num_pages: 32
description: 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 dessine 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.
language: English
title: Drawn Onward: A Star-Crossed Comic
publisher: One Story