Fearless Creativity: Lessons from Teenagers

What teenagers taught me when I was supposed to be teaching them

Thanks for reading The Habit of Art by Kelcey Ervick, my illustrated newsletter about writing, drawing, and storytelling as radical acts (that look a lot like sitting at a desk). Some of you are new here, so welcome! I love writing and drawing these posts and am grateful to everyone who follows along.

My daughter hasn’t been a teenager for a while, and my college students are mostly older too, so it was really delightful to spend time with these two 7th-going-on-8th graders! In this post I mention Grant Snider and his fab new book Poetry Comics.

I am author of four books, including the graphic memoir, The Keeper, which Alison Bechdel (!) called “a triumph.” Inspired by my own shift toward visual storytelling, I co-edited (with Tom Hart) The Field Guide to Graphic Literature, which is about making all kinds of comics, graphic poetry, and literary collage.

UPCOMING EVENT: I’ll be at the Ohioana Book Festival in Columbus, Ohio this Saturday, April 20, 2024 from 10-5pm, and participating on a panel from 1:15-2:00 on Exploring Social Issues in Nonfiction (which may sound boring but it’s not!).

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