Lynda barry biography
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Lynda Barry
American cartoonist (born )
Linda Jean Barry (born January 2, ), known professionally as Lynda Barry, is an American cartoonist. Barry is best known for her weekly comic stripErnie Pook's Comeek. She garnered attention with her 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 Three years later she published One! Hundred! Demons!, a graphic novel she terms "autobifictionalography". What It Is () 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 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.[2]
In recognition of her contributions to the comic art form, ComicsAlliance listed Barry as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition,[3] and s
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About
LYNDA BARRY
Born on Hiway 14 in Richland Center, Wisconsin, daughter of an Irish/ Norwegian/ meat-cutter and an Irish/Filipina immigrant employed as a hospital housekeeper, Lynda Barry attended The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington) during its early experimental period (). She studied under painter and writing teacher Marilyn Frasca for two years, trying to answer this one question: What is an Image? This question has guided Barry’s work ever since.
In while pursuing a career as a painter, Barry began drawing a weekly comic strip which incorporated stories considered to be incompatible with comics at the time: stories, as Barry puts it, “that had a lot of trouble in them.” Widely credited with expanding the literary, thematic and emotional range of American comics, Barry’s ground-breaking weekly strip ran for 30 years.
In a career spanning nearly 35 years, Barry has authored 17 books, worked as a commentator for NPR, had a regular mon
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The Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College was pleased to welcome the cartoonist and novelist Lynda Barry as the Fall Visiting Author. On Wednesday September 25, at p.m., Barry read and discussed her multimedia work with the aid of photos, videos, cartoons, and text. Then she fielded questions and signed books in the Hyman Forum within Goucher&#;s Athenaeum to a packad house of rapt attendees. The event was free and open to the public. On Monday and Tuesday September 23 and 24, , Lynda Barry taught two free mästare classes on each day from p,m. to p.m. in the Heubeck Multipurpose Room at Goucher College to a broad cross section of students, faculty, and community writers and artists. Of her writing workshops, the New York Times notes that, &#;Lynda Barry will make you believe in yourself.&#;Enrollment in Lynda Barry&#;s Monday & Tuesday mästare classes fryst vatten now closed.
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