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Simpsons Storyboard Artist Liz Climo Signed Book Deal at Running Press

June 14, 2017

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Simpsons Storyboard Artist Liz Climo Signed Book Deal at Running Press

Liz Climo makes some of the more adorable comic strips that you can find anywhere on the Internet. That’s on top of being a long time storyboard artist for The Simpsons.

Now, she’ll get to publish Best ~~Year~~ Bear Ever: A Year in the Little World of Liz that’s set to come out in fall 2018 from Running Press.

You can go down a rabbit hole looking at all her nifty past work on her Tumblr and Instagram until then.

Amber Tozer Tells the Story of Her Recovery from Alcoholism via Stick Figures in “Sober Stick Figure”

June 11, 2016

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The illustration of humans via stick figures is subtly powerful. It’s something kids resort to as many of them can’t draw that well, but it still communicates messages and points of a view in a way that almost seems universal.

Comedian/writer/ Amber Tozer utliizes this to a wonderful degree in her memoir Sober Stick Figure that chronicles her harrowing road into alcoholism and eventually to recovery. The bleakness of such a journey gets juxtaposed next to stick figure drawings throughout the whole book that delightfully illustrate how ridiculous all of these very true events really are. It’s the comic relief that keeps on giving .

Sober Stick Figure is available in hardcover now from Running Press.