What It Is
Published on 2. April 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-77046-737-8 (ISBN)
Description
Lynda Barry s bestselling treatise on creativity, What It Is, is now available in paperback. How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? What is an image? What is the past? For decades, these questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry s compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. Barry s What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive mind who wishes to write or to remember. In this exploratory workbook, confessional, and memoir each page is a full-color collage that is a gentle guide to the creative process packed full of swirling collaged images with pen and ink drawings on Barry s signature legal paper. Barry s award winning book is an invigorating example of exactly what it is: The ordinary is extraordinary.
Reviews / Votes
The collages in legendary cartoonist Lynda Barry s What It Is are a bathysphere-like odyssey through the depths of her funky subconscious.' - Vanity Fair. 'What It Is is equal parts cartoon memoir, collage album, scrapbook, and Zen roadmap. Written and drawn in a chaotic but riveting style, it offers itself as a guide to creative self-ignition.', The Boston Globe. 'The magic of that moment and of all Barry's self-examinations is that her ideas apply to just about everybody.', OprahMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
Canada
Illustrations
Full-colour illustrations throughout
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 188 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
636 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77046-737-8 (9781770467378)
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Person
Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher and found that they are very much alike. She lives in Wisconsin, where she is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Creativity at the University of Wisconsin Madison. In 2019, she received the Genius grant from the MacArthurs Fellows program. In addition to What It Is, Barry has written four bestselling and acclaimed creative how-to graphic novels, What It Is; Picture This; Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor; and Making Comics. Her seminal comic strip, Ernie Pook's Comeek, features Marlys, Maybonne, and Freddie and was collected into The! Greatest! of! Marlys!, The Freddie Stories, Come Over Come Over, My Perfect Life, and It s So Magic. Her other books include One! Hundred! Demons!, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, and The Good Times are Killing Me.