It's So Magic
$39.69
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
6 September 2022
Summary
“Lynda Barry’s Ernie Pook’s Comeek… made the world look wild, ugly, joyful, and mysterious.” - The New Yorker
Maybonne Mullen is “riding on a bummer” according to her little sister Marlys. As much as teenage Maybonne prays and tries she just can’t connect to the magic of living. How can she when there’s so much upheaval at home and school, not to mention the world at large? And yet Marlys always seems able to tap into it.
In It’s So Magic, the Mullen family dynamics a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770466210 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1770466215 |
| Author: | Lynda Barry |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 6 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
‘Lynda Barry’s Ernie Pook’s Comeek … made the world look wild, ugly, joyful, and mysterious.’ – The New Yorker
Barry captures the voice of a young person so stunningly brilliantly.’ Autrostraddle. ‘Barry [explores] the strange geometries of childhood that moment when someone can simultaneously be friend, rival, and crush.’ The Guardian
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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