Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry
Lynda Jean Barry is an American cartoonist and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth2 January 1956
CountryUnited States of America
funny dog
You'll never call him Fifi again.
hate writing people
I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?
stupid class race
Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid
way exploding
Love will make a way out of no way
hands talking mad
I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
lonely lonely-places dies
Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson
heart evil hatred
It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me
drug blame dear
Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
mind be-kind tenants
The thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.
mother heart feet
What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the needle would rise and rise and rise through the veins leading up to the heart and then the needle would STAB HER IN THE HEART and Roberta would DIE and it would be VERY PAINFUL this according to nurse mother a medical expert on Freaky Ways to Croak... The mother shouted that she knew several people who died from the Rising Stab of the Unfelt Needle or RSUN she has seen cases of it many times and not ONE PERSON HAS SURVIVED IT.
etch-a-sketch upside-down turns
If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
children believe resilience
This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.
men hot looks
A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.
world paper shapes
but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.