Matt Madden's Exercises in Style

Matt Madden's acclaimed Exercises in Style are back on-line on their own web site.



The newly launched site features eleven new exercises that have not been shown anywhere yet. Check in regularly for new comics and news about the project.



Matt's also happy to announce that an excerpt from Exercises in Style that appeared in the New School's LIT magazine has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for the Best of the Small Presses.*



About the project: Exercises in Style was inspired by a work of the same name by the French writer Raymond Queneau. In that book, Queneau spun 99 variations out of a mundane, two-part text about two chance encounters with a mildly irritating character during the course of a day. The goal of this project is to apply the same principle to comics by creating as many variations as possible on a simple one-page nonstory: different points of view, different genres, different formal games, and so on.



*The contributing editors of the Pushcart Prize anthologies nominated Matt's work from issue 7 in addition to Rachel Zucker's poem in issue 7 and Adam Desnoyers story in issue 8. SC