinth constraint workshops but I find that there’s more than I could possibly cover in a […]

Filed Under: Blog, Teaching Tagged With: constraints, Notes from the Labyrinth, oubapo, oulipo, PAFA, process, student work, teaching, workshops

La Cigüeña: notes on a comic

January 22, 2018 by matt Leave a Comment

A behind-the-scenes look at my comic, La Cigüeña (2011).

Filed Under: Blog, Comics Tagged With: comics by Matt, comicsedu, español, oubapo, process

99 More Potential Exercises in Style

November 14, 2017 by matt 3 Comments

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What if I were to draw 99 more exercises in style? I’m not planning to, but here’s a list of potential (and in some cases improbable if not impossible) candidates for a hypothetical second batch.

Filed Under: 99X, Blog, Comics, Oubapo Tagged With: 99X, comics by Matt, constraints, Exercises in Style, oubapo, potential, Raymond Queneau, refrigeration

99 Ways to Read a Book

October 30, 2017 by matt Leave a Comment

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Check out my new interview about books and reading at The Reading Lists.

Filed Under: Blog, Comics, Creative Life, Writing Tagged With: blogs, books, interviews, literature, media, reading

The Ambient Influence of Art Exhibit Posters

September 27, 2017 by matt Leave a Comment

Documenta 5

One of the most gratifying things about the exhibit I had of my 20 Lines drawings a few years ago was the chance to have my very own art exhibit poster. Imagining it hanging on strangers’ walls inspired me to write this short essay on the role posters play in our lives.

Filed Under: Blog, Creative Life, Drawing

A Year in Philadelphia

September 8, 2017 by matt 5 Comments

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The new school year seems like a good moment to post about my new life here in the city of brotherly love.

Filed Under: Blog, Creative Life Tagged With: comics, MdA, PAFA, parenting, Philadelphia

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Ex Libris reviews are coming in!

“This endlessly inventive work is a metafictional master class in comics.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

 

“A dazzling graphic novel.”
—Foreword Reviews (starred review)

 

“A formally inventive, deeply emotional tale.”
—Library Journal

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photo by R. Carter Studios, 2022

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I'm a cartoonist and teacher best known for my book 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (Penguin), a comics adaptation of Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style. Thanks to that book I was made the U.S. Correspondent of Oubapo, Workshop for Potential Comics, and later a French knight in the Order of Arts and Letters.

From 2012 to 2016 I did an extended residency at La Maison des auteurs in Angoulême, France. Since the end of 2016 I've been living in Philadelphia where I'm working as a part-time cartoonist and full-time dad.

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Ex Libris: final cover design!

The final cover of my upcoming comic, Ex Libris, coming out in October from Uncivilized Books

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