Lynda Barry

• Oct-1991
• / General Fiction
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Lynda Barry’s classic heartbreaking and heartwarming coming of age novella back in print Young Edna Arkins lives in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing, thanks to white flight from urban Seattle in the late 1960s. As the world changes around he...

• Oct-2000
• / General Fiction
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On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping two of the 127 hits of acid found in a friend's shoe, a sixteen-year-old who is grounded for a year curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom, picks up a pen, and begins to ...

• May-2008
• / Graphic Novel
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Lynda Barry’s bestselling treatise on creativity, What It Is, is now available in paperbackHow do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? What is an image? What is the past? For decades, these questions have permeated the pages ...

• Oct-2010
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• Oct-2011
• / Graphic Novel
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"One of the world’s greatest cartoonists." -- Laura Miller, Salon From her first comics published in the Evergeen State College school paper to her influential weekly comic strip, Ernie Pook's Comeek; from her bestselling creative how-to memoir c...

• Jan-2013
• / Literary
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THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF TROUBLED ADOLESCENTS FROM BARRY'S ACCLAIMED COMIC

The Freddie Stories traces a year in the life of Freddie, the youngest member of the dysfunctional Mullen family. These four-panel entries―each representing a...

• Oct-2014
• / Graphic Novel
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Writing exercises and creativity advice from Barry's pioneering, life-changing workshop The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work What It Is. She believes that anyone can be a writer and...

• Dec-2014
• / Graphic Novel
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Writing exercises and creativity advice from Barry''s pioneering, life-changing workshopThe award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work What It Is. She believes that anyone can be a writer a...

• Aug-2016
• / Graphic Novel
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Welcome to the world of Marlys and Maybonne "Lynda Barry's comics were my YA, before YA really even existed. She's been writing teen stories with an incredibly clear voice since the early 80s. [The Greatest Of Marlys] is raw, ugly, hilarious, and po...

• Apr-2017
• / General Fiction
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"You'll wonder how anything can be so sad and so funny at the same time." -- Lev Grossman, Time Inspired by a sixteenth-century Zen monk’s painting of a hundred demons chasing each other across a long scroll, acclaimed cartoonist Lynda Barry confr...

• Sep-2019
• / General Fiction
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The idiosyncratic curriculum from the Professor of Interdisciplinary Creativity will teach you how to draw and write your story

Hello students, meet Professor Skeletor. Be on time, don’t miss class, and turn off your phones. No time for i...

• Feb-2022
• / Graphic Novel
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The classic book featuring Maybonne Mullen and her little sister Marlys is back in print! Lynda Barry captures all the glorious magic and excrutiating pain of junior high school in this Ernie Pook Comeek collection from the early 90s. The star of th...

• Apr-2022
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• Jun-2022
• / Graphic Novel
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Maybonne and Marlys Mullen endure the mortifying highs and lows of middle school in this Lynda Barry classic. Collected from the strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek, which was serialized in alternative weeklies across the continent, My Perfect Life captures...

• Sep-2022
• / Graphic Novel
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“Lynda Barry’s Ernie Pook’s Comeek… made the world look wild, ugly, joyful, and mysterious.” -- The New Yorker Maybonne Mullen is “riding on a bummer” according to her little sister, Marlys. As much as teenage Maybonne prays and tries...