On page 43 in What It Is, Lynda Barry asks the question “What is a story made of?” and the way the page was laid out along with the images she used could be seen as a form of formstorming. The book Graphic Design: The New Basics by Jennifer Cole Phillips describes formstoming as making visual examples to gain a deeper meaning or understanding of a subject. I believe that the illustration given above is a great example of the formstorming collage process because it shows many ideas that make a story, a passage taken from a book or drawings or photographs for example are seen on this page which can both be seen as important elements in a story. Formstorming is very beneficial when trying to communicate an idea or understand it better as seen in the example, while most people would believe that a story is made solely from the linguistic aspect of communication, the collage showed that a story could have many other modes of communication like visual or spatial which are both seen in this picture.

Pg 43 of “What It Is” by Lynda Barry