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Matt Madden

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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

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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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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 […]

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Famous Artists Cartoun Pantoum

March 20, 2011 by matt 4 Comments

My comics pantoum experiments continue with this appropriated pantoum using instructional panels by an uncredited artist.

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10 Variations: an Obstacle Course preview

February 20, 2011 by matt 1 Comment

I had great success trying out a classic Oulipian exercise with my cartooning students at SVA, and I’ll likely do some version of it at my upcoming MoCCA Obstacle Course workshop

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An article about Oubapo on WSJ.com

January 21, 2011 by matt Leave a Comment

Etienne Lécroart interviewed about Oubapo The Wall Street Journal online edition did an article about Oubapo here.

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ROYGBIV: a one-page comic challenge

December 16, 2010 by matt Leave a Comment

I was recently invited to Belfort, a city in the east of France, to present 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style and to give an Oubapo workshop to art school students. I devised for the workshop, very much at the last minute, a brand new constraint which I call ROYGBIV.

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