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99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style was inspired by the book Exercises in Style 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—in different tenses, haiku and sonnet versions, as a telegram, in pig latin, as a series of exclamations, in an indifferent voice… you name it. Matt’s book applies 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.

 “I’ve probably recommended 99 Ways to Tell a Story 99 times. It’s one of the most useful, most accessible texts there is on creating comics.” —Andrew Farago, Curator, Cartoon Art Museum

“Matt Madden’s 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style is a fascinating analysis of and a treatise, of sorts, on language in comics.” —Steven Heller, author & graphic design guru, in The Daily Heller

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