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 movingBarry’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 ofswirling 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.”



Format Häftad Omfång 216 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Drawn and Quarterly Utgivningsdatum 2024-04-02 ISBN 9781770467378