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Matt MaddenAbout 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in StyleExercises 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. He started by telling it in every conceivable tense, then by doing it in free verse and as a sonnet, as a telegram, in pig latin, as a series of exclamations, in an indifferent voice... you name it.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 non-story: different points of view, different genres, different formal games, and so on. While the project has been floating around as an idea for years, it was galvanized into being committed to paper by the founding in 1992 of OuBaPo, Ouvroir de la Bande Dessinée Potentielle (Workshop for Potential Comics), a comics-oriented offshoot of OuLiPo (Workshop for Potential Literature), an experimental forum co-founded by Queneau himself in 1960.
99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style is published by Chamberlain Brothers an imprint of PenguinGroup USA. All material © Matt Madden. Matt Dube on Madden & Queneau. Read an interview with Matt Madden conducted by Daniel Nester at BOOKSLUT. | ||||||||||
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