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Drawing Comics is Easy! (Except When it's Hard!) is a new hardcover book with rounded corners, created entirely by Alexa Kitchen when she was 7 years-old. The 176 page book, with color throughout, is presumably aimed at a peer audience of other children, but the idiosyncratic How-To book will appeal to readers of any age, especially those interested in cartooning, the creative process and the innocence of youth.
Alexa, now all of 9, has already received considerable acclaim for her precocious cartooning. She was interviewed in Comic Book Artist at 6, featured in Comics Buyer's Guide, praised several times in Publishers Weekly, caricatured in Print magazine and featured last year in the Dark Horse anthology Sexy Chix with Joyce Carol Oates among others. Accolades have come from creators as diverse as Will Eisner, Neil Gaiman, Mark Schultz (who wrote the Introduction to her new book), Patrick McDonnell and R. Crumb.
While this is her first hardcover book, the veteran cartoonist has had three earlier titles published (two are out of print) and has plans for "dozens" of new books when she isn't playing computer games and doing her homework.
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