Busy, Busy Matt

Sorry for the lack of new posts. I've been starting up new classes and reading comics furiously for Best American Comics 2010. Best American Comics 2009 is just now hitting bookstores and is getting great reviews. We'll be doing at least one big event in NYC in October, details to follow. We'll also be announcing very soon the new guest editor so stay tuned!

Otherwise, cranking away on DWWP book 2, writing, editing, doing illustrations, planning a staged re-launch of the website... an endless to-do list. Thanks very much to all of you who send us nice mails or tell us in person that you have enjoyed the first book, we need all the moral support we can get to get through this next one.

I'm slowly seeing an end point to Drawn OnwarD, my first major story (32 pages) in several years.

Some interesting travel in coming months which I'll post about later.

And so on and so forth.

Oh, and I am involved in a really exciting book deal which I'm itching to talk about but can't quite yet.
I can however mention that I recently made a book deal for a Brazilian edition of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. That will be published by a house called Cosac Naify, a literary and art book publisher--notably, the Brazilian publisher of Queneau's Exercises in Style.

Meantime, follow me on Twitter for updates, off the cuff observations about comics, music, fatherhood, cocktails, and life in NYC. I promise I'm trying to keep the babbling to a minimum.
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Brooklyn Book Festival Appearances

I'll be moderating a panel and hosting a comics jam at this Sunday's Brooklyn Book Festival.
Also: a special talk with Guy Delisle for SVA students next Monday.

I'll be hanging around the BBF most of the mid-day and I also plan to hit the Gala mingle on Saturday evening, followed by Drawn & Quarterly's anniversary party at Rocketship. Here are the details for Sunday:

International Stage (Borough Hall Plaza)

11:00 a.m. The International Graphic Novel. Three acclaimed graphic novelists who tackle big social and political themes in their work discuss what the form can accomplish, from an international and domestic perspective. Featuring Guy Delisle (The Burma Chronicles), Peter Kuper (Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico) and Sarah Glidden (How To Understand Israel In 60 Days Or Less). Moderated by Matt Madden.

Borough Hall Conference Room

1:00 p.m. Comics Jam with Jessica Abel and Matt Madden A jam comic is an improvised collaborative comic. One person draws a single panel and then passes it on to the next person, who draws a new panel that continues the story. Get ready to draw and collaborate! For teens and adults. Participation limited to 25.

More details about the Brooklyn Book Festival here, where you'll find lots of other comics programming.

If you are an SVA student and are free Monday evening, I hope you'll come see Guy Delisle talk about his work an career:

Monday, September 14 at 7:00 p.m. in 310 E. 22nd St. 703G, Matt Madden presents
guest speaker Guy Delisle. Guy publishes here with Drawn & Quarterly
and has done a few travel/memoir comics about time he spent in
Shenzhen, China and in Pyongyang, North Korea. He's a French Canadian living in
France.

Open to students and faculty, no charge.

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