The bestselling, idiosyncratic curriculum from a 2019 MacArthur Fellow
will teach you how to draw and write your story
"The self-help book of the year."--The New York Times
Hello students, meet Professor Skeletor. Be on time, don't miss class,
and turn off your phones. No time for introductions, we start drawing
right away. The goal is more rock, less talk, and we communicate only
through images.
For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an
associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art
department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching
students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make
comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic
lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically encouraged.
Making Comics is the follow-up to Barry's bestselling Syllabus, and
this time she shares all her comics-making exercises. In a new
hand-drawn syllabus detailing her creative curriculum, Barry has
students drawing themselves as monsters and superheroes, convincing
students who think they can't draw that they can, and, most important,
encouraging them to understand that a daily journal can be anything so
long as it is hand drawn.
Barry teaches all students and believes everyone and anyone can be
creative. At the core of Making Comics is her certainty that
creativity is vital to processing the world around us.
