Inspires me: Lucy Knisley
Sexytimes poster! – Originally uploaded to Flickr by Lucylou
Back when I was reading (slightly obsessively) the Twilight books, I stumbled across a comic which summarised the saga neatly in 16 panels. Having only read the first two books, I let myself read the first 8 panels but then quickly clicked away before I ruined the rest of the story for myself. Last night I remembered it and took some time to track it down again. It had appeared on one of those tumblelogs that doesn’t credit anything, and just leaves a trail of “via” links so it took me some time. Finally I found it only to be delightfully surprised that it was drawn by one of my new favourite comic authors, Lucy Knisley.
I read her lovely French Milk recently. The comic journal about her six week visit to Paris is so full of food and art and places and family and her quirky sense of humour that I couldn’t not love it. Discovering that the Twilight comic was hers was a serendipitous delight – because it led me to her Art Journal and all her other comic fabulousness. She makes me want to draw comics again.
Don’t miss My Lost Weekend in the Meyer – Lucy’s Twilight experience but beware: Twilight spoiler alert
(this was so me too, but fortunately I had friends throwing the books at me)
…nyugh…must…get..to…bed…but that link to Lucy Knisley is toooo good. Love her stuff so much – thanks for sharing! Plus she’s looking at a John Currin book – who also rocks!
I love it! Hilarious!
Ha, ha – that was hilarious! Thanks! I know – those darn books are just so addictive. I was always so happy to be done with another one. So bad and so good – a vampire soap opera. I just emailed that comic link to a few friends – thanks again!And your new doll is really so cute! – thanks for spotlighting mine again, too. xoxo
I saw this book when I was in Paris and was very cute and it had a lot of realities of living in Paris, the good and the odd ones. Thanks for reminding me, I now have to buy it!
i had the same problem. i couldn’t stop reading it or thinking about it. my boyfriend joked that he would dress in black and make vampire noises when we went out so that i would focus on him. lol