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from Auction House Records.
Burlesque dancer after the show
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Lynda Barry (born January 2, 1956) is an American cartoonist and author. A non-mainstream American cartoonists,Barry is perhaps best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. Barry's cartoons often view family life from the perspective of pre-teen girls from the wrong side of the tracks: Arna (the sensitive, freckled observer); pig-tailed Marlys (gifted, exuberant, snarky, and spastic); the older Maybonne (concerned with social justice, music, makeup, hairdos and boys); Arnold (typical tough boy, interested in Playboy magazines, dirt bikes, and bloody things) and Freddie (gay, sweet, bullied, fascinated with bugs and monsters). She often ventures far afield from these main characters, such as in her strips featuring a Beat Poet poodle named Fred Milton. She has also produced novels. She garnered attention with her book, The Good Times are Killing Me, about an interracial friendship between two young girls. The book was made into a play. She also wrote novels: Cruddy (2000) and One! Hundred! Demons! (2002), a graphic novel she terms "Autobiofictionalography." 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. This novel won the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.
After graduating from Evergreen she moved to Seattle. When she was 23, the Chicago Reader picked up her comic strip, enabling her to make a living from her comics alone. She later moved to Chicago, Illinois. While Barry's work is humorous, the undertones are usually serious. It depicts life as harsh but occasionally joyful. Her work addresses themes of intolerance and psychic pain, and at times includes some starkly left-wing political commentary.
Barry is married to Kevin Kawula, a prairie restoration expert. They met each other while she was an artist-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation and he was land manager of the Lake Forest Open Lands project in Lake Forest, Illinois. They live on a farm near Footville, Wisconsin. She is a vegetarian and says she came to it slowly. More recently, she has become an outspoken critic of wind power.
Source:
Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynda_Barry
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