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Lynda Barry
Author profile
born
in Richland Center, WI, The United States
January 02, 1956
gender
female
website
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Cruddy
— published 1999 — 10 editions |
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One Hundred Demons
— published 2002 — 3 editions |
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What It Is
— published 2008 — 2 editions |
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The Greatest of Marlys
— published 2000 |
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The Good Times are Killing Me
— published 1988 — 6 editions |
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The Best American Comics 2008
by Lynda Barry , Matt Madden , Jessica Abel — published 2008 |
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The Freddie Stories
— published 1999 — 3 editions |
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Picture This: The Near-sighted Monkey Book
— published 2009 — 2 editions |
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Come Over, Come Over
— published 1990 |
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The Fun House
— published 1988 |
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“There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get a fairytale, a kind of story with hopelessness in it.
I believe there is something in these old stories that does what singing does to words. They have transformational capabilities, in the way melody can transform mood.
They can't transform your actual situation, but they can transform your experience of it. We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.”
― Lynda Barry, What It Is
I believe there is something in these old stories that does what singing does to words. They have transformational capabilities, in the way melody can transform mood.
They can't transform your actual situation, but they can transform your experience of it. We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.”
― Lynda Barry, What It Is
“No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.”
― Lynda Barry, Cruddy
― Lynda Barry, Cruddy
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