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Matt Madden

comics, education, translation, oubapo

A Year in Philadelphia

September 8, 2017 by matt 5 Comments

mini tree

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

Five Exercises in Style: a Student Video Project

June 20, 2016 by matt Leave a Comment

Five short videos from Spain inspired by my 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style.

Filed Under: 99X, Blog Tagged With: 99X, oubapo, oulipo, Raymond Queneau, student work, video

Jessica and I Talk about Our Lives and Work on Swedish TV

June 15, 2016 by matt Leave a Comment

Matt Jess stockholm small

A professionally-produced video of me and Jessica being interviewed by Fredrik Strömberg during the Stockholm International Comics Festival

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Drawn Onward, interviews, Jessica Abel, oubapo, video

Teaching with Exercises in Style: a screencast lecture

June 2, 2016 by matt Leave a Comment

2016FumettoMatt

A short and entertaining screencast of a talk I gave recently to show off some student work from a 4-day workshop based on the principle of “exercises in style.”

Filed Under: 99X, Blog, Teaching Tagged With: 99X, comicsedu, public speaking, teaching, workshops

iPhonic Haiku

May 25, 2016 by matt 4 Comments

fregeneuil

A suite of haikus sent from my iPhone.

Filed Under: Blog, Writing Tagged With: constraints, poetry, writing

20 Lines Exhibit in Barcelona

October 7, 2015 by matt Leave a Comment

etHALL

A report from my first solo drawing exhibit in Barcelona in 2015;

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: drawing, exhibits, oubapo

Exercises in Style in the Classroom

February 11, 2015 by matt 1 Comment

A look at some of the many ways my book 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style has been used in a classroom or workshop setting, both by myself and by other teachers.

Filed Under: Teaching Tagged With: 99X, education, resources

Douze Morts…

January 9, 2015 by matt 8 Comments

My thoughts on the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks on January 7 2015 and how my children were affected.

Filed Under: Creative Life Tagged With: comics, france

Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 Comix

February 18, 2014 by matt 2 Comments

The mystery of the wordless comics broadsheets in François Truffaut’s 1966 adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: comics, film

Scenes from a Workshop

February 17, 2014 by matt Leave a Comment

I was recently invited to participate in a series of workshops with teens from at-risk populations here in Angoulême, France. The workshops are based on Raymond Queneau‘s Exercises in Style and my own 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (99 Exercices de style in the French edition).

Filed Under: Teaching

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photo by R. Carter Studios, 2022

photo by R. Carter Studios, 2022

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.

Where you can find me online

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Calendar

October 10, 2026
  • Philly Comix Expo

    October 10, 2026 @ 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    Old Pine Community Center 401 Lombard St, Philadelphia, PA 19147, United States

    I'll be wandering around and also signing my books at the Partners and Son table, time TBD

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  • Signing at the Partners and Son table

    October 10, 2026 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
    Old Pine Community Center 401 Lombard St, Philadelphia, PA 19147, United States

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Ex Libris (2021) paperback edition 2026

video reading of Bridge

https://youtu.be/Td5mmGY1uNA?si=LfqEho3S1ADJi0jP

Instagram

Join me Saturday (tomorrow) night to celebrate the upcoming wide release of the paperback edition of Ex Libris (@uncivilizedbooks) at @partnersandson !
Last weekend at @spxcomics I led a workshop where people made "imaginary comics" that might exist within the world of another comic (think "The Itchy and Scratchy Show" from the Simspons—or my own Ex Libris, which just came out in paperback from @uncivilizedbooks!). We had a lot of fun, here are a few of the resulting pages.
I was in Jessica's studio admiring the ink work on this sketch lying on her flat file and she said, "YOU drew that."
Cover reveal!
Portrait of the experimental art cartoonist as beach dad.
Secret signed copy of Six Treasures of the Spiral at @citylitbooks in Logan Square!

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