Author: Lynda Barry

On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping two of the 127 hits of acid found in a friend’s shoe, a sixteen-year-old who is grounded for a year curls up in the corner o …

A blockbuster anthology of original, blood-curdling vampire fiction from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors, including Charlaine Harris, whose novels were adapted into HBOs hit show …

The bestselling, idiosyncratic curriculum from a 2019 Mac Arthur Fellow will teach you how to draw and write your story “The self-help book of the year.”—The New York Times Hello students, meet Profe …

The creative-drawing companion to the acclaimed and bestselling What It Is Lynda Barry single-handedly created a literary genre all her own, the graphic memoir/how-to, otherwise known as the bestsell …

Lynda Barry’s classic heartbreaking and heartwarming coming of age novella back in print Young Edna Arkins lives in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing, thanks to white flight from urban Seattle …

THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF TROUBLED ADOLESCENTS FROM BARRY’S ACCLAIMED COMIC The Freddie Stories traces a year in the life of Freddie, the youngest member of the dysfunctional Mullen family. Thes …

‘Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+’ -Salon How do objects summon memories? What do real …

Writing exercises and creativity advice from Barry’s pioneering, life-changing workshop The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work What I …

‘You’ll wonder how anything can be so sad and so funny at the same time.’—Lev Grossman, Time Inspired by a sixteenth-century Zen monk’s painting of a hundred demons chasing each other across a long s …

Welcome to the world of Marlys and Maybonne ‘Lynda Barry’s comics were my YA, before YA really even existed. She’s been writing teen stories with an incredibly clear voice since the early 80s. [The G …

From her first comics published in the Evergeen State College school paper to her influential weekly comic strip, Ernie Pook’s Comeek; from her bestselling creative how-to memoir comic books, What It …

The classic book featuring Maybonne Mullen and her little sister Marlys is back in print! Lynda Barry captures all the glorious magic and excrutiating pain of junior high school in this Ernie Pook Co …

Maybonne and Marlys Mullen endure the mortifying highs and lows of middle school in this Lynda Barry classic. Collected from the strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek, which was serialized in alternative weeklie …

“Lynda Barry’s Ernie Pook’s Comeek… made the world look wild, ugly, joyful, and mysterious.” —The New Yorker Maybonne Mullen is “riding on a bummer” according to her little sister, Marlys. As much as …