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What It Is

How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of 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. What It Isdemonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or to remember. Composed of completely new material, each page of Barry's first Drawn & Quarterly book is a full-color collage that is not only a gentle guide to this process but an invigorating example of exactly what it is: "The ordinary is extraordinary."

Subject
biographyself-helpeducation
Genre
humor
Themes
artwriterscreativitywomenartists
Setting
2000s
Mood
inspirational
Audience
young adultadult
Length
medium · 210 pages
Form
graphic novelspoetrymanga

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