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octopus_farmer's review
informative
inspiring
5.0
It’s a really nice way to make drawing and storytelling a habit. I like the lowcost materials and low stakes approach. I also love her comics!
thecommonswings's review
5.0
Just beautiful and at times slightly overwhelming in terms of the ideas just flowing from it. Barry believes, correctly, that art is for everyone and that everyone has an artform they can master. She is a shrewd, witty, thoughtful and passionate writer and full of enthusiasm, but better still she’s full of ideas to try and kickstart creativity and keep things spontaneous and fresh. It’s an enormously empowering book
lindsayb's review
funny
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
5.0
Super awesome as I expect Barry's books to be. So much of the exercises here can be adapted to straight-up creative writing, too. I'd saved this to do the lessons as I went along, but it turns out that just meant the book was collecting dust on my bookshelf. Maybe one day when I wake up from this interminable ennui, I'll get to it! That said, it's a great read (and visual feast, obvs) for the philosophy.
wrongvswrite's review
5.0
Based on the authors course curriculum, this is full of helpful prompts intended to encourage adults to take a childlike joy in drawing.
usernameinvalid's review against another edition
funny
informative
inspiring
relaxing
medium-paced
4.25
kristenbyers's review
4.0
This book is basically what would happen if a comic artist took their traditional course syllabus and wrote it down in a stream of consciousness combination of text and drawings. It’s a course syllabus as a longform comic strip (but not a graphic novel — too disjointed for that). So there were sections that were a little weird (like pages telling me I was going to have to move around the classroom a lot, because hello? I’m not in YOUR class and all classes are remote right now?). But I enjoyed paging through it nonetheless.