A Picture This: Near-sighted Monkey Book by Lynda Barry

A Picture This: Near-sighted Monkey Book by Lynda Barry

The creative-drawing companion to the acclaimed and bestselling What It Is


Lynda Barry single-handedly created a literary genre all her own, the graphic memoir/how-to, otherwise known as the bestselling, the acclaimed, but most important, the adored and the inspirational What It Is. The R. R. Donnelley and Eisner Award-winning book posed, explored, and answered the question: "Do you wish you could write?" Now with Picture This, Barry asks: "Do you wish you could draw?" It features the return of Barry's most beloved character, Marlys, and introduces a new one, the Near-sighted Monkey. Like What It Is, Picture This is an inspirational, take-home extension of Barry's traveling, continually sold-out, and sought-after workshop, "Writing the Unthinkable."

Ernie Pook's Comeek, a comic strip by Lynda Barry, appears in 20 weekly newspapers in the United States and Canada. Her writing has appeared in a variety of magazines, including The New York Times, Esquire, Newsweek, and others. She is a Wisconsin resident.