Journal pages from the weekend-
*****It's Lynda Barry Love Fest time!!!
Lynda Barry's book is OUT. I bought it yesterday at the local big box book store 'cause I could NOT wait any more...two years is MORE then enough. Weird-it's in the HUMOR section (of course, I had looked in every section BUT that one...whodathunkit thinking it was a how-to, graphic novel, memoir type book...I of course, thought that there should be piles and piles of them stacked by the front door with a big neon sign pointing to them, but that would be too easy...and comics aren't respected enough like other books. Alas, I digress...).
Oh. My. God.
You NEED This book.
NEED it.
The first thing I saw when it hit me in the face at the bookstore was the SIZE. A glorious 8 1/2 x 11". 210 pure full color pages in beautiful Lynda Barry style. The book is divided into various sections reading like a journal/memoir throughout. It's also chock full of ideas guaranteed to pull your Muse out of hiding and have you aching and itching to pull your own journal out and WORK. This will be by my bedside for a while. Save your pennies, folks. Give up the weekly dinner outing. Walk instead of drive. Do *anything* to get your hands on this book. Even you crazy folk out there who claim not to like or read comics will be in serious need of this book. Go now. Get thee to a bookstore!!!
Comments
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dAwn.
it was kinda depressing in a way.
Made me cringe to read it.
If I hadn't read the words and just looked at the pictures.. it would have been an ok book.