Product Description

Matt Madden's "99 Ways to Tell a Story" is a series of one-page comics that tell the same story in a variety of ways. Inspired by Raymond Queneau's 1947 work of the same title, which told a simple story in ninety-nine different styles and genres - haiku, sonnet, book jacket blurb - Madden does the same but in different styles of comics - Marvel superhero, R. Crumb, Herge, even as a map or the Bayeux Tapestry. Or he uses varying points of view, visual and verbal parodies, even radical reshuffling of the elements of the story. The result is funny, inspiring, and genuinely clever.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43248 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 220 pages

The Guardian
"A small work of genius."

The Sunday Herald
‘Proof that some of today’s best writers are cartoonists’

New Statesman
‘A fascinating and funny expose of the techniques of visual storytelling.’

Customer Reviews

Exercises in sheer artistic play
Based as it is on Raymond Queneau's marvellous and erudite 'Exercise in style' this play of comic narratives on a simple set of variations spun out on a single scene is pure delight.

I defy anyone to remain unmoved at the sheer inventiveness of styles and variations.

Like a comic version of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations - or dare I say it: Bach's Goldberg Variations.

Whatever the associations go out and get it.

You will not be disappointed.