Drawn Onward by Matt Madden

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A man and a woman cross paths in a series of chance encounters in the New York City Subway system. As obsessions grow and falter, these characters walk closer and closer to the edge, striking a dangerous balance. With each new panel Drawn Onward adds a layer to the puzzle, using a mirrored structure of time and place to illustrate the fragile nature of love, and how we seek each other in our own reflections.

Matt Madden is a member of the formalist experimental comics group Workshop for Potential Comics (Ouvroir de la bande dessinée Potentielle - Oubapo) which is devoted to discovering and inventing constraints for making comics. Most of Matt's work since 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style has been created using some kind of rule or formal structure as a starting point.

In Drawn Onward, he creates a palindrome comic, a "crab canon" or "cancrizan", modeled after one of JS Bach's compositional techniques of a single melody running backwards and forwards simultaneously. Reading the comic in either direction will give two different experiences of the story, but only together will the complete story be revealed - if either version can be trusted.

32 pages, black and white, 7 inches by 10 inches (17.79 cm by 25.4 cm)

Also available digitally

Reviews:
High-Low Comics (including an overview of Matt Madden recent's work)
Robot 6
Topless Robot
Coverless Reviews
Broken Frontier
Dominic Umile
Tiny Pages Made of Ashes
Tech Times

Also available by Matt Madden:
Walker, published by Ink Brick.

http://www.mattmadden.com/

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