The Greatest of Marlys
$50.41
- Hardcover
248 pages
- Release Date
16 August 2016
Summary
Welcome to the world of Marlys and Maybonne”Lynda Barry’s comics were my YA, before YA really even existed. She’s been writing teen stories with an incredibly clear voice since the early 80s. The Greatest Of Marlys is raw, ugly, hilarious, and poignant.” –Raina Telgemeier, Smile & DramaEight-year-old Marlys Mullen is Lynda Barry’s most famous character from her long-running and landmark comic strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek, and for good reason! Given her very own collection of strips, Marlys shines in all her freckled and pig-tailed groovy glory. The trailer park where she and her family live is the grand stage for her dramas big and small. Joining Marlys are her teenaged sister Maybonne, her younger brother Freddie, their mother, and an offbeat array of family members, neighbors, and classmates.Marlys’s enthusiasm for life knows no bounds. Her childhood is one where the neighborhood kids stay out all night playing kickball; the desire to be popular is unending; bullies are unrepentant; and parents make few appearances. The Greatest Of Marlys spotlights Barry’s masterful skill of chronicling childhood through adolescence in all of its wonder, awkwardness, humor, and pain.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770462649 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770462643 |
| Author: | Lynda Barry |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 16 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 1.24kg |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 221mm x 261mm |
| Audience Age: | 10 |
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Critics Review
The Greatest of Marlys is a collection of [Barry’s] best cartoon work, and as such it’s a perfect introduction to her (we’re approaching a word not commonly employed when talking of cartoons) oeuvreHow many writers can place us back in third grade without getting vague or wistful? Lynda Barry has no peer. -Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review
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 an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Creativity at the University of Wisconsin Madison. In 2019, she received the “Genius grant” from the MacArthurs Fellows program.In addition to What It Is, Barry has written four bestselling and acclaimed creative how-to graphic novels, What It Is; Picture This; Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor; and Making Comics. Her seminal comic strip, Ernie Pook’s Comeek, features Marlys, Maybonne, and Freddie and was collected into The! Greatest! of! Marlys!, The Freddie Stories, Come Over Come Over, My Perfect Life, and It’s So Magic. Her other books include One! Hundred! Demons!, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, and The Good Times are Killing Me.
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