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Ex libris / a comic by Matt Madden.

Madden, Matt, (author,, illustrator.).

Summary:

"Ex Libris revolves around a character trapped in a room with nothing but a futon and a bookcase full of comics. As they peruse covers, read stories and fragments of stories, they begin to suspect that the comics contain hidden messages and ... a threat. Fiction and reality blur; sanity and madness become increasingly intertwined as the reader becomes convinced the key to their predicament is to be found between the panels of the strange books. With a dizzying array of inventive visual and narrative styles, Ex Libris continues the line of exploration and play that Madden initiated with 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. Ex Libris is a tribute to the meta-fictional tradition of writers like Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cort̀zar, Vladimir Nabokov, and Italo Calvino (whose novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, was the inspiration)."--Amazon.com.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781941250440
  • ISBN: 1941250440
  • Physical Description: 105 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : Uncivilized Books, 2021.
  • Distributor: Minneapolis, MN : Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, LLC, 2021.

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General Note:
Pagination within pagination of approximately 105 pages featured throughout book.

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Subject: Books and reading in literature > Comic books, strips, etc.
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Genre: Comics (Graphic works)
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Ex Libris

Matt Madden is a cartoonist who has also taught in art schools around the world. His best-known book is 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (Penguin), a comics adaptation of Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style which led to his initiation into Oubapo, The Workshop for Potential Comics, in 2005. In 2013 he was named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. He has also done translations from the French and Spanish, including Aristophane's The Zabîme Sisters (First Second) and Edmond Baudoin's Piero (New York Review Comics). He wrote two comics textbooks in collaboration with his wife, Jessica Abel, and the couple were series editors for The Best American Comics from Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt for six years. From 2012 to 2016, he and his family did a four-year residency in Angoulême, France at La Maison des auteurs. They are currently living in Philadelphia where he is doing translations and finishing up his new comic, Ex Libris, when he's not looking after his kids or playing guitar. You'll find more at www.mattmadden.com.

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