Purchase

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Add to Wish List

Also by Lynda Barry:

What It Is, May 2008
Hardcover

WHAT IT IS
By: Lynda Barry

Drawn & Quarterly
May 2008
On Sale: May 13, 2008
208 pages
ISBN: 1897299354
EAN: 9781897299357
Hardcover
Add to Wish List

Humor

“Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+” —Salon

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 Is demonstrates 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.”

Media Buzz

Talk of the Nation - June 2, 2008