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What It Is»rank: 2520by: Lynda Barry
: :“Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+” —Salon How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry’s compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or to remember. Composed of completely new material, each page of Barry’s first Drawn & Quarterly book is a full-color collage that is not only a ... |
The Best American Comics 2008 (The Best American Series)»rank: 3438from: Houghton Mifflin
: :This newest addition to the Best American Series returns with a set of bothestablished and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Lynda Barry andbrand-new series editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, acclaimed cartoonists in their own right, culled the best stories from graphic novels,pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the web tocreate this cutting-edge collection, 'perfect for newbies as well as fans'(San Diego Union-Tribune). This volume features such luminaries asChris Ware, Seth, and Alison Bechdel alongside beloved daily cartoonistslike Matt Groening. |
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One Hundred Demons»rank: 25262by: Lynda Barry
: :One Hundred Demons collects a series of memoiristic strips that appeared in Salon’s popular “Mothers Who Think” section. Here are 20 stories told in Lynda Barry’s distinctive cartoon-narrative style that delve into the funk and sweetness of love, family, adolescence, race and the 'hood, identity — all the forces that made her the 'wreck' she is today. Barry distinguishes these stories with her pitch-perfect sense of the way young people talk and think and her ability to casually render childhood’s cruelties in luminous, unsparing detail. From her nattering and intolerant/loving Filipina grandmother to the ex-boyfriend from hell who had lice, One Hundred Demons paints a memorable picture of a gifted girl whose ... |
CRUDDY: An Illustrated Novel»rank: 53883by: Lynda Barry
: : 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 boiling desert, covered with blood. The girl is Roberta Rohbeson, and her rant against a world bounded by 'the cruddy top bedroom of a cruddy rental house on a very cruddy mud road' soon becomes a detailed account of another story, one that she has kept silent since she was eleven. Darkly funny and resonant with humanity, Cruddy, ... |
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The Good Times Are Killing Me»rank: 92578by: Lynda Barry
: : Nationally syndicated cartoonist Lynda Barry's moving, quirky, and honest first novel about a young girl's coming of age-which has also been a hit off-Broadway play-is back in print, with new artwork by the author. Review:Readers of alternative weeklies will be familiar with Lynda Barry's work from her long-running comic strip, Ernie Pook's Comeek. Similarly, The Good Times Are Killing Me focuses on the surprisingly complex emotional world of children. It is the story of a neighborhood going through the throes of integration and white flight as seen through the eyes of young Edna Arkins. Edna forms an unlikely friendship with Bonna Willis, a girl with a talent for 'ass beating.' ... |
The Greatest of Marlys»rank: 28544by: Lynda Barry
: :Lynda Barry had a bona fide hit with Cruddy, and her fans are now calling for her older comic strips, all out of print. This book answers the call as it delivers the life and times of Marlys Mullen, the most beloved character in Barrys nationally syndicated comic strip, 'Ernie Pooks Comeek.' Shes back! This is a Lynda Barry double-tall: the long-awaited collection of the best strips from her syndicated comics. Way back in the mid-1980s, comic illustrator and writer Lynda Barry introduced the character of Marlys Mullen, her crazy groovy teenage sister Maybonne, her sensitive and strange little brother Freddie, a mother like no other, and an array of cousins and ... |
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The Freddie Stories: With the Great Marlys! and Sister Maybonne»rank: 379910by: Lynda Barry
: : Here is the first new collection of Lynda Barry's nationally syndicated cartoons in three years. The Freddie Stories, featuring sisters Marlys and Maybonne and their spunky little brother Freddie, continues Barry's brilliant, raw, and original exploration of youth, coming of age, friendship, attitude, and being in the world. Review:The Freddie Stories is a collection of strips from Lynda Barry's weekly cartoon, Ernie Pook's Comeek. As the title suggests, all the strips feature Freddie, a gentle misfit and self-described 'fag' who goes through a wrenching year. Though Barry's drawing style is whimsical and her protagonists are kids, this is definitely not a book for young children. The haunting--and sometimes downright disturbing--stories ... |
The Fun House»rank: 318510by: Lynda Barry
: : Here is the first new collection of Lynda Barry's nationally syndicated cartoons in three years. The Freddie Stories, featuring sisters Marlys and Maybonne and their spunky little brother Freddie, continues Barry's brilliant, raw, and original exploration of youth, coming of age, friendship, attitude, and being in the world. Review:The Freddie Stories is a collection of strips from Lynda Barry's weekly cartoon, Ernie Pook's Comeek. As the title suggests, all the strips feature Freddie, a gentle misfit and self-described 'fag' who goes through a wrenching year. Though Barry's drawing style is whimsical and her protagonists are kids, this is definitely not a book for young children. The haunting--and sometimes downright disturbing--stories ... |
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My Perfect Life»rank: 328682by: Lynda Barry
: : Here is the first new collection of Lynda Barry's nationally syndicated cartoons in three years. The Freddie Stories, featuring sisters Marlys and Maybonne and their spunky little brother Freddie, continues Barry's brilliant, raw, and original exploration of youth, coming of age, friendship, attitude, and being in the world. Review:The Freddie Stories is a collection of strips from Lynda Barry's weekly cartoon, Ernie Pook's Comeek. As the title suggests, all the strips feature Freddie, a gentle misfit and self-described 'fag' who goes through a wrenching year. Though Barry's drawing style is whimsical and her protagonists are kids, this is definitely not a book for young children. The haunting--and sometimes downright disturbing--stories ... |
Nearsighted Monkey»rank: 611074by: Lynda Barry
: :A Drawn & Quarterly Petit Livre by the cartoonist of What It IsThis endearing myopic monkey inhabits an everyday world, but one not without a supernatural charm; she is just as likely to appear at your doorway with a freshly baked pie as with her elephant-eared imaginary friend. Nearsighted Monkey collects a series of portraits in which the pleasant primate goes about her daily life—smoking while hogging the remote, making pancakes, waiting for the bus—alternately bundled up for her travels or lounging in slippers and a housecoat. She might drink all of your wine, or the last of the coffee, but all is forgiven upon her presentation of a perfect grilled cheese ... |