Mashup culture is alive and kicking (just listen to Girl Talk's new album All Day for evidence) and here's another by-product of mixing previously separated entities: Picture This, the new half-memoir, half-comic-workbook from renowned cartoonist Lynda Barry (and published by hip Canadian publishing imprint Drawn & Quarterly). From advice on what kind of doodles help inspire new ideas, to absurdest paintings of cigarette-smoking squids, the whimsical, autobiographical, thoroughly entertaining and heartfelt tome is full of cool stuff.
The holidays are upon us -- Picture This would make a fantastic gift for anyone, whether the aspiring comic book artist or your run-of-the-mill daydreamer. Want more? Here's a cool interview Barry recently did with The Paris Review.
Text Molly O'Brien
