Lynda Barry
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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Young Adult Library Services Association
Nominated for Great Graphic Novel for Teens for Making Comics
Ringo Award
Nominated for Best Presentation in Design for Making Comics
Harvey Award
Nominated for Book of the Year for Making Comics
Eisner Award
Best Publication Design for Making Comics
Eisner Award
Best Comics-Related Book for Making Comics
ALA / YALSA
Nominated for Alex Award for Making Comics
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
for What It Is
Reuben Award
Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award for Lynda Barry
Eisner Award
Will Eisner Hall of Fame for Lynda Barry
Reuben Award
Nominated for National Cartoonist of the Year for Lynda Barry
Ignatz Award
Nominated for Outstanding Anthology or Collection for Lynda Barry
Eisner Award
Nominated for Best Painter for Picture This
Eisner Award
Nominated for Best Reality-Based Work for Picture This
Eisner Award
Best Reality-Based Work for What It Is
Eisner Award
Nominated for Best Publication Design for What It Is
Eisner Award
Nominated for Best Painter for What It Is
Eisner Award
Best Graphic Album: New for Lynda Barry
Inkpot Award
Special Contribution to the World Of Comics for Lynda Barry
May 5, 2022
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