Linda Barry 3-29-2005

Abstract

Dr. Anne Panning and Dr. Alicia Chase interview Linda Barry. Linda Barry is a cartoonist, the creator of "Ernie Pook's Comeek", author of "The Good Times Are Killing Me", "Cruddy", "One! Hundred! Demons!", and "What It Is". In 2004, she won the Lulu Award from the Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame. The interview segment opens with Lynda reading and excerpt from "What It Is". The discussion begins with Lynda's time in college and how she developed her art style. She mentions this time in her life was a period of doing her best to keep her work "serious" so she'd one day become respected as an artist. She explains how she went about submitting comics and what the general public opinion about comic strips was at the time and how that impacted her early work. Lynda talks about where the stories for her comics come from and how she conceptualizes them into comics. Lynda outlines her creative process and how that pushes her work forward. The discussion is closed with Lynda reading an excerpt from "One! Hundred! Demons!".