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Best known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pookâs Comeek, illustrated fiction (Cruddy, The Good Times Are Killing Me), and graphic novels (One! Hundred! Demons!), the art of Lynda Barry (b. 1956) has branched out to incorporate plays, paintings, radio commentary, and lectures. With a combination of simple, raw drawings and mature, eloquent text, Barryâs oeuvre blurs the boundaries between fiction and memoir, comics and literary fiction, and fantasy and reality. Her recent volumes What It Is (2008) and Picture This (2010) fuse autobiography, teaching guide, sketchbook, and cartooning into coherent visions.
In Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass, author Susan E. Kirtley examines the artistâs career and contributions to the field of comic art and beyond. The study specifically concentrates on Barryâs recurring focus on figures of young girls, in a variety of mediums and genres. Barry follows the image of the girl through several lensesâfrom text-based novels to the hybrid blending of text and image in comic art, to art shows and coloring books. In tracing Barryâs aesthetic and intellectual development, Kirtley reveals Barryâs work to be groundbreaking in its understanding of femininity and feminism.About: Best known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pookâs Comeek, illustrated fiction (Cruddy, The Good Times Are Killing Me), and graphic novels (One!
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