Picture This

In more than 200 pages of riotously distinct collages made with brush and paint, notebook paper, cutouts, tape and glue, Barry sets out to show you no, to remind you of the pleasures of inking, smudging and, most important, fumbling your way to inspiration. The New York Times. In her memoir-cum-workbooks What It Is and Picture This Barry puts her many talents into play. The books dense collages, lively cartoons, and hand-drawn text use autobiographical tidbits and philosophical flights of fancy to explore the creative impulse. The Paris Review

Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher and found that they are very much alike. She lives in Wisconsin, where she is associate professor of art and Discovery Fellow at University of Wisconsin Madison.

Barry is the inimitable creator behind the seminal comic strip that was syndicated across North America in alternative weeklies for two decades, Ernie Pook’s Comeek, featuring the incomparable Marlys and Freddy. She is the author of The Freddie Stories, One! Hundred! Demons!, The! Greatest! of! Marlys!, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies!, and The Good Times are Killing Me, which was adapted as an off-Broadway play and won the Washington State Governor’s Award.

She has written four bestselling and acclaimed creative how-to graphic novels for Drawn & Quarterly: What It Is (which won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Graphic Novel and R.R. Donnelly Award for highest literary achievement by a Wisconsin author), Picture This, Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor, and Making Comics (which received two Eisner Awards and appeared on numerous best of the year lists including the New York Times).

In 2019 she received a MacArthur Genius Grant. Barry was born in Wisconsin in 1956.

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