Skip To The Fun Parts

I made my living off of being creative.

I am/was a cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer, writer, commercial artist and teacher of art, etc.

Creativity is not for cowards. It’s not easy. It can be both a gift and a curse. Many times I caught myself looking at a blank page and wondering, “Now what?”

It’s not like a magic fairy arrives, clobbers you with her wand and “presto!” magically ideas and inspiration come gushing out. If only.

In author/cartoonist Dana Jeri Maier’s new book: Skip To The Fun Parts, published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, she includes cartoons and complaints about the creative process.

She nails it! The book is hilarious and insightful.

She writes about the dreaded creative block, deadlines, starts and restarts and everything else associated with the creative process.

She offers advice on how to get started, steps necessary to light the creative flame and how to channel your inner child, seek and find inspiration, do research and so much more.

It’s funny, poignant and hits home to anyone who struggles with creativity. 

"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will." — Romans 12:2