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Matt Madden

comics, education, translation, oubapo

Notes from the Labyrinth, report #1: Jason Robinson’s One-Two Punch

September 6, 2018 by matt Leave a Comment

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Notes from the Labyrinth series I’ve been telling myself and my students that I’m going to write a blog post about the amazing work they’ve done and the rewarding conversations we’ve had in my last two Build Your Own Labyrinth constraint workshops but I find that there’s more than I could possibly cover in a […]

Filed Under: Blog, Teaching Tagged With: constraints, Notes from the Labyrinth, oubapo, oulipo, PAFA, process, student work, teaching, workshops

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

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

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).

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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.

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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 […]

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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

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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 […]

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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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Check out examples of my students’ constraint-based comics

November 20, 2010 by matt 2 Comments

I’d like to share a sampling of amusing and occasionally astounding work done by students of mine using constraints.

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