Lynda Barry





Lynda Barry

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in Richland Center, WI, The United States
January 02, 1956

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Lynda Barry is an American cartoonist and author, perhaps best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek.


Average rating: 4.21 · 14,149 ratings · 1,564 reviews · 27 distinct works · Similar authors
Cruddy
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 3,444 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions
One Hundred Demons
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 3,241 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
What It Is
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 2,213 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
The Greatest of Marlys
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 771 ratings — published 2000
The Good Times are Killing Me
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 663 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions
The Best American Comics 2008
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 638 ratings — published 2008
The Freddie Stories
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 487 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
Picture This: The Near-sigh...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 406 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
Come Over, Come Over
4.49 of 5 stars 4.49 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 1990
The Fun House
4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 280 ratings — 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

“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”
Lynda Barry

“No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.”
Lynda Barry, Cruddy

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