All she wants to do is finish her dance:
Doodles by the great Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry is of course a cartoonist, and as such, her basic tools are pen and paper. There's a brilliance about the way in which she uses drawing to convey humor -- from the willowy legs of the dancer to the motion lines and stars throughout. There are 40 examples of this on the page, and all of theme, either taken as a continuous narrative or viewed individually, are hilarious.
Lynda Barry is really one of the great ones. I was recently reading an interview of hers where she discusses why adults don't draw, and I thought it was really wonderful - here's the quote: http://fimpress.blogspot.com/2011/11/lynda-barry-thinks-about-why-adults.html
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