7/7/2023 0 Comments 100 demons graphic novelBarry used it to make strips that organise and categorize the ‘demons’ of her early life: the objects, places and situations that defined her childhood and teenage years. One! Hundred! Demons! is a book structured around a Japanese painting exercise using hand-ground inks and brushes. She has also written three novels, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! and The Good Times are Killing Me which was adapted into an off-Broadway play and won the Washington State Governor’s Award. Her newspaper strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek featuring the incomparable Marlys and Freddy was syndicated across North America in alternative weeklies for two decades. There are very few comics creators with the ability to evoke total empathy and then use that identification with a character to wring your heart out like Lynda Barry.
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