My Perfect Life
$40.82
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2022
Summary
Maybonne and Marlys Mullen endure the mortifying highs and lows of middle school in this Lynda Barry classic.
Collected from the strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek, which was serialized in alternative weeklies across the continent, My Perfect Life captures the moment when Lynda Barry finds the perfect balance in longer-form storytelling between the bellyaching laughs and the brutal reality checks. Along with the 2022 release Come Over Come Over, this collection conti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770465657 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1770465650 |
| Author: | Lynda Barry |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 14 June 2022 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
My Perfect Life is [Barry s] finest, funniest, most affecting graphic novel to date, partly because she s perfected her draughtsmanship, but also because it observes the Aristotelian dramatic unities, sort of. Entertainment Weekly Barry s carefully chosen words and scribbly drawings capture the melodramatic fantasies and insecurities of adolescence more accurately than most conventional novels do. Los Angeles Times
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
- 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
- It’s So Magic
Her other books include:
- One! Hundred! Demons!
- Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel
- The Good Times are Killing Me
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