99 Ways To Tell a Story: Exercises in Style is a 2005 experimental graphic novel by Matt Madden, published by the Penguin Group. Inspired by Raymond Queneau's 1947 book Exercises in Style, it tells the same simple story in 99 different ways. The book is based on a simple one-page anecdote: a man (Madden himself) sits at his desk, gets up, walks to the refrigerator, tells someone (his wife, fellow cartoonist Jessica Abel) the time, and then realizes he's forgotten why he got up in the first place. Madden then re-draws and re-tells the same set of events 99 times in different genres and drawing styles, in the form of homages and parodies, and in formal experiments that test the boundaries of the medium of comics. These ways include: Superhero Bayeux Tapestry (as a "newly discovered" fragment) Political cartoon How To with an explanation of the process of drawing a page like itself parodies (such EC Comics' horror titles) underground comix manga fantasy perspectives (from a voyeur looking in the window with binoculars) refrigerator, a fixed point in space in the downstairs room) a map a lifetime digitally — entirely in binary numbers nested stories advertisements Public Service Announcement Paranoid Religious Tract Source: Wikipedia (en)