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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

punch detail

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

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

iPhonic Haiku

May 25, 2016 by matt 4 Comments

fregeneuil

A suite of haikus sent from my iPhone.

Filed Under: Blog, Writing Tagged With: constraints, poetry, writing

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

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

The Pictureless Horseman

July 22, 2008 by matt Leave a Comment

picturelesshorseman

An example of a comic made without images, an on-the-go collaboration with Jessica Abel while on book tour for our textbook Drawing Words & Writing Pictures.

Filed Under: Blog, Comics, Teaching Tagged With: constraints, DWWP, Jessica Abel, teaching

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