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A series of portraits by the creator of What It Is features a myopic monkey protagonist and includes pieces originally painted on typed science and arithmetic notes from the 1920s, in a collection that follows her everyday and fantastical routinesTitle: Picture ThisAuthor: Barry, Lynda/ Kawula, Kevin (ILT)Publisher: Farrar Straus & GirouxPublication Date: 2010/11/09Number of Pages: 224Binding Type: HARDCOVERLibrary of Congress: bl2010027998
About the Author
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 seminal comic strip that was syndicated scross North America in alternative weeklies for two decades, 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!, The Good Times are Killing Me which was adapted as an off-Broadway play and won the Washington State Governor's Award. Her bestselling and acclaimed creative writing-how to-graphic novel for Drawn & Quarterly, What It Is, won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Graphic Novel and R.R. Donnelly Award for highest literary achievement by a Wisconsin author. D Q plans to publish a multivolume collection of Ernie Pook's Comeek, Barry's next prose novel, and the follow up and creative drawing companion to What It Is, November 2010's Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book.Born in Wisconsin in 1956, Lynda studied at Evergreen State College.
