Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry was born in 1956, Lynda Barry has written at least 31 books. Their most popular book is What It Is with 40 saves with an average rating of 4.13⭐.
Author Bio
Linda Jean Barry, known professionally as Lynda Barry, is an American cartoonist. Barry is best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. She garnered attention with her 1988 illustrated novel The Good Times are Killing Me, which was adapted into a play. Her second illustrated novel, Cruddy, first appeared in 1999. Three years later she published One! Hundred! Demons!, a graphic novel she terms "autobifictionalography". 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.
In recognition of her contributions to the comic art form, ComicsAlliance listed Barry as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition, and she received the Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. In July 2016, she was inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame. Barry was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship as part of the Class of 2019.[6] She is currently an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Creativity at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
In 2020, her work was included in the exhibit Women in Comics: Looking Forward, Looking Back at the Society of Illustrators in New York City.
2008 • 40 Readers • 210 pages • 4.1
2002 • 38 Readers • 224 pages • 4.4
2014 • 31 Readers • 200 pages • 4.6
1999 • 23 Readers • 305 pages • 4.6
2019 • 17 Readers • 200 pages • 4.6
#13 of 24 in Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
2004 • 11 Readers • 368 pages • 5
1999 • 10 Readers • 128 pages • 4.5
#1 of 12 in The Best American Comics
2006 • 8 Readers • 293 pages • 3
#11 of 12 in The Best American Comics
2016 • 7 Readers • 400 pages • 3.3
#2 of 12 in The Best American Comics
2007 • 5 Readers • 341 pages • 4
2009 • 5 Readers • 229 pages • 4.3
4 Readers • 5
1990 • 3 Readers • 127 pages • 5
1994 • 3 Readers • 5
1988 • 3 Readers • 139 pages
1995 • 3 Readers • 384 pages
2 Readers • 4.5
#3 of 12 in The Best American Comics
2008 • 2 Readers • 352 pages • 4
2 Readers • 5
2002 • 2 Readers • 224 pages • 5
1981 • 2 Readers • 5
1988 • 1 Reader • 5
#2 of 2 in The Best Comics of the Decade
1990 • 1 Reader • 124 pages
1 Reader • 5
15 Mutts
2019 • 1 Reader • 240 pages • 5
1993 • 1 Reader • 5
2016 • 1 Reader • 184 pages
1983 • 1 Reader • 5
2021 • 256 pages
1999 • 320 pages