On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping acid, a sixteen-year-old curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom and begins to write. "Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boi[...]
From her first comics published in the Evergeen State College school paper to her influential weekly comic strip, "Ernie Pook's Comeek"; from her bestselling creative how-to memoir comic books, "What It Is "and "Picture This," to her novels, graphic memoirs, plays, and awards in between, Lynda Barry[...]
THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF TROUBLED ADOLESCENTS FROM BARRY'S ACCLAIMED COMIC
"The Freddie Stories" traces a year in the life of Freddie, the youngest member of the dysfunctional Mullen family. These four-panel entries--each representing an episode in the life of Freddie--bring to life adoles[...]
Award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work What It Is. She believes that anyone can be a writer and she has set out to prove it. For the past decade, Lynda has run a highly popular writing workshop for non-writers called Writing the Unthinkab[...]
Presented as a series of lined-notebook cartoon collages, a visual testament to the creator's life-long quest for creative excellence explores such questions as the capacity of material objects for summoning memories and the tangible qualities of images.[...]
The creative-drawing companion to the acclaimed and bestselling "What It Is
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Lynda Barry single-handedly created a literary genre all her own, the graphic memoir/how-to, otherwise known as the bestselling, the acclaimed, but most important, the adored and the inspirational "What It Is." The R[...]