1. Holiday Books: Drawing.
- Author
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JENNIFER B. McDONALD
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BOOKS , *DRAWING , *FICTION ,REVIEWS - Abstract
When a book insists, ''Take art lessons from a monkey!'' the only appropriate response, if you ask me, is ''O.K.!'' Two years ago, in her Eisner Award-winning coming-of-art memoir, ''What It Is,'' Lynda Barry prodded would-be writers to pick up a pen (or a brush) and put it to paper. Her latest book, PICTURE THIS (Drawn & Quarterly, $29.95), taps into something more elemental -- the fuzzy-wuzzy part of the brain that sees elephants in clouds (or in this case, rabbits in water stains) -- and asks, ''Do you wish you could draw?'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2010