Ex Libris Hardback
by Matt Madden
Hardback
Description
Ex Libris revolves around a character trapped in a room with nothing but a futon and a bookcase full of comics.
As they peruse covers, read stories and fragments of stories, they begin to suspect that the comics contain hidden messages and… a threat.
Fiction and reality blur; sanity and madness become increasingly intertwined as the reader becomes convinced the key to their predicament is to be found between the panels of the strange books. With a dizzying array of inventive visual and narrative styles, Ex Libris continues the line of exploration and play that Madden initiated with 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style.
Ex Libris is a tribute to the meta-fictional tradition of writers like Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Vladimir Nabokov, and Italo Calvino (whose novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, was the inspiration). MATT MADDEN (NYC 1968) is a cartoonist, teacher, and translator.
His best-known book is 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style, a comics adaptation of Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style.
His recent work includes the comic books Drawn Onward and Bridge.
He has been living in Philadelphia since 2016.
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:120 pages, Color illustrations throughout
- Publisher:Uncivilized Books
- Publication Date:09/12/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781941250440
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Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:120 pages, Color illustrations throughout
- Publisher:Uncivilized Books
- Publication Date:09/12/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781941250440
