How to Draw.

I couldn't sleep and was listening to a late-nite talk show... the interviewer was talking to someone named Linda Barry.  Linda is a comic cartoonist and bubbly personality.. with a wonderful ready laugh.  She created a book entitled: One Hundred Demons.  I immediately bought it and uploaded it to my Kindle.  I can't wait to read it.

During the interview, Linda said that anybody could draw, and she outlined the following steps to be taken.

1.  Obtain 4  3x5 cards. Put a different question on each card.

2.  Obtain an 8/12 by 11 piece of typewriting paper.  Fold it in quarters.

3.  Draw some squiggles and lines randomly in each quarter of the paper.

4.  Using the lines and squiggles, draw a monster in the first quarter.  (Since nobody knows what a monster really looks like, just let it all hang out.)

5.  Have your monster open its mouth and ask one of your questions.

6.  Now, draw the monster's parents.

7.  Repeat for the remaining three quarters of the paper.

8.  Now have each monster talk to each other.

Now you've got it!  You are drawing a comic strip.  Congratulations!

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