BOOK REVIEW: Drawing Comics Is Easy (Except…)
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
On a good day, I am inspired by Calvin and Hobbes, too.
A terrific review. If I didn't already own the book, I'd run out and buy one.
Yay, Lillian! I'd love to see you do an email interview with Alexa!
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.
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=10995…