{"title":"Matt Madden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatt Madden\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts graphic novels that blend inventive storytelling with visual experimentation. His work often plays with narrative form and structure, inviting readers to engage with comics in fresh and unexpected ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles like \u003cem\u003eEx Libris\u003c\/em\u003e, Madden explores themes of literature, creativity, and the nature of storytelling itself. Fans of graphic novels that challenge conventions will find his books thought-provoking and uniquely satisfying.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ex-libris-by-matt-madden-9781941250440","title":"Ex Libris","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEx Libris\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a dizzying array of inventive visual and narrative styles, \u003ci\u003eEx Libris\u003c\/i\u003e continues the line of exploration and play that Madden initiated with \u003ci\u003e99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eEx Libris\u003c\/i\u003e is a tribute to the meta-fictional tradition of writers like Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Vladimir Nabokov, and Italo Calvino (whose novel, \u003ci\u003eIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e, was the inspiration).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMatt Madden (NYC 1968) is a cartoonist, teacher, and translator. His best-known book is \u003ci\u003e99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style\u003c\/i\u003e, a comics adaptation of Raymond Queneau's \u003ci\u003eExercises in Style\u003c\/i\u003e. His recent work includes the comic books \u003ci\u003eDrawn Onward\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBridge\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been living in Philadelphia since 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424102727916,"sku":"9781941250440","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781941250440.jpg?v=1774769139"},{"product_id":"six-treasures-of-the-spiral-by-matt-madden-9781941250655","title":"Six Treasures of the Spiral","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn author struggles to understand an encounter on the subway that has led her to romantic despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix characters embark on a dangerous voyage, searching for a mysterious treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cartoon character finds himself in bizarre yet uncannily familiar scenarios.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree characters obsess over the same image and sense that their lives connect across generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNovelistic worlds in miniature. Hilarious hijinks. The occasional twist ending... The stories in \u003cem\u003eSix Treasures of the Spiral: Comics Formed Under Pressure\u003c\/em\u003e are inventive and wide-ranging, sometimes funny, occasionally sad, and always offbeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe New York Times called Matt Madden a \"stuntman-philosopher\" because he creates comics in the crucible of formal constraints. One comic is a visual palindrome, another maps on to the letters of the alphabet, several follow the rules of demanding poetic forms like the villanelle and the haiku. It may seem that strict limitation would stymie creativity; on the contrary, the massive pressure it exerts on the author's process bonds atoms of text and image together into comic diamonds that Booklist has called \"formally rigorous and narratively lucid.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMadden is an educator and evangelist for experimental comics. This book contains an extensive afterword that walks through all the game-like rules he used in the stories in this collection. He offers insights into how he turned the shackles of these complex constraints into a source of inspiration and ingenuity. If you want to explore new creative challenges, you'll leave this book eager to work on forging your narrative jewels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427852665068,"sku":"9781941250655","price":74.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781941250655.jpg?v=1774767270"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/matt-madden.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}