One interesting thing to notice is how much more potential the students who are playing around have than the students who are super self-critical and serious. When we started teaching the class six years ago I was really burnt out on comics, and every year I get a jolt of love and inspiration from the kids in our camp. They're trying to make something just like Full Metal Alchemist or Spawn or whatever, but they can't yet, and instead their comics wind up being really fresh and original and weird. And their comics tend to be pretty bizarre. What do you most enjoy about that experience?Īll our students are amazing, man. This summer you have been teaching a teen comics camp. I also really coveted Lisa Frank products as a child. "Nita Goes Home" is brightly colored partially because I was inspired by Jesse Moynihan's book Forming. Or sometimes there's a stupider reason - in "Summer Snakes" there's a scene where they're watching a black-and-white movie and I just wanted the rest of the comic to look really different from that movie. The way I do the final art for a comic mostly depends on how fast I want to finish it and where it's going to be printed. What influences your decision to do a story in black and white versus a story in full color? Can you talk about your color choices for "Nita Goes Home"? I love the vibrancy of the colors in that story in particular. They are often about people struggling to be happy and not being able to succeed. The title of the book is sort of a joke because the stories in How to be Happy tend not to be happy, at all.
Maybe for the second printing of My Dumb Dirty Eyes Lisa can include a list of her favorite books about dogs. That's not the intent of the book, but because I know of some books were actually helpful to me in that way, I thought it would be nice to point folks to them. At some point someone somewhere who is sad is going to pick up my book hoping it will make them happy.
They get upset when they figure out the book is not about dogs.
What prompted you to include the note?Įleanor Davis: Mostly it was because of Lisa Hanawalt, who has had some trouble with people buying her book, My Dumb Dirty Eyes, because they think it's about dogs. Tim O'Shea: While the book is called How to be Happy, you make it plain with an author's note that it's not a self-help book, but you do recommend books that have been helpful to you.
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