MATT MADDEN
"La principal fuente de inspiración fue un libro en prosa del autor del Oulipo Harry Mathews titulado 20 líneas al día, que es un documento incompleto de un período en que el autor escribía 20 líneas de prosa cada mañana en su despacho, como ejercicio de calentamiento. Lo hacía inspirado por una cita de Stendhal que hablaba de "20 líneas al día, seas un genio o no". Se tomó la idea literalmente pero de manera un tanto irónica y yo hice un poco lo mismo: a ver, ¿20 líneas dibujadas no son lo mismo que 20 líneas escritas? (casi siempre es más rápido, eso seguro). Lo puse en práctica cuando nos instalamos en Francia, ya que uno de mis objetivos aquí era profundizar en el dibujo, porque siempre tiendo más a la escritura o al pensamiento estructural/lingüístico sobre los cómics. Quería concentrarme en los aspectos más básicos del dibujo -líneas en un suelo- para explicar cómo las líneas llenan el espacio y se ensamblan. Quizá no tanto "explicar", sino más bien poner a trabajar mi mano, mi cerebro y mis ojos de dibujante y ver qué surgía. No sé cómo todo esto se percibirá en mis cómics, pero creo que es parte de un proceso para controlar más conscientemente mis dibujos, desde un punto de vista tanto físico como conceptual."
"The initial inspiration was a prose book by the American Oulipo author Harry Mathews called 20 Lines a Day, which is a partial document of a period where he wrote 20 lines of prose every morning he was at his desk as a warm-up exercise. He was inspired by a quote by Stendhal to the effect of "20 lines a day, genius or not". He took that notion literally in a somewhat wry way and I did the same kind of thing: well, 20 drawn lines, how is that so different from 20 lines of writing? (It's faster for one thing, most of the time.). I took it on once we moved to France because one of my goals here is to work on my drawing, which lags behind my writing and my structural/linguistic thinking about comics. My goal was to concentrate on the most basic elements of drawing--lines on a ground--to reflect on how lines fill space, how they fit together. Maybe not so much "reflect" as simply to put my drawing hand, my brain, and my eyes to work to see what would come out of it. How all that will translate back into my comics I don't really know, but I see it as part of a process of taking more conscious control of my drawing both at a physical as well as conceptual level"
"The initial inspiration was a prose book by the American Oulipo author Harry Mathews called 20 Lines a Day, which is a partial document of a period where he wrote 20 lines of prose every morning he was at his desk as a warm-up exercise. He was inspired by a quote by Stendhal to the effect of "20 lines a day, genius or not". He took that notion literally in a somewhat wry way and I did the same kind of thing: well, 20 drawn lines, how is that so different from 20 lines of writing? (It's faster for one thing, most of the time.). I took it on once we moved to France because one of my goals here is to work on my drawing, which lags behind my writing and my structural/linguistic thinking about comics. My goal was to concentrate on the most basic elements of drawing--lines on a ground--to reflect on how lines fill space, how they fit together. Maybe not so much "reflect" as simply to put my drawing hand, my brain, and my eyes to work to see what would come out of it. How all that will translate back into my comics I don't really know, but I see it as part of a process of taking more conscious control of my drawing both at a physical as well as conceptual level"