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Matt Madden

comics, education, translation, oubapo

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

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

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).

Filed Under: Blog, Comics Tagged With: comics by Matt, comicsedu, español, oubapo, process

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

Five Exercises in Style: a Student Video Project

June 20, 2016 by matt Leave a Comment

Five short videos from Spain inspired by my 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style.

Filed Under: 99X, Blog Tagged With: 99X, oubapo, oulipo, Raymond Queneau, student work, video

Jessica and I Talk about Our Lives and Work on Swedish TV

June 15, 2016 by matt Leave a Comment

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A professionally-produced video of me and Jessica being interviewed by Fredrik Strömberg during the Stockholm International Comics Festival

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Drawn Onward, interviews, Jessica Abel, oubapo, video

20 Lines Exhibit in Barcelona

October 7, 2015 by matt Leave a Comment

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A report from my first solo drawing exhibit in Barcelona in 2015;

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: drawing, exhibits, oubapo

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

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