My Perfect Life [Paperback]

Lynda Barry (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 127 pages
• Publisher: Perennial; 1st edition (April 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060965053
• ISBN-13: 978-0060965051
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,376,600 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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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lynda saw what you did..., May 12, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: My Perfect Life (Paperback)

You will think that Lynda has been reading your diary, when you were sure you had the key in your locket. You will see that she understands your every whim because she has been through childhood as her reincarnated self so many times that she can see the inside of your skin and learned how to draw all the veins, the fascinating glorious horror of them, of popping pimples and peeling glue from your palms, falling in like and off your bike, she will make you shudder as earwax, scabs, and floating fish, with the same feeling as the urge you get to colour everything around you in, even in your office pants. In this way reading her work is like being becoming absorbed in a page of someone's first scribbles. You will know that Lynda has been reading your diary, and then you might actually smile, at how she deserves access to it becuase you just have to admit that she can make more out of it than you can

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book saved my mind in junior high, August 6, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: My Perfect Life (Paperback)

Lynda Barry comics are the best. That's it. This whole book (and also Come Over, Come Over) blew my mind when I read them and made me really happy that someone could make the horible crap I was feeling seem actually funny, sometimes in a kind of sick way, but I read the books over and over and they never failed to please

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Just Cartoons, But Literature, October 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: My Perfect Life (Paperback)

Much like the content of her "ernie pook's comeek", Lynda Barry's "My Perfect Life" is more than just a cartoon, it is literature. The book sucks you into the lives of its complex and appealing characters until you are experiencing and caring about what happens to them. Sometimes hilarious and sometimes sad, this is a wonderful book.