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Lynda Barry

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I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.


— Lynda Barry


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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.


— Lynda Barry


#i #laughed #loud

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?


— Lynda Barry


#awfulness #bother #gotten #hate #i

In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.


— Lynda Barry


#get #happening #joke #just #life

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.


— Lynda Barry


#exploding #love #love is #smoke #willingly

Love will make a way out of no way.


— Lynda Barry


#make #out #way #will

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.


— Lynda Barry


#comedy #goal #list #movie #romantic

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.


— Lynda Barry


#college #go #holding #i #may

Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.


— Lynda Barry


#distract #enjoy #horror #horror movie #me

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.


— Lynda Barry


#i #into #life #me #my life






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Did you know about Lynda Barry?

They met each other while Lynda Barry was an artist-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation and he was land manager of the Lake Forest Open Lands project in Lake Forest Illinois. She garnered attention with her 1988 illustrated novel The Good Times are Killing Me about an interracial friendship between two young girls which was made into a play. At The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington Barry met fellow cartoonist Matt Groening.

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. Her second illustrated novel Cruddy appeared in 1999.

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