5/12/2023 0 Comments Time for a Change by Lynda PageAnd that is her intention with Making Comics, which is styled like a graphic manual for educators and students of cartooning but will appeal to anyone who struggles to articulate the ins and outs of what they think makes a good drawing. She has won critical acclaim for decades, for everything from comics she wrote during her college days working with Matt Groening ( The Simpsons) at Seattle’s influential alternative comics breeding ground, Evergreen State University, to the many strips she’s had published in national newspapers, to her Eisner Award-winning 2008 memoir What It Is her 1988 illustrated novella, The Good Times Are Killing Me, even became an off-Broadway play.Īll of these accomplishments make Barry an ideal candidate to teach cartooning. In the book, Barry makes a similar assertion to Beuys by using the experience and anecdotes she’s accumulated during her tenure as a professor of comic book studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. If everyone is an artist, why can’t I draw literally anything I’d ever feel comfortable showing another person?īut it’s Beuys’s quote that comes to mind when reading Making Comics, the latest handwritten college textbook-of-sorts by the highly successful cartoonist Lynda Barry. It’s a haunting and highly debatable claim, one that people who feel less artistically inclined might instantly refute. “ Everyone is an artist,” the German painter/sculptor/performance artist/scholar Joseph Beuys famously said.
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