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Lynda Barry is an educator, cartoonist, and graphic novelist unleashing the creative powers in others through a teaching practice centered on image making and writing. She has a passion for spreading ideas and helping others tap into their unlimited creative potential. Ms. Barry is exemplifies an optimistic, empathetic and persevering creative.

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Philosophy, determination & personal work

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Philosophy, determination & personal work

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Cartoonist Lynda Barry teaches us how to silence our inner critic and draw like a child

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Barry's MacArthur Award Project: Helping others tap into their creative potential

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Barry's MacArthur Award Project: Helping others tap into their creative potential

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Creative Thinking, Journaling and Empathy

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Creative Thinking, Journaling and Empathy

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Documenting All the Small Things That Are Easily Lost (Published 2020)

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An assignment for all of us to help capture an extraordinary time.

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Lynda Barry's Instagram: Keep up with her journaling prompts and creativity hacks

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Lynda Barry's Instagram: Keep up with her journaling prompts and creativity hacks

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Lynda Barry (@thenearsightedmonkey) on Instagram

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Cartoonist, teacher, blank Scrabble square.

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She has written four bestselling and acclaimed creative how-to graphic novels for Drawn & Quarterly, What It Is which won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Graphic Novel and R.R.

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thenearsightedmonkey:

Se Habla Monster!

Dear Students,

For Extra Credit, stop this video in four different random places, set a timer and do a five minute drawing of each frame you land on. 20 minutes in all for this exercise. Don't forget to draw your frame.

Sincerely,

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For and by the students in Lynda Barry's comics classes at the UW-Madison and elsewhere. The best way to explore this website is to click on 'Random' at the bottom of this column. For inquiries about...