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Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly; Second Printing edition (October 21, 2014)
I always love Lynda Barry, but this window into her teaching process is both hilarious and inspiring. She understands how to build a safe creative space for teaching and how to push students through barriers to their best work. This is not a how to manual for teachers. It is more like a secret ingredient that will make an already established lesson or practice suddenly come out better.
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Lynda Barry is a creative genius and a force of nature. The text is 90% hand-lettered. Some seems rather quickly scribbled, so I found parts a bit hard to read. This slowed me down, but perhaps this may have been the author's intent. Barry takes some drawing projects, with attribution, from Ivan Brunetti's text, Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice. Found this interesting as Brunetti insists that the reader proceeds through his lessons precisely as instructed, in the order instructed. Lynda Barry has a far looser take on education, and improvises as she goes along. I teach cartooning classes at a university and relate to Barry's frustration with digital devices in class. The hand, she points out, is the original digital device. She also pleads with her students to document the totality their life experience, not to dwell on the boring bits. I could also relate to that. Too many students do lovely drawings documenting themselves and friends watching and complaining about the banality of TV. There are many things that will prove valuable to teachers here, like her blue pencil project, and Barry's imaginative way of taking roll. Anyone teaching cartooning, writing, or creativity in general, will find this of interest.
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This book is great. As a big fan of Professor Chewbacca's Tumblr blog, much of this book seems familiar. But it is excellent to see it laid out more-or-less chronologically - if I can't go back to school just so I can enroll in here class, at least I can pretend, and now I have the curriculum.
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This is a wonderful book for teachers in any creative field; It is also an incredible resource for visual artists who want to develop their ideas through writing or into writing. Anyone who loves Lynda Barry's 'What it is' will love this book. The material in this book is a continuation of 'What it is', but is never redundant; She continues to ask questions about how the creative brain works and includes many exercises straight from her legendary class at the University of Wisconsin. Highly recommended!
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As an instructor of basic and research writing courses at a community college, I find Lynda Barry's syllabuses to be inspiring and hilarious, as others have said! I am planning to use some of her ideas immediately, even though it is the end of the semester and we are "winding down." The exercise in paying attention to what we do, see, hear and then draw for one day (at a time) is especially tempting!
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What a pure delight this book is! As a teacher of creative writing, and practicing writer (and sometimes artist) myself, I resonated with so many of Barry's questions, curiosities, assignments and concerns as an artist. I also shared portions of this book in one of my ongoing workshops, Poetry Forge, where our discussion of "the aliveness of the line" (Barry's term) sparked a great deal of experimentation, enthusiasm, and new fans of her work. Barry also reminded me that I enjoy drawing--something I did during all of my youth--and so I've begun to keep more art supplies on my desk. It seems to open up the writing and serves to channel some of my ideas before they become language. Lynda Barry is brilliant, a one-of-a-kind mind. Thank you for sharing what you do with your students.
I recommend this book wholeheartedly.
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23 of 32 people found the following review helpful
For those unfamiliar with Lynda Barry (like me) who may be considering this as a gift for an aspiring writer:
Every page is _actually_ like the cover of the book -- a scrawl of images with a few handwritten words containing pearls of encouraging wisdom from the author. Apparently some people love it -- it was gushed over in the magazine review that prompted my purchase -- but it totally didn't work for me: It was like going to a concert by someone touted as a creative genius, anticipating Mozart, and instead getting surprised by Pinkham -- dissonance, confusion, and the disappointing thought that maybe you're the only one in the room who doesn't "get it."
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