Author: Lori Gottlieb Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0684863588 Category : Anorexia nervosa Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
From the diaries she kept as an 11-year-old, the author's wry, perceptive account of her near-fatal struggle with anorexia nervosa is told with an unguarded openness not seen since Susanna Kaysen's "Girl Interrupted. Stick Figure" has been option for film by Martin Scorsese's De Fina/Cappa Productions.
Author: Amber Tozer Publisher: Running Press Adult ISBN: 0762459743 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
Sober Stick Figure is a memoir from stand-up comedian Amber Tozer, chronicling her life as an alcoholic and her eventual recovery -- starting with her first drink at the age of seven -- all told with the help of childlike stick figures. Amber writes and illustrates the crazy and harsh truths of being raised by alcoholics, becoming one herself, stagnating in denial for years, and finally getting sober. As a teenager, Amber is an overachieving student athlete who copes with her family's alcoholic tragedies by focusing on her achievements. It quickly takes a funny and dark turn when she starts to experiment with booze and ignores the warning signs of alcoholism. Through blackouts, cringe-worthy embarrassments, and pounding hangovers, she convinces herself that she "just likes to party." She leaves her hometown of Pueblo, Colorado to follow her dreams, and ends up in New York City, spending lots of time binge drinking, passing out on trains, and telling jokes on stage. She then moves to Los Angeles, thinking sunshine and show business will save her. Eventually hitting rock bottom, she has a moment of clarity, and knows she has to stop drinking. It's now been seven years since that last drink, and she's ready to tell her story. Sober Stick Figure is adventurous, hilarious, sad, sweet, tragic -- and ultimately inspiring.
Author: Lucie Bernier Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1644115220 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
• Explains the 7 simple steps of the Little Stick Figures Technique and how to achieve maximum results and lasting changes • Provides more than 150 examples of successful uses of this method, including how to improve relationships, how to attract your soulmate and abundance, how to resolve problems at work, and how to detach from a toxic situation • Details a general cleansing and rebalancing protocol for your conscious and unconscious programming ARE YOU LOOKING TO DETACH from an unhealthy situation or a person in your life and regain inner freedom with unconditional love? This easy energetic cord-cutting tool serves to free yourself from dependencies, fears, and your conscious and unconscious attachments. Created by therapist Jacques Martel in 1993, the Little Stick Figures Technique moves beyond mere visualization to a physical practice, easily applied in 7 steps. It draws its effectiveness from the power of the conscious as well as the subconscious, helping you to set intentions for truly lasting change and letting go. More than 150 examples show how to successfully apply this method, whether you want to improve relationships with a partner or an ex-partner, disengage from family entanglements, attract your soulmate and abundance, resolve problems at work, or detach from a toxic situation and start the process of emotional self-healing. This regular cleansing and rebalancing protocol for your conscious and unconscious inner programs helps harmonize your relationships and supports you to be more centered, calm, and in control of your life.
Author: Steve Mockus Publisher: Chronicle Books ISBN: 1452119309 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 145
Book Description
Follow Stick Man through a disastrous day in this hilarious adventure inspired by real signs. Stick Man is that guy you see around town but don’t really know very well. Everywhere you go, there he is, crossing the street, waiting for the bus, issuing warnings about potential disasters at sea and on land, at the mall and at work. But when he’s not offering advice, what does a day in the life of Stick Man actually look like? This catastrophe-packed book uses images derived from real signs to follow a continuous narrative as Stick Man navigates the perils of a single, hilariously bad day. Everyone has had that day that just keeps getting worse, but Stick Man’s adventures show readers both what a bad day really looks like, and that in the end it’s never really quite as bad as it may seem. It’s the perfect pick-me-up for when life, or a forklift, knocks you down.
Author: Publisher: Spartan Holiday Books ISBN: 9780990808589 Category : Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
From an accomplished practitioner, curator and theorist comes Stick Figures: Drawing as a Human Practice to reset the terms for an ancient activity. D.B. Dowd embraces drawing as a process for everyone, not just artists. This beautifully designed book uses a wonderful range of visual samples to explore an elemental human capacity. The artifacts of drawing (chiefly, illustrations and cartoons) are rescued from outdated hierarchies of taste and engaged on their own theoretical and cultural terms.-Pithy, companionable and funny, Stick Figures will change the discussion about drawing, illustration, cartooning, design and printmaking.-Taxonomically clear, technologically specific and free of art-speak for general readers and humanists who work with published images.-Thoughtful, critical and precise about the damage done by fetishized aesthetics; provides new tools for engaging popular visual production in the modern era.
Author: Don Hertzfeldt Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1984855352 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
From the imagination of legendary animator and two-time Oscar nominee Don Hertzfeldt comes a hilarious fever-dream vision of the apocalypse, now available in wide release for the first time since the rare original edition sold out. Created during sleepless nights while he worked on his animated films, The End of the World was illustrated entirely on Post-It notes over the course of several years, slowly taking shape from all the deleted scenes, bad dreams, and abandoned ideas that were too strange to make it to the big screen, including essential early material that was later developed into the animated classic World of Tomorrow. Hertzfeldt's visually striking work transcends its unusual nature and taps into the deeply human, universal themes of mortality, identity, memory, loss, and parenthood . . . with the occasional monstrous biting eel descending from the sky.
Author: Christopher Ford Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101578696 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
When Zozimos is banished by an evil witch (his stepmother!) from the kingdom of Sticatha-the kingdom he was next in line to rule-he trains at battle (if you call chasing after butterflies training), travels across stormy seas (thanks for that, Poseidon), slays golems and monsters (with a lot of help), charms beautiful women (not really), and somehow (despite his own ineptitude) survives quest after quest. By the love of Zeus, though, none of it brings him any closer to home! It does, however, make for one quirky, original, giggle-provoking graphic novel sure to appeal to any kid interested in Greek mythology, or merely looking for an entertaining read.
Author: Pam Arlund Publisher: William Carey Publishing ISBN: 164508342X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 179
Book Description
Drawing Simply to Share Jesus Well Have you ever tried to share your faith but struggled, not really knowing what to say? This book helps solve that problem. Practical and funny, Pam Arlund offers a refreshing change from standard methods in disciplemaking. In Stick Figures Save the World, you will learn to draw Bible stories in a simple way to equip even the newest follower of Jesus to pass on what they have learned to another. This method works when drawn in the dirt of a remote village or on a napkin in a coffeehouse. Whether you are trying to reach your own children, the neighbors, or a person across the world, this book can show you how. The surprising two-fold outcome of this method is how exciting Scripture will become and how well prepared you will be to share Jesus with others. Stick figures aren’t just for kids, they are for everyone who wants to make the most of the opportunities the Lord gives to authentically share His love with the world.