99 Ways to tell a story
Matt Madden has created his own exercises in style in comics form, and I’m here to say that it stands out. Who sits down one day and decides they're going to write a book, on 99 ways to tell the same-exact story.The story goes like this:
Matt gets up from working at his computer. He walks into another room of the apartment. From upstairs his wife Jessica asks for the time, and Matt answers her. He goes to the refrigerator and opens it. He can’t recall what he was looking for.
That’s the story, and I read it ninety-nine times without getting bored. LOL...hahahaha
The first comic in the book is the “Template,” the stylistically generic form of the story, though, as Matt points out in the introduction, after reading the others, even this generic comic begins to show its stylistic decisions.
In my opinion,Matt Madden has materialized this concept in comics. The vast range of “plots” he creates from the same “story” is not only fun to read and interesting to consider but also a textbook for the comics creator. With this book, he has shown how far the imagination can take many from the simplest of beginnings.
I enjoy reading this book..."99 times"...lol
