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Lynda Barry Date: 3/7/2013 Cartoonist, Graphic Novelist and Author An Evening with Lynda Barry THU, MAR 7 / 8 PM / CAMPBELL HALL $15 / $10 UCSB students Presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures Tickets: (805) 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu “Lynda Barry’s excitable, bittersweet cartoons and collages are practically a cultural fixture.” The New York Times “Barry has a pitch-perfect sense of the way kids talk and think. Childhood’s cruelties and pleasures, remembered in luminous, unsparing detail.” Publishers Weekly “One of the world’s greatest cartoonists.” Salon.com Queen of the alternative comic strip, inimitable cartoonist and author Lynda Barry has blazed many trails over her long career. Her nationally syndicated strip, Ernie Pook’s Comeek, featured the wild daydreams, musings and torments of an unforgettable cast of quirky pre-teens – beloved Marlys, Freddie and Arna – and ran for nearly three decades in independent weekly newspapers. In recent years, Barry has written and illustrated award-winning books on creativity Picture This and What It Is. Among her other books are One! Hundred! Demons!; The! Greatest! of! Marlys!; Naked Ladies Naked Ladies Naked Ladies; acclaimed novels Cruddy and The Good Times Are Killing Me; and her most recent collection, The Freddie Stories. Books will be available for purchase and signing |