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Lynda Barry
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Lynda Barry is an American cartoonist and professor whose work combines comics, memoir and creative guidance to explore imagination, memory and artistic practice.
Biography
Lynda Barry, born Linda Jean Barry in 1956, is an American cartoonist best known for her weekly strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. Her illustrated books include The Good Times are Killing Me, which was adapted into a play, and Cruddy. She describes her graphic novel One! Hundred! Demons! as “autobifictionalography.”
Barry's work also addresses the creative process. What It Is combines memoir, collage and workbook elements to guide readers in developing their creativity. She is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Creativity at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her recognition includes the 2013 Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award, induction into the Eisner Hall of Fame in 2016 and a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship.
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Books by Lynda Barry
What It Is
What It Is (2008) combines memoir, drawings, comics, collage and workbook exercises to explore memory, imagination and methods for opening up creativity. It received the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.