 Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator and teacher and found they are very much alike. She is the inimitable creator behind the syndicated strip “Ernie Pook's Comeek” featuring the incomparable Marlys and Freddy, as well as the books “One! Hundred! Demons!”, “The! Greatest! of! Marlys!”, “Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel”, “Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies!”, and her bestselling and acclaimed Drawn & Quarterly, “What It Is”, which won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Graphic Novel and the R.R. Donnelly Award for highest literary achievement by a Wisconsin author. D+Q plans to publish a multivolume hardcover collection of the seminal “Ernie Pook’s Comeek”, Barry’s next prose novel, as well as the follow up the “What It Is”, titled “Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book”.
“What It Is” is based on “Writing the Unthinkable” which is based on a tried-and-true method creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or remember. Lynda explores the depths of the inner and outer realms of creation and imagination, where play can be serious, monsters have purpose, and not knowing is an answer unto itself. Barry currently offers her workshop “Writing the Unthinkable” all over the place. “Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey” Book will be the creative drawing companion to “What It Is”.
Born in Wisconsin in 1956, Lynda studied at Evergreen State College. Her work has been widely praised, and her book “The Good Times are Killing Me”--also adapted as an off-Broadway musical--won the Washington State Governor's Award.
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