The Wizard of Op

I grew up with Ed Emberley books where he taught kids how to draw using simple shapes and lines. The instructional steps could be considered comics, but they were all relatively short. To my knowledge, even the most complex ones were no more than a single page. What I only learned of recently, though, was that Emberley actually wrote a bona fide graphic novel in 1975! It features his familiar style of art, but with panels and word balloons and all the aesthetics that you would normally associate with a graphic novel. Plus, it's got some trippy optical illusions! I have no idea how my dad missed this back in the day!

Anyway, here's The Wizard of Op (now long out of print)...

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