how to draw comics

I just got a book about how to draw comics. It's called Drawing Comics is Easy! (Except When It's Hard). It's "by Alexa Kitchen age 7." She's pretty good. There are step-by-step instructions about expressions, posing, perspective, backgrounds, color, layout, shading. She doesn't talk about depth and perspective, but she exhibits it. Apparently, she doesn't realize she's doing it, or that not everybody does. (I certainly wasn't drawing with any depth at that age.)

There books are published by Denis Kitchen Publishing. Denis is, of course, her father. He's spent a few decades in the comics puslishing business. In the introduction to one of her books, he says

I was in the middle of a conversation with Will Eisner in our home last year when Alexa interrupted and handed him some of her new pages. Will was at first mildly annoyed but kindly looked at the material. He smiled and said, "Did your father help you with these?" She responded, "No!" with clear indignation. Will was quite skeptical till I assured him I had not touched her pages. (In fact, I'm not even allowed to look at her pages until they are finished.) At that point the inventor of the graphic novel interrupted our previous conversation for something he found far more interesting: her.

And I got a signed bookplate! Her website is www.alexakitchen.com.

Wikipedia

There are some really nice articles on Wikipedia. Then there are ones like this:

Krysta Scoggins is a very talented country singer. She started her career when she entered a group called 52nd Street and became the lead singer. After that she started appearing at shows as an opening number for artists such as Patricia Conroy, David Lee Murphy, and Brad Johner. Later she toured with the Canadian Militiary Christmas Show tour Which traveled around by egypt and other countries. This tour was also for US troops. Final Krysta decided to make an album. Scoggins released her debut album It's Up To Me in 2004. This album was acclaimed to be a very well thought out album. And nothing much has happened since.

This article is not acclaimed to be a very well thought out article.