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Matt Madden

comics, education, translation, oubapo

Another exercise in style

July 23, 2012 by matt Leave a Comment

Oubapo member Gilles Ciment came across these three strips while doing some research at La Cité Internationale de la Bande Dessinée et de l’Image, where he is General Director. They are from the 1960s and Gilles says they probably ran in the magazines Pif or Vaillant. Three different authors—Gotlib, Jijé, and Poïvet—were apparently given the […]

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A proto exercise in style?

July 7, 2012 by matt Leave a Comment

proto-99X

I came across a juvenile sketchbook of mine which had a crude one-page comic which seems to prefigure my template comic for 99X.

Filed Under: 99X Tagged With: 99X, sketch

My cartooning process, a post on dw-wp.com

June 9, 2012 by matt Leave a Comment

Putting the final touches on a comic Over on the Drawing Words & Writing Pictures site I have posted the second of a two-part post illustrating my working process, from thumbs to inks. Both are excerpted from our new textbook, Mastering Comics

Filed Under: Comics, Teaching

Forgotten Art: my cover for Top Shelf 6 (1998)

March 21, 2012 by matt 1 Comment

I was at my parents’ house and found their pile of “stuff our son has published” and spotted a book I often forget about, even though it was my most ambitious graphic work up to that point: my wraparound cover for the sixth issue of Top Shelf’s erstwhile flagship anthology.

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Sean Bieri’s “Exercise in Rage”

June 27, 2011 by matt 1 Comment

A small but significant news item: the first new “guest” variation on my Exercises in Style story in a good long while (5 years or so?). Unfortunately I can’t make heads or tails of it, but the artist, my good friend Sean Bieri, assures me that it’s a trenchant, spot-on satire of some current internet […]

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“Dugin Izazov”: ROYGBIV comics from Croatia

June 15, 2011 by matt 2 Comments

Marko Jačan’s ROYGBIV comic Darko Macan recently sent out a call for entries to his Croatian cartooning friends to do versions of my ROYGBIV comics constraint, where you assign one of the colors of the rainbow to each panel. He named it Dugin izazov (“Rainbow challenge”) and you can see the results—several of them wordless […]

Filed Under: Oubapo

Macho Man Memorial Comic: wi-fi explained

May 25, 2011 by matt 3 Comments

In 2004 I was hired to illustrate this really random comic for a really random tech magazine (whose name I can’t remember) and whose really random protagonist was Macho Man Randy Savage, R.I.P.

Filed Under: Comics

DW&WP: My comics-making process, part I

May 25, 2011 by matt Leave a Comment

Over at the Drawing Words & Writing Pictures website, I have posted in detail about my work process, from thumbnails to final pencils. I’ll follow up with inks in a while

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All the art on my studio wall, spring 2011

May 19, 2011 by matt Leave a Comment

huracan

A self-portrait in the form of all the art hanging on my studio wall in 2011.

Filed Under: Blog, Creative Life Tagged With: art, drawing, photos, studio

Bonus comic: cartooning over my students’ shoulders

April 13, 2011 by matt Leave a Comment

As a “bonus feature” to my recent post about doing improv comics from live models, here’s my comic based on the four poses from last summer’s session: I snuck quick pencils sketches of each pose in between circulating among the students. A few months later I inked it and added some text taken at random […]

Filed Under: Comics, Teaching

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photo by Gert Jan Pos, 2013

photo by Gert Jan Pos, 2013

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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