— Jun 17, 01:17 PM — 

Intensely Graphic

EVENTS

Graphic Novel Intensive
June 21-29
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Book signing at Powell’s with Matt Madden and Jessica Abel
for Drawing Words & Writing Pictures
June 20th | 7:30pm
Powells City of Books [Map]

The Art of Peter Bagge
June 5-30
Floating World Comics [Map]

Comics and the Internet
An interactive discussion with comic creators at the Someday Lounge [Map]
June 28 | 5pm

ABOUT

Graphic novels tell stories in ways words alone cannot, their images interacting with text to form high impact, engaging narratives. And no, they’re not just for the “socially inept child reading issues of Spidey Super Stories while breathing through his mouth,” according to artist Matt Madden, one of the instructors for this summer’s graphic novel intensive.

Madden will join fellow instructors Jessica Abel (also his wife), Peter Bagge and Daniel Duford for a week-long course emphasizing the relationship of images and words in storytelling and narrative. There are still a few spots available, so register now.

INSTRUCTOR BIOS

Madden’s career in comics extends beyond creator to educator, and it is the culmination of these two worlds where his work is having the most profound impact. His book, 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style, published in 2005, has been a critical hit, and in time promises to be one of the more important books dealing with the creation of comics. His new book, Drawing Words and Writing Pictures, co-authored with wife Jessica Abel is due out in June 2008.

Madden currently teaches at Yale University and School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Abel’s La Perdida was a critical hit, winning a Harvey Award for Best New Series in 2002. In 2006, TIME magazine said Pantheon’s revised, collected version of La Perdida “stands out as not just the best ‘American’s abroad’-style graphic novel yet seen but as the best graphic novel of the year.”

Jessica has also received critical acclaim for Radio: An Illustrated Guide, her non-fiction collaboration with Ira Glass that offers a glimpse at how the radio program This American Life is made. Life Sucks, her new graphic novel collaboration with co-writer Gabe Soria and artist Warren Pleece came out in early 2008.

In addition to her work as both a writer and an artist, Jessica teaches at New York’s School of Visual Arts in the Cartooning Department.

Bagge currently lives in Seattle with his wife and children. He has worked over the years for various publications ranging from MAD to Oxford American to Hustler, as well as for major comics publishers like Marvel and DC. Bagge is a contributing editor and cartoonist for Reason magazine, his series Apocalypse Nerd was recently collected into a trade paperback from Dark Horse Comics, and his working on a new graphic novel for DC.

Daniel Duford is an artist and writer. His current work is a meditation on the difference between strength and power and the presence of myth in the mundane. In 2008, his collaboration with choreographer Lawrence Goldhuber will premiere at MASS MoCA and show at Henry Street Settlement in New York. He will also have a solo show at The Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta.

His illustration and comic work has appeared in Tin House Magazine and the self-published titles, Radio Relay Towers, The Green Man of B Street and We Are on Our Mind (with C.Hollow). His writing has appeared in Parabola, Artweek, ARTnews, The Organ, The Bear Deluxe, Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics: Technical and Ceramics: Art and Perception.

For additional information on the graphic novel intensive, visit the graphic novel page.

All images courtesy of the artists.

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