Lynda Barry

...will oversee bidding on a pair of white boxer shorts signed by David Sedaris, original cartoons out of our guestbook by Matt Groening and Lynda Barry, a poster signed by Annie Leibovitz, an original painting from the Big Fucking Hands series...

In this article: Champagne, David Sedaris, Annie Leibovitz, Matt Groening, and Ed Murray

...work are Lucy's family and friends (of family). So the write-up here seems a bit unfair on Feiffer and co., to me. In the fabulous Lynda Barry's case, at least, her recent work fares far better in print - What It Is is presented as a...

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...toward having brought all sorts of new audiences to the program," he said. For instance, the Nov. 5 conversation between cartoonists Lynda Barry and Matt Groening at UIC Forum drew close to 1,900 people, the festival's highest attended...

In this article: Revenue, Matt Groening, Millennium Park, and Chicago History Museum

...what I think I want to do every day, and I still wake up with a stomachache." The panel -- which included Feiffer, Ware, cartoonist Lynda Barry and Matt Groening, creator of "The Simpsons" and (as Ware pointed out) the only cartoonist on that...

In this article: Jules Feiffer, Chris Ware, Matt Groening, Candy, Life in Hell, Village Voice, Chicago Reader, and Francis W. Parker School

...at Barry's drawings. While unconventionally rendered, they carry an undeniable psychic charge legible in the context of her writing. Barry's early work was rendered with pen and had a distinctly New Wave , '80s look, but she told The...

In this article: The Evergreen State College, Salon.com, Matt Groening, Chicago, Austin, New Wave, Mark Alan Stamaty, and Eisner Award

...presentation and subsequent reception, to $5,000 for eight tickets, VIP reception, program recognition, and box set. 3. Matt Groening and Lynda Barry: Cartoonists in Conversation (Nov. 5) - "Simpsons" creator Groening shares the stage with...

In this article: Chicago, Francis W. Parker School, Jeff Garlin, All Jokes Aside, The Second City, and Matt Groening

...is in flux - and turns it into a hilarious and poignant story that is completely universal." 'Head Lice and My Worst Boyfriend' by Lynda Barry, cartoonist, creator of the syndicated strip Ernie Pook's Comeek "Lynda, my idol, is able to...

In this article: USA Today, She's Not There, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Santo Domingo

...that isn't. This is a short-story collection and every one of them is a gem. What It Is, by Lynda Barry I hope one day I meet Lynda Barry! It's a graphic, I don't know what you'd call it, about the nature of creative endeavor. When it...

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'FAMILY CIRCUS' (KFS)Enlarge Image In her introduction to "Best American Comics 2008," cartoonist Lynda Barry -- in editing the anthology -- professes her fanlove and attachment and devotion to "Family Circus" and "one of the greatest of...

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...spend their hourlong lecture swapping inside jokes from the Evergreen of yore. On the contrary, Barry clarified (via e-mail, because she hates the phone): Yes, they're digging back to their Evergreen roots, but only because it's the...

In this article: Matt Groening, The Simpsons, Chicago, E mail, Life in Hell, Evergreen State College, and Bart