Nothing to Say: Revised Original Landscape Format

Nothing to Say: Revised Original Landscape FormatIn her first published book of self referential comics, Ratna Pappert interweaves fairy tale and mythical imagery with her own cast of characters to explore issues of relationship, of self worth, the challenges of parenting an inner child who only speaks in four letter words, of finding one's way through creative inertia, and the perennial question facing any working (or not working) artist: "Do I really have anything to say?" Combining an insatiable

In her first published book of self-referential comics, Ratna Pappert interweaves fairy-tale and mythical imagery with her own cast of characters to explore issues of relationship, of self-worth, the challenges of parenting an inner child who only speaks in four-letter words, of finding one's way through creative inertia, and the perennial question facing any working (or not-working) artist: "Do I really have anything to say?"

Combining an insatiable curiosity to understand herself as a creative person; a wry, whimsical use of visual metaphor and a small army of word-balloons, her observations become ever more universal as they explore a search for balance between authentic personal expression and a hunger to be recognized and acknowledged by a larger world.

What starts out as a personal search for validation emerges as a love-letter to a world of creative human beings who each have Something to Say.