Skip to the Fun Parts

Cartoons and Complaints About the Creative Process

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Pub Date 09 May 2023 | Archive Date 09 May 2023

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The perfect companion for anyone struggling to keep their sense of humor while staring at a blank page, Skip to the Fun Parts offers next-to-zero creative advice, and is instead filled with cartoons, commiserations, and jokes about the creative process.

Like you, syndicated cartoonist Dana Maier wants a creativity shortcut—a magical fairy who will both come up with brilliant ideas and grant the energy and discipline to churn them out. This book is not that magical shortcut—you won't find stirring literary quotes or a foolproof system for sparking inspiration here—but it does provide commiseration, comics, jokes, and reflections about the often-painful act of making something original.

Drawing on her experience as a cartoonist for The New Yorker and other publications, Maier explores topics such as embracing the agony of the creative process, how the pandemic has affected creative people in different ways, and the power of channeling your inner six-year-old. While more traditional creativity guides often make readers feel judged, Skip to the Fun Parts offers amusing insights about the realities of the creative process—highly entertaining for artists of all kinds and 100% advice-free!

"Of all the books I've ever read on the creative process (and I've read every one), this is by far the most useful, for its ability to remind me why we make art in the first place. I know I will turn to it again and again whenever I need to re-ignite the spark of childlike joy that fuels creativity."
—Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author of Am I There Yet? and My Inner Sky

"A funny, irreverent sendup of creative self-help and a comforting depiction of the agony and ecstasy in the creative process."
—Austin Kleon, New York Times bestselling author of STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST
The perfect companion for anyone struggling to keep their sense of humor while staring at a blank page, Skip to the Fun Parts offers next-to-zero creative advice, and is instead filled with cartoons...

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PAGES 128

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I'm not an artist person in any sense of the word. However, I sometimes, sort of, kinda want to be. This books is basically all of the reasons and thoughts I have about being an artist. It's hard. It's funny. It's full of bad ideas and terrible ideas and ideas that don't go anywhere. And yet. Yet it is amazing and wonderful and joyful when you do it.

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The book is quite funny and there were some good jokes. The writing on the cartoons was sometimes hard to read

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I absolutely loved this book. So clever and funny and something that anyone who has ever tried to be creative will love. I would recommend this to so many people in my life and am excited to see more from this author!

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This is a fun book about creativity. Insightful and flippant essays and smart and wise cartoons make the book very pleasant. The book concerns such topics as procrastination and going through all of your old creative work, to art supplies you must have (or not), and meditations on all matters of the art (or not) of creation. I enjoyed this, from an author I have not previously known of. Left me feeling up and inspired to move to my next project. So, that's good!

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