The Adventures of You!: How to Write, Draw, and Star in Your Own Comics

For storytellers and artists of all levels (no experience necessary!), here is a colorful, interactive how-to book that teaches kids to express themselves through comics.

Hey! Are you an artist? Writer? Creator? All of the above? None of the above? Grab a pencil and this book to begin expressing your life in comics! This interactive guide is chockfull of fun exercises, insightful lessons, and plenty of practice space. Draw and write your own characters! Create funky panel shapes! Fill in the speech bubbles! Follow fun prompts to doodle, draw, and design! No writing or drawing experience is necessary--all it takes is YOU (plus a pencil or pen) to turn your ideas into visual stories, starring you!

Praise for comic artist, speaker, mental health coach, and New York Times bestselling author Ellen Forney:

• "Ellen Forney's greatest strength as a cartoonist is her gift for explanation--getting information across with vigor, wit, and visual inventiveness." -New York Times
• "Forney has a virtuosic understanding of what words and images can do in congress, playing them off one another in ways that allow her pages to be more than the sum of their parts." -NPR
• "Brilliant" -Entertainment Weekly

Author: Ellen Forney
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Workman Kids
Published: 08/12/2025
Pages: 176
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 10.80h x 8.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781523510306

About the Author

Ellen Forney is an author, artist, speaker, and mental health coach. Her work includes the New York Times bestselling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me, the story of her diagnosis and struggle with bipolar disorder, and its companion book, Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life, a mental health guide and the basis for her coaching. Ellen's work has been published and reviewed in a variety of media, including Washington Post, New York Times, Psychology Today, NPR, and LA Times, among others. She was awarded fellowships from MacDowell, Artist Trust, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Civitella Ranieri. Ellen grew up in Philadelphia and lives in Seattle.