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Es war einmal, zu einer dreckigen Zeit, an einer Dreckigen Straße, am Fuß eines dreckigen Hügels, im dreckigsten Teil einer verdreckten Stadt, in einem dreckigen Staat, Land, Erdkreis, Sonnensystem, Universum. So beginnt die 16-jährige Roberta Rohbeson in einer Septembernacht 1971 mit der Erzählung ihres Lebens. Jetzt wird endlich die Wahrheit über den mysteriösen Tag vor langer Zeit ans Licht gebracht, als die Behörden ein Kind fanden, das...

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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 the moment when Lynda Barry finds the perfect balance in longer-form storytelling between the bellyaching laughs and the brutal reality checks. Along with the 2022 release Come Over Come Over, this co...

Lynda Barry's Ernie Pook's Comeek... made the world look wild, ugly, joyful, and mysterious."?-The New YorkerMaybonne Mullen is "riding on a bummer" according to her little sister Marlys. As much as teenage Maybonne prays and tries she just can't connect to the magic of living. How can she when there's so much upheaval at home and school, not to mention the world at large? And yet Marlys always seems able to tap into it. In It's So Magic, the ...

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 this collection is 14 year old Maybonne who relays the angst and insecurity of life through hand scrawled diary entries, class assignments, and letters, in cursive with doodle and bubble letters. Of co...

Nearsighted Monkey" collects a series of portraits in which the pleasant primate goes about her daily life--smoking while hogging the remote, making pancakes, waiting for the bus--alternately bundled up for her travels or lounging in slippers and a housecoat.

Writing exercises and creativity advice from Lynda Barry's pioneering, life-changing workshop.

For more than five years the cartoonist Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically encouraged.

On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping acid, a sixteen-year-old curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom and begins to write.Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boiling desert, covered with blood.The girl is Roberta Rohbeson, and her rant against a world bounded by "the cruddy top bedroom of a cruddy rental house...

Lynda Barry is known and loved for her freaky and beautiful cartoons. "The Freddie Stories", featuring sisters Marlys and Maybonne and their spunky little brother Freddie, continues Barry's brilliant, raw, and original exploration of youth, coming of age, friendship, attitude and being in the world.

Reflective of the early 1980s before the appearance of Barry's well-known characters Marlys and Arna, the comics in "Everything, Vol. 1" cover the more adult subjects of bad love, bad perms, being single, Prince, and miserable break-ups--resulting in one of the most oft-quoted Barry sayings: Love is an exploding cigar which we all willingly smoke. 176 pp. 20, 000 print.

Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+" -SalonHow do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry's compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is demonstrates a trie...

Eight-year-old Marlys Mullen is Lynda Barry's most famous character from her long-running and landmark comic strip Er-nie Pook's Comeek and, given her very own collection of strips, Marlys shines in all her freckled and pig-tailed groovy glory.

First published in 1988, Barry's classic heartbreaking--and heartwarming--coming-of-age novella is back in print with a new cover and the color illustrations from the first edition.

Appealing to adults and children, acclaimed cartoonist Lynda Barry confronts various demons from her life in 17 full-colour vignettes.