Author: Lynda Barry

themes

  • on how kids draw and what we can learn from that

Summary

notes

  • a sort of “aliveness” to kids drawings that don’t get reproduced when you try to copy them
  • drawing is a “form of dreaming” and our task is to let our curiosity follow what it suggests
  • comics subvert our expectations of needing to draw a certain way
    • we learn to find alive things because we expect to find them
    • “we looked at them [things] like they could look back”