Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry
Lynda Jean Barry is an American cartoonist and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth2 January 1956
CountryUnited States of America
easier less nobody people shy
It's much easier to teach writing, because people are less shy about writing. If they're in a group, nobody can see what they're writing. When you're drawing, people get a little more nervous.
beyond feelings looking seeing stuff
For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures.
button trying
When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that delete button just won't let anything go forward.
amazing barefoot became eat food hang kids pest richer streets tried walk
I tried to be like the richer kids as much as I could because I wanted to live on their streets, at least hang out on their streets and eat their amazing food and walk barefoot on their shag carpets. I became something of a pest in that way, and in general, other people's parents didn't like me.
guided trying whenever
Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.
holding mom
My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.
My childhood is always going to limit me.
alone believe brought played playing seems
I believe a kid who is playing is not alone. There is something brought alive during play, and this something, when played with, seems to play back.
When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.
aloof attractive concepts man none offer scientific shine shoes sick thousands
When an attractive but ALOOF (""cool"") man comes along, there are some of us who offer to shine his shoes with our underpants. There are thousands of scientific concepts as to why this is so, and yes, yes, it's very sick but none of this helps.
american-cartoonist cigar cruise exploding love time track willingly
If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say 'No! I don't want it right now,' that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.
feeling fly great
You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
crazy kids looks
I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
song mirrors voice
I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.