Matt Madden Zine Workshop: Five-Page “Foldy” Comic
Friday, November 22, 2024
1:00 PM-4:00 PM
In conjunction with the exhibition Philly Comics Now: The Art of
Graphic Storytelling, this constrained bookmaking workshop for artists,
designers and/or writers will begin with demonstrations of inventive
ways to cut and fold a single sheet of paper to create small booklets.
Participants will then be introduced to the "foldy" format: a 5-page
comic made using a single sheet of paper. They will make dummies and
brainstorm ideas for stories and drawings that will make use of the
dynamic elements of unfolding, changing scale, and forcing the reader to
manipulate and navigate the final booklet. Students can work using
analog or traditional tools. In this second session, first workshop
attendees are invited back to critique and troubleshoot their
works-in-progress and refine the projects in order to print out and
share final editions. New participants are also welcome.
For maximum work time, please join for the full timeslot.
About the Artist: Matt
Madden started self-publishing minicomics while living in Ann Arbor MI
in the early '90s. In 1996 Madden began writing reviews for The Comics
Journal and other publications—more recently he reviewed comics and
graphic novels for Bookforum. His first graphic novel, Black Candy, was
published by Black Eye Books in 1998; his second, Odds Off, was
published by Highwater Books in 2001. He also translates from French and
Spanish. In 2002, he was named foreign correspondent of the French
avant-garde comics group, OuBaPo (the Workshop for Potential Comics).
His book 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (Penguin), a comics
adaptation of Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, has numerous
foreign editions including Japan, France, Italy, and Spain, further
cementing his position as a leading figure in experimental comics.
Madden is based in Philadelphia with his wife, Jessica Abel, and their
two children. Together they wrote the comics textbook, Drawing Words
& Writing Pictures, published by First Second. The couple are also
co-series editors of The Best American Comics from Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt. Their follow-up to DW&WP, Mastering Comics, was published
by First Second in the spring of 2012.
Contact Information
Pearlstein Gallery
gallery@drexel.edu