What It Is

Product Description

What It Is demonstrates a tried-&-true creative method that is playful, powerful & accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or remember. Bursting with full-colour drawings, comics & collages, autobiographical sections & gentle creative guidance, each page is an invigorating example of exactly what it is: ' The ordinary is extraordinary'. Lynda Barry explores the depths of the inner & outer realms of creation & imagination, where play can be serious, monsters have purpose & not knowing is an answer unto itself.

How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? These types of questions permeate the pages of What It Is, with words attracting pictures & conjuring places through a pen that first & foremost keeps on moving. Her insight & sincerity will tackle the most persistent of inhibitions, calling back every kid who quit drawing to feel alive again at the experiential level.