{"product_id":"9781770463691","title":"Making Comics","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaking Comics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Lynda Barry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling, idiosyncratic curriculum from a 2019 MacArthur Fellow will teach you how to draw and write your story\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“The self-help book of the year.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHello 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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 undergraduate, how to make comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically encouraged. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Comics\u003c\/i\u003e is the follow-up to Barry's bestselling \u003ci\u003eSyllabus\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarry teaches all students and believes everyone and anyone can be creative. At the core of \u003ci\u003eMaking Comics\u003c\/i\u003e is her certainty that creativity is vital to processing the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAwarded a 2019 MacArthur Genius Grant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eternally wise and strange.”—\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMaking Comics\u003c\/i\u003e is stuffed to the gills with Barry’s friendly wisdom, characteristic doodles, and mind-expanding exercises.”—\u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Barry pairs a spirit of wise and open encouragement with a demand for rigor... The underlying thesis of \u003ci\u003eMaking Comics\u003c\/i\u003e is that anyone can discover their own cartooning genius, if they are willing to put in the work.”—\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What’s most delightful about \u003ci\u003eMaking Comics\u003c\/i\u003e is its emphasis on action, on exercise, on practice—on actual making.”—\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Part motivational lecture, part creative writing exercise, part group therapy session, and part trippy meditation on memory and play… Barry is not only a genius herself but an encourager of genius in others.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eMaking Comics\u003c\/i\u003e] will help anyone, adult or child, to regain the spirit of freedom, improvisation and joy.\"—\u003ci\u003eKCRW Bookworm\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Books of 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the best books on unlocking creativity I've ever read: humane, interdisciplinary, fun, and in touch with something deep and mysterious.”—\u003ci\u003eBoing Boing\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An instructional book that doubles as a work of art... These lessons from Barry, like her art, capture her own brand of magic: a synthesis of theory, practice, memory, imagination, and “a certain sort of unlearning.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The activities, drawn from Barry’s own magical classroom, are fun, flexible, and easy to follow   [while] the reality that art drives and sustains us, if we let it, is present on every page… An engaging combination of how-to and why-you-must, perfect for anyone with a story itching to be told.”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eMaking Comics\u003c\/i\u003e] feels like taking a class from Marlys while stuck in the living room at your cousin's house, and it's a delightful, shed-your-inhibitions-about-your-talent kind of instruction.”—\u003ci\u003eChicago Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eMaking Comics\u003c\/i\u003e is] full of drawing exercises that help you access your creativity and silence your inner critic.”—\u003ci\u003eCBC Q\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMaking Comics\u003c\/i\u003e is both a tool kit of her comics-making exercises and a tender manifesto about how anyone can create.”—\u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There’s a serious theoretical underpinning here, and Barry’s lighthearted and genuinely fun approach is directly in service of it: banishing your inner critic, developing a disciplined (but playful) practice, and dismantling beliefs about what constitutes a “good” comic is key to finding something organic, original, and true.”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A sequential art legend known for her imaginative and deeply personal work... shares her comics-making exercises that detail her creative curriculum.”—\u003ci\u003eMy Modern Met\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A lesson in rekindling our inner spark...part philosophical discussion, part memoir, and part straight-into-the-vein fun.”—\u003ci\u003eBlack Girl Nerds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I've read a lot of writing and drawing textbooks, and Barry's is the only one that has made me choke up with emotion.”—\u003ci\u003ePop Matters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Delightful… [\u003ci\u003eMaking Comics\u003c\/i\u003e] offers a thoughtful, clear, step-by-step approach to generating creative work in words and pictures, which is daunting when a person is staring at a blank page and wondering how they could possibly begin.”—\u003ci\u003eNew City Lit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781770463691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Drawn and Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40688668639438,"sku":"9781770463691","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781770463691","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}