Everything in the World [Paperback]

Lynda Barry (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 95 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins; 1st edition (October 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060961074
• ISBN-13: 978-0060961077
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,263,887 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More 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.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not everything, but everything important, October 27, 2000

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Daniel McKeown (Adelaide, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everything in the World (Paperback)

This is Lynda's fourth collection of Ernie Pook's Comeek strips and covers the worlds of Endless Love, Growing Up, Relationships and Problems. As Nicole Hollander said on the back cover, "Anyone who does not laugh at Dr. Lynda J. Barry must be dead".

This book is where you will find the classic strips about Rahoolio, "Would you like to drink more of my pee, Cezer?" and "The Fun House" (later reused as a title to another strip collection).

The expected elements of uncles, Ratfink, teen parties and waiting for that phone call are all present and mostly drawn in pen (before Lynda switched to her current style using mostly brush).

Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the development of Lynda Barry as an artist (pre-Marlys / Maybonne and the gang) or for anyone who needs a good laugh, an uncomfortable squirm or both.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hoot, October 3, 2007

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Jessica Price (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everything in the World (Paperback)

I bought this in high school when it came out [edit: it turns out that's not true, it came out in 1982, and I bought it later, in 1986] [whoops, it turns out I was right in the first place; the reason the book has copyright years going back to 1982 is because it collects comics for those years]. My copy is tattered and literally falling apart from being read so much. It will make you laugh, it might make you cry, I hope it makes you smile, a lot. It's just wonderful.