Comments on: Lynda Barry

By: Katie Moody

Katie Moody — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:44:17 +0000

Barry blows my mind. It’s nice to see her get wider recognition!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:16:09 +0000

Lynda Barry gets mentioned in the movie The Savages, which also features Chris Ware promo art.

By: Kerry Maxwell

Kerry Maxwell — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:29:00 +0000

“Why Have There Been No Great Women Comic-Book Artists?” besides Marie Severin? Thanks for the Lynda Barry link.

By: Ian Boothby

Ian Boothby — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:42:27 +0000

Her new book is amazing.

By: Ralph Mathieu

Ralph Mathieu — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:02:18 +0000

Lynda Barry’s new book What It Is is FANTASTIC – just stating the obvious, but it bears repeating!

By: Christopher Butcher

Christopher Butcher — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:11:22 +0000

This interview really is spectacular, and worth reading from start to finish. Barry’s work is something I’ve grown to really appreciate and enjoy, and this offers spectacular insight into her career and world-view, good stuff.

By: BradyDale

BradyDale — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:56:14 +0000

He just said he had made choices, and that the arguments over the choices would be as valuable as the choices.

This is a pretty Zen way to look at something like this, and I can’t really disagree.

That said, seeing Lynda Barry at the Free Library was one of the best things I’ve done in a long, long time. In terms of speaking events that have rocked my world, she stands alongside Governor Jerry Brown and Kurt Vonnegut and Ira Glass for most memorable public lectures. Definitely. And I go to a lot of these freaking things.

She might very well have been the best I’ve ever seen.

No, Vonnegut was the best, but she might be a tight second.