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COMICS: FORM AND CONTENT
Thursday, April 13, 5-7 pm
MIT Building/Room 4-237
Husband and wife comic artists Matt Madden and Jessica Abel will be showing examples of their work and talking about different aspects of comics, visual narrative, and creativity in general.
Cartoonist and writer Jessica Abel' s graphic novel La Perdida was recently released by Pantheon Books. She is also working on a non-graphic novel for HarperCollins, called Carmina, and is collaborating on a graphic novel Life Sucks, to be published by First Second. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and is developing a comics textbook for First Second with Matt Madden.
Matt Madden is a
cartoonist and illustrator who teaches comics and drawing
at the School of Visual Arts. Recent projects include 99
Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (Penguin),
a collection of his comics adaptation of Raymond Queneau's
Exercises in Style, and A Fine Mess.
Abel and Madden live in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Free and open to the public.
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