Matt Madden

Oct 19, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Keiichi Koike |Lee Dean |Matt Madden

Ashley Robin Franklin. Silver Sprocket, $39.99 (376p) ISBN 979-8-88620-041-6This lush, sensuous body horror collection from Franklin (The Hills of Estrella Roja) electrifies with its chilling depictions of decay and regeneration. Spooky and satisfying folktales include “No Bones Nancy” and “Fruiting Bodies,” which evoke American murder ballads and campfire yarns.

Oct 12, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Keum Suk Gendry-Kim |Keiichi Koike |Lee Dean |Matt Madden

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, trans. from Korean by Janet Hong. Drawn & Quarterly, $24.95 trade paper (212p) ISBN 978-1-7704-6731-6Harvey Award winner Gendry-Kim (The Waiting) delivers a poignant semi-autobiographical graphic novel about a couple who love dogs, in a small town that often does not. Yuna and her husband, Hun, move from Seoul to the countryside for their anxious dog Carrot’s benefit (after dosing Carrot with Prozac doesn’t do the trick).

Sep 20, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Lee Dean |Matt Madden |David Walker |Marcus Anderson

Alain Chevarier and Mark McGuire. Mad Cave, $19.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-54580-841-2A father hopes to rein in his quick temper in the brooding graphic novel debut from filmmakers Chevarier and McGuire. Pat keeps snapping at his elementary school–age kids, Sam and Lily. Though the outbursts—during which he’s drawn as a looming grizzly bear—tend to stem from a protective impulse, he is troubled by echoes of his own father’s alcohol-fueled rages.

Jul 28, 2024 | terryfreedman.substack.com | Terry Freedman |Matt Madden

It was, surely, only a matter of time before someone would take Raymond Queneau’s idea of exercises in style and apply it to mathematics. In case you’re not familiar with the ‘exercises’, I’m referring to Exercises in Style, in which Queneau takes a very simple and banal story and rewrites it in a variety of styles. Matt Madden took the idea and ran with it in the field of comic art. I took up the idea and used it as the foundation of my ‘experiments in style’ series.

Jul 1, 2024 | terryfreedman.substack.com | Terry Freedman |Rebecca Holden |Joel Miller |Matt Madden

In which Terry talks about some experiences while travelling in London, saxophone lessons, and other persiflage. Greetings!I am delighted to share that I will never make an announcement starting with the words “I am delighted to share”. We get enough of that on Linkedin. “I am delighted to share that I have been given a prestigious award/appointed to the post of Head of Musak at Bog Lane School/speaking at such and such a conference” etc ad nauseum.