Making Comics - Lynda Barry

Making Comics by Lynda Barry / ISBN 9781770463691 / a 200-page book from Drawn and Quarterly. *** The bestselling, idiosyncratic curriculum from a 2019 MacArthur Fellow will teach you how to draw and write your story “Eternally wise and strange.”―NPR “Barry is pushing the envelope on understanding how the brain creates and responds to words and pictures ― a scholarly envelope that, in her mind, should be positively covered with illuminating doodles.”―The Washington Post “The self-help book of the year.”―The New York Times Hello students, meet Professor Skeletor. Be on time, don’t miss class, and turn off your phones. No time for introductions, we start drawing right away. The goal is more rock, less talk, and we communicate only through images. For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin–Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and und