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Matt Madden

comics, education, translation, oubapo

My Blog Is Now on Substack

February 24, 2026 by matt Leave a Comment

I started blogging again in 2024 but I combined it with my mailing list and I’ve been posting everything over on Substack.

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Silent Running: an exercise in “iconic restriction”

September 27, 2024 by matt Leave a Comment

This is an experiment Tom Hart, Jason Little and I developed for the oubapo-america website back in 2002. The idea was to create four ambiguous, generic panels and make them available for use as kind of clip-art comics panels. We encouraged people to print out as many copies as they wanted and recombine them, add […]

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Ex Libris: final cover design!

June 5, 2021 by matt Leave a Comment

ex libris cover

The final cover of my upcoming comic, Ex Libris, coming out in October from Uncivilized Books

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ESCAPE: A one page sneak peek of my new book, Ex Libris

November 24, 2020 by matt 1 Comment

Here’s a little teaser for Ex Libris in the form of a single-page “comic-within-a-comic” followed by some notes about the circuitous route this comic took before ending up in my book

Filed Under: Blog, Comics Tagged With: art spiegelman, comics by Matt, condorito, dylan horrocks, emanata, hicksville, maus, metafiction, oubapo, plop, preview, wip

La Cigüeña: notes on a comic

January 22, 2018 by matt Leave a Comment

A behind-the-scenes look at my comic, La Cigüeña (2011).

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99 More Potential Exercises in Style

November 14, 2017 by matt 3 Comments

diagram

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.

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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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