Overview
Hey! Are you an artist? Writer? Creator? All of the above? None of the above? Grab a pencil and this book to begin expressing your life in comics! This interactive guide is chockfull of fun exercises, insightful lessons, and plenty of practice space. Draw and write your own characters! Create funky panel shapes! Fill in the speech bubbles! Follow fun prompts to doodle, draw, and design! No writing or drawing experience is necessary—all it takes is YOU (plus a pencil or pen) to turn your ideas into visual stories, starring you!
Praise for comic artist, speaker, mental health coach, and New York Times bestselling author Ellen Forney:
- “Ellen Forney’s greatest strength as a cartoonist is her gift for explanation—getting information across with vigor, wit, and visual inventiveness.” –New York Times
- “Forney has a virtuosic understanding of what words and images can do in congress, playing them off one another in ways that allow her pages to be more than the sum of their parts.” –NPR
- “Brilliant” –Entertainment Weekly
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