The Near-Sighted Monkey

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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 arranging speaking engagements, please contact the Steven Barclay Agency, www.barclayagency.com For literary permissions please contact Darhansoff and Verrill, dvagency.com. There is a little Etsy store called LyndaBarryArt. The tumbler search box may or may not work butif you try typing 'student work' into the search box you can see what we've been up to. Type in 'jukebox' to hear what we listen to while we work, or find our 'Drawing Time Juke Box" playlist on Spotify. Type in 'exercises' 'assignments' or 'homework' to try out some of the things we do in class. If you aren't getting any results then why not just jump to 'archive' or 'random' and roll through the last 7 years of Making Comics Action.

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“…You never really remember the beginning of a dream, do you? You always wind up right in the middle of what’s going on.”

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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,

Prof. SETI

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Murmuration!

SOURCE :http://vimeo.com/31158841

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Comics Room, Sunday. Classmate Rabbit is working on this weeks strip. I’m just enjoying being with my students on a sweet afternoon like this. @uw_artdept @uwmadison #uwmadison https://www.instagram.com/p/CqRAnfpjA8M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Today in the Comics Room. This is our second day of brush and ink. Today we are playing with gray tones. I’m in heaven when I see this work, each line evidence of a hand in motion using a stick with hair attached dipped in what is basically some variation of soot in watered-down saliva, which is a long way of saying our relationship to making ink and brush pictures is very old. Here is evidence of how hands moved paint brush and ink during today’s Making Comics 1 class. @uwmadison @uw_artdept https://www.instagram.com/p/CqG-jbfjeMf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Ink and brush. @uwmadison @uw_artdept https://www.instagram.com/p/CqGRKaIApML/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Poem https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp_MMSkLQWj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Poem: T’was a Sunday before Easter. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp_HnSUuGHM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🎶hey… did you happen to see..🎶🎶🎶 the most beautiful cat in the world🎵🎵🎵❤️🎶🎶 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp6QNn2DDKQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

There is a book to draw in on the kitchen counter and I do. Sometimes I’m just drawing for the feeling it gives me which is like the feeling roller skating gave me and knitting and crocheting and needle pointing gives me. It’s a radio. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp6QJwjrHPU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Pages from compbook. Once I decided to keep everything in one notebook I found a partner and participant in keeping the words and pictures and ephemera that are part of day to day life. That feeling I have about wanting to write something or draw something or make notes about something or glue something down— my composition notebook holds all of it. It’s a place. A time and space. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp1PP9mOuiM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I keep finding notes Like this whenever I lift a pile of books or sort stacks of mail or piles of paper. I dig this one. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpvN_-HOrG5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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30 seconds of Southern Wisconsin on day one of Spring Break. Whooooo!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpm_i74jank/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Dear Beloit College Students, here are the instructions for the exercise we did on Tuesday. Remember that you can do this exercise using fictional characters too, as a way to get to know them. @beloit_college #beloitcollege https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpl2Bixu709/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Me: Draw yourself on a skateboard like you know how to skateboard. In THREE minutes. GO! My students: (no hesitation!) @beloit_college #beloitcollege https://www.instagram.com/p/CplwoNlrniI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Dearest Beloit College students, I have the drawings you made of yourself on a skateboard. They were tucked into my compbook and I just found them. I’m so happy I overlooked them because how wonderful it is to have our class right here with me, all of you on skateboards. @beloit_college #beloitcollege https://www.instagram.com/p/CplwKTxL69r/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Teaching notes. Random. Spring semester, 2023 @beloit_college @uw_artdept @uwmadison https://www.instagram.com/p/CplutNbLT2M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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