One! Hundred! Demons! - by Lynda Barry (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this collection of comic strips, Lynda Barry wrestles with some of her 100 demons in her signature quirky, irrepressible voice.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>"You'll wonder how anything can be so sad and so funny at the same time." --Lev Grossman, <i>Time</i></b> <p/>Inspired by a sixteenth-century Zen monk's painting of a hundred demons chasing each other across a long scroll, acclaimed cartoonist Lynda Barry confronts various demons from her life in seventeen full-color vignettes. In Barry's hand, demons are the life moments that haunt you, form you, and stay with you: your worst boyfriend; kickball games on a warm summer night; watching your baby brother dance; the smell of various houses in the neighborhood you grew up in; or the day you realize your childhood is long behind you and you are officially a teenager. <p/>As a cartoonist, Lynda Barry has the innate ability to zero in on the essence of truth, a magical quality that has made her book <i>One! Hundred! Demons!</i> an enduring classic of the early twenty-first century. In the book's intro, however, Barry throws the idea of truth out of the window by asking the reader to decide if fiction can have truth and if autobiography can have a fiction, a hybrid that Barry coins "<i>autobiofictionalography.</i>" As readers get to know Barry's demons, they realize that the actual truth no longer matters because the universality of Barry's comics, true or untrue, reigns supreme.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>You'll wonder how anything can be so sad and so funny at the same time. -Lev Grossman, <i>Time</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Lynda Barry</b> has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher. She is the inimitable creator behind the seminal comic strip <i>Ernie Pook</i><i>'</i><i>s Comeek</i>, and author of <i>The Freddie Stories</i>, <i>One! Hundred! Demons!</i>, <i>The Greatest of Marlys</i>, <i>Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel</i>, <i>Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies!</i>, and <i>The Good Times are Killing Me</i>, which was adapted as an off-Broadway play and won the Washington State Governor's Award. Barry has written three bestselling and acclaimed creative how-to graphic novels for D+Q: the Eisner Award-winning <i>What It Is</i>, and <i>Picture This</i>, and <i>Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor</i>.
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