Matt Madden

Matt Madden is a cartoonist and translator who has also taught in art schools around the world. He is known for his playful and inventive comics like the metafictional romp Ex Libris (Uncivilized Books) and 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (Penguin Random House), a comics adaptation of Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style which led to his initiation into Oubapo, The Workshop for Potential Comics, in 2005 and to his nomination as a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2013.
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, the whole family lived in Angoulême, France, while he and Jessica did residencies at La Maison des Auteurs. They now live in Philadelphia, where Matt is working on new comics and offering his services as a comics coach when he’s not looking after his kids or playing guitar. (photo by Robert Carter Studios)