A review of Lynda Barry's latest graphic novel, What It Is. The book is described as a moving and hilarious exploration of creativity, art, and the power of imagination.
Lynda Barry ’s moving and frequently hilarious workbook for making and thinking to Seán Hogan’s ripping yarn set in a Tipperary town Brotherhood Part 1 by Seán Hogan is a coming-of-age tale that recalls The War Of The Buttons and The Goonies. by Lynda Barry (Drawn & Quarterly), a joyous meditation on creativity by one of the world’s premier cartoonists. Barry is an interdisciplinary artist, whose latter work has been preoccupied with the craft of art itself.
In 2019′s scintillating Making Comics, she made the case for, well, making comics, and in What It Is she ventures even further into the terrain of ideas, images and even thoughts themselves. If that sounds heady and self-absorbed, the result is anything but. Laid out on her signature lined paper, short, biographical cartoons are interspersed with provocative thesis statements on creativity. Each section is headed with different axiomatic questions, pondering things such as: What are images, and are they alive?; What is the past, and what is it made of?; What’s the difference between memory and imagination?There’s barely a page without a picture to marvel at, a line of prose that doesn’t make you sit upright and read again. Throughout, we get glimpses of Barry’s own backstory, a childhood that sat “somewhere between happy and unhappy”, and her path to liberation through art. Crammed with thousands of drawings, paintings and pasted-in photo collage works, this is nothing less than a workbook for making and thinking, a long, moving and frequently hilarious examination of the best way to go about either enterprise. This is a book that brims with urgent, empathetic clarit
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