Down the Street

by Lynda Barry

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Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Humor, Comix

123 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1988

About the author

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

She garnered attention with her 1988 illustrated novel The Good Times are Killing Me, about an interracial friendship between two young girls, which was adapted into a play. Her second illustrated novel, Cruddy, first appeared in 1999. Three years later she published One! Hundred! Demons!, a graphic novel she terms "autobifictionalography". What It Is (2008) is a graphic novel that is part memoir, part collage and part workbook, in which Barry instructs her readers in methods to open up their own creativity; it won the comics industry's 2009 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.[2]

Reviews

[Tristy]

Every time I re-read a Lynda Barry book, I see new things, have a deeper understanding of her brilliant writing and drawing techniques and I become a better person. She speaks directly to my soul and reminds me that there are people out there that can weave the hurt in with the funny to make the best, truth-telling art around.

[Mejix]

I've been aware of Lynda Barry's work for decades but this is only the first book of hers I read.
Down the Street is beautiful little book, unpretentious, and full poignant and hilarious anecdotes about growing up. All of the moments are very well written, very vivid. I feel there is room for more ambition, maybe in a different format. In any case this one is full of little gems.

[Rebecca Plaza]

Everything is genius that comes from Lynda Barry!

[Ciara]

i shouldn't be allowed to write review of comics & graphic novels. they just don't stick with me unless they are really amazing. all of lynda barry's stuff is pretty good, & i'll read it when i stumble across it (this is another one i borrowed from the anchor archive library in halifax). but they take like half an hour to get through (because my brain just isn't wired to appreciate visual art & linger over the artistry of drawings) & then i forget about them. what's this one about? i don't know. more marlys stuff, i assume. i actually like marlys's neurotic older sister better than i like marlys, but maybe i am biased because i am an oldest child myself.

[Rachel]

Lynda Barry is a master. Any writer can learn from her balance of humor, poetic moments, and creepy mysteriousness. This book and One Hundred Demons are more coherent than some of her other books because all the strips in them deal with the same group of kids. The drawings are grotesque, but after a few strips, the visual shock wears off and you can tell she's quite an artist.

[Mary]

I love Lynda Barry. Marlys, Arna and company's stories are full of humor and heartbreak. This small collection brought back a lot of memories of growing up in the 70's--making hand-shaped turkey drawings, embarrassing homemade school lunches, book reports, and insect diaramas. Love Lynda Barry!

[Jenny]

I love Lynda Barry. Reading this book was like revisiting some of the best parts of my childhood in the 80s. That feeling is made even more significant and bittersweet by the fact that that world and way of growing up has largely vanished.

[Becka]

over & over again

[Marta]

I first encountered Lynda Barry when I read "Cruddy" as a teen. At first, her Marlys comics did not speak to me but over time I've come to really love and relate to these characters.

[Shana]

Amazing beautiful perfect. Love love Lynda Barry and Marlys.

[Diane Fraser]

beautiful, tender, sweet.