Isthmus published an article featuring UW-Madison’s Lynda Barry and her latest book, “Making Comics,” which is “part memoir, part self-help, and a passionate call for introspection,” reports the Madison newspaper.
Barry, a professor of interdisciplinary creativity with the School of Education’s Art Department, holds the Chazen Family Distinguished Chair in Art. She is widely known for “Ernie Pook’s Comeek,” which she published from 1979 to 2008. Since, Barry has written 15 books and was named a MacArthur Fellow.
Isthmus reports that “Making Comics” is designed to be similar to the comics course she teaches at UW–Madison, but the newspaper adds it’s much more than that. Barry’s exercises aim to reveal to readers the ability of comics to transmit experiences of being and seeing in the world.
Starting with scribbles, Barry’s exercises gradually build to add more and more cues. Rather than giving instruction on how to draw cartoons, Isthmus describes her process as “learning to speak a unique language.”
Read more about Barry and “Making Comics” here.