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Lynda Barry

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Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.


— Lynda Barry


#divisions #easiest #race #stupid #very

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?


— Lynda Barry


#bed #breathing #feel #how #kid

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.


— Lynda Barry


#i #i think #person #planet #sometimes

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.


— Lynda Barry


#art #books #hid #hour #i

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.


— Lynda Barry


#effortless #emotionally #i #i am #nearly

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.


— Lynda Barry


#beautiful #beginning #consequences #did #ends

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.


— Lynda Barry


#down #like #love #missile #our time

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.


— Lynda Barry


#guided #i #i do #out #question

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.


— Lynda Barry


#depressed #eavesdrop #every #go #humor

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.


— Lynda Barry


#fool #helping #how #humor #realize






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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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