99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style.

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.