For those of you who don't know Lynda Barry, she is an American cartoonist and an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Creativity at the University of Wisconson-Madison. She has also received a MacArthur Fellowship. Her work is stunningly imaginative. Her drawings complemented by her writing is the reason she has published numerous books...my favorite so far being 'What It Is'. I'm only a third of the way through her 'Making Comics' book, and what I've accomplished so far--is filling a Michael Roger Decomposition Book of my work based on Barry's Daily Diary practice. The first part of her course and that I did was to create a caricature-like image of me using the principles of Brunetti. The result is not as sophisticated as a caricature and not as simplistic as a stick figure. Rather, it is inbetween and has characteristics of how I think of myself (like having short hair, wearing glasses, my hands drawn as mittens, etc.). The daily...