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Matt Madden

comics, education, translation, oubapo

20 Lines

November 27, 2013 by matt Leave a Comment

  I recently finished a one-year drawing project called “20 Lines”

Filed Under: Blog, Drawing Tagged With: 20 Lines, drawing

A Week in Helsinki

October 23, 2013 by matt Leave a Comment

I was in Helsinki in September as a guest of the Helsinki Comics Festival. Beforehand I taught a 3-day workshop at Aalto University.

Filed Under: Teaching

Lost on Fantasy Island (Strapazin 112)

September 12, 2013 by matt Leave a Comment

A strip of mine was just published in the Swiss comics magazine Strapazin.

Filed Under: Comics

Angoulême: report #2

July 16, 2013 by matt Leave a Comment

Let me start this post by reassuring those of you who read my first report from Angoulême that things are going much better for me now, and I thank those of you that sent notes (or made comments) of encouragement. I didn’t want to wallow in negativity but I did want to share frankly the […]

Filed Under: Creative Life

Haiku Comics

June 20, 2013 by matt 5 Comments

I recently taught a workshop to comics Master’s students at the École Européene Supérieure de l’Image in Angoulême, France. The subject of the four-day workshop was comics based on fixed forms borrowed from poetry such as the sestina, the villanelle, or the sonnet. (If you follow my work or this blog at all you know […]

Filed Under: Teaching

Bridge: a “24+7 hour comic”

February 18, 2013 by matt 1 Comment

At the end of January I hosted and participated in the seventh annual 24-hour Comics Day event at la maison des auteurs. I didn’t finish the whole comic in 24 hours—I only got to page 16—so I devoted another seven hour day to finishing the remaining eight pages. You can learn a bit about it […]

Filed Under: Oubapo Tagged With: constraints, oubapo

4 x 4: the OubapoShow post

February 12, 2013 by matt Leave a Comment

Recently my friends in Oubapo and some invited guests put on the first ever OubapoShow at the Cité Internationale de la Bande Dessinée et de L’Image in Angoulême (oh, and up the hill there was also some kind of comics convention going on?). We all did performances, slideshows, and live-drawing events. In my case, I […]

Filed Under: Oubapo Tagged With: constraints, events, oubapo

Oubapo in Translation

February 6, 2013 by matt Leave a Comment

I translated three short comics by members of Oubapo and wrote an introduction to the group and its principles for the International Graphic Novels issue of the literary translation magazine Words Without Borders.

Filed Under: Oubapo

Angoulême: first report

January 22, 2013 by matt 5 Comments

“So, are you scared?”

Filed Under: Comics, Creative Life

A history of American comic books in six panels

August 8, 2012 by matt 2 Comments

The History of American Comic Books in Six Panels (2012)

An oubapian comic I did for the Colgate University alumni magazine.

Filed Under: Oubapo Tagged With: comics by Matt, constraints

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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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