Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry
Lynda Jean Barry is an American cartoonist and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth2 January 1956
CountryUnited States of America
cheer thinking people
I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
class students thrown
If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
cartoon would-be behind-my-back
I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.
life reading bird
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
names awful quiet
Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.
color add film
For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
thrill kind letterman
Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
shadow
I am about as detailed as a shadow.
gay men lucky
I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.
cute animal found
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
people matter way
I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
high-heels guy confusing
These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.
exercise mind diaries
The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.
book reading writing
You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.