Category: | Book |
By (author): | Barry, Lynda |
Subject: | ART / Techniques / Cartooning |
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary | |
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General | |
REFERENCE / Writing Skills | |
Publisher: | Drawn & Quarterly Publications |
Published: | November 2019 |
Format: | Book-paperback |
Pages: | 200 |
Size: | 9.75in x 7.50in |
From The Publisher* | The idiosyncratic curriculum from the Professor of Interdisciplinary Creativity will teach you how to draw and write your story Making Comics is the follow-up to Barry's bestselling Syllabus, and this time she shares all her comics-making exercises. In a new hand-drawn syllabus detailing her creative curriculum, Barry has students drawing themselves as monsters and superheroes, convincing students who think they can't draw that they can, and, most important, encouraging them to understand that a daily journal can be anything so long as it is hand drawn. Barry teaches all students and believes everyone and anyone can be creative. At the core of Making Comics is her certainty that creativity is vital to processing the world around us. |
Review Quote* | "PRAISE FOR LYNDA BARRY Barry''s recent ‘activity books' which weave dense, brightly colored collage, narrative comics, and expressionistic drawing into philosophies of memory, pedagogy, and storytelling-are groundbreaking."-Hillary Chute, Artforum Lynda Barry [is] one of the greatest visual artists of our time." -Maria Popova, Brain Pickings |
Biographical Note | Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher and found that they are very much alike. She is the inimitable creator behind the seminal comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek as well as numerous comic books and graphic novels, and is the recipient of both the Eisner Award and the R. R. Donnelly Award. She lives in Wisconsin, where she is an associate professor of art and a Discovery Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. |