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Matt Madden

comics, education, translation, oubapo

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

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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

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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

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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

2013 Wrap-up and Checklist

January 20, 2014 by matt Leave a Comment

a recent portrait in Angoulême by Gert Jan Pos 2013 was a busy year for me and mostly a very satisfying one. I traveled all over Europe, visited the US, got knighted (really!) and made a lot of comics and drawings.

Filed Under: Creative Life

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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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