About Lynda Barry: Lynda Jean Barry is an American cartoonist and author.
I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.
Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.
Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.
For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about look...
In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't let anyone look at the person who's reading. No eye contact; everybody has to draw a spiral. And I would like to do a drawing c...
The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their hou...
When you think about it, giving up your 'real' personality is a small price to pay for the richness of 'living happily ever after' with an actual man!
I am about as detailed as a shadow.
If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.
Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.
The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead.
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.
I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.
I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.
Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?
