Mon Jul 2, 2007 4:57PM5 comments ›
Mon Jul 2, 2007 — by Lillian Baker
BOOK REVIEW: Drawing Comics Is Easy (Except...)
An incredibly egalitarian review
Reviewed by Lillian Baker, age 8
I started making comics when I was three. When I was six, I made copies and started to sell them at soccer. Last year, when I was seven, I sold them at my dad’s table at the New York ComicCon. Alexa Kitchen wrote and drew her new book when she was seven, too. She’s nine now.
She is a talented girl. I can tell because I read a lot of her books. She makes up really really really good stories. I see that she gets inspired by Calvin and Hobbes a lot. She talks to her doll dog. His name is Kora 2. Other characters are Lucy, who is the girl on the cover, and Denis the cat.
It’s a book about drawing, not just funny cartoons. It’s very funny, though.
Alexa is a very nice girl.
Drawing Comics is Easy (Except When It's Hard), by Alexa Kitchen, age 7
Published by DKP
$19.95
www.alexakitchen.com
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Comments (5)
John Tebbel (6:15 PM on Mon Jul 2, 2007)
On a good day, I am inspired by Calvin and Hobbes, too.
Martha Thomases (6:42 PM on Mon Jul 2, 2007)
A terrific review. If I didn't already own the book, I'd run out and buy one.
Elayne Riggs (7:45 PM on Mon Jul 2, 2007)
Yay, Lillian! I'd love to see you do an email interview with Alexa!
Vinnie Bartilucci (10:17 AM on Tue Jul 3, 2007)
Alexa is very talented, and I look forward to seeing what she does as she matures. There's this particular one-panel gag on her website about a guy streanded on an island. It's one panel, but it tells an entire story on that one panel. Scott McCloud could spend an hour explaining the layout and composition of the gag. And she's like nine.
Tracy Edmunds (11:59 AM on Tue Jul 3, 2007)
Just FYI -- my girls (Shelby, 11, and Sarah, 8) reviewed Alexa's book and interviewed her a few weeks ago for our All Ages Reads column:
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=109956