Lynda barry

Illustrator Lynda Barry has questions: What is an image? Where is your imagination? What is an imaginary friend, and are there imaginary enemies? Can you have thoughts without language? Barry grapples with these ideas and more in her new book of collages, What It Is.

St. Margaretsians, the blog is back! I give you a comic by Lynda Barry. Both her literary and visual works of art are full of childlike wonder, but without a stroke of naivety. Everything she creates is exactly this honest and transcendent (I think so, anyway). -Anna

Making Comics is both stylish and engaging, a graphic manual for artists. Lynda Barry balances reprints of her lovingly hand-drawn homework assignments with illustrated examples she’s gathered from teaching students of all ages and skill levels, from toddlers to college kids, beginners to experts.

Save your prose, save the day. Let comics creators show you how.

Lynda Barry (@thenearsightedmonkey) • Instagram photos and videos

Ladies Who Design on Instagram: “Art by @hagsville ✏️ "You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason." - Lynda Barry @thenearsightedmonkey⁠ ⁠ Tag…”

I've been a fan of cartoonist, novelist and memoirist Lynda Barry for decades, long before she was declared a certified genius; Barry's latest book, Making Comics is an intensely practical, incredibly inspiring curriculum for finding, honing and realizing your creativity through drawing and writing.

Lynda Barry quote "You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason."