About Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry is an American humorist and cartoonist. She rose to fame in the 1980s in the early days of alternative newpaper comic strips, with her work appearing in many free alternative weeklies across the United States.
Lynda Barry Biography & Criticism
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Contagious Imagination: the work and art of Lynda Barry
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Call Number: PN 6727 .B36 Z5 C56 2022ISBN: 9781496839831Publication Date: 2022 -
Lynda Barry : girlhood through the looking glass
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Call Number: PN 6727 .K575 L93 2012ISBN: 9781617032356Publication Date: 2012 -
Funny ladies [videorecording] : a portrait of women cartoonists
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Call Number: (streaming video)Publication Date: 1991
Lynda Barry Bibliography
Major works by Lynda Barry in the U-M Library collection. For others, do an author search in the Library Catalog for "Barry, Lynda, 1956-"
See also Lynda Barry comics available online in the Underground and Independant Comics database.
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The Greatest of Marlys
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Call Number: PN 6727 .B36 G742 2016ISBN: 9781770462649Publication Date: 2016Also available online -
Making Comics
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Call Number: PN 6727 .B36 M35 2019ISBN: 9781770463691Publication Date: 2019Also available online. -
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What It Is
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Call Number: PN 6727 .B36 W43 2012ISBN: 9781897299357Publication Date: 2008Also available online
Lynda Barry Multimedia
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Lynda Barry: Accessing the ImaginaryVideo of a conversation with Lynda Barry as part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series. March 14, 2013, at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.
Lynda Barry Articles
A selection of journal articles about Lynda Barry and her works. To find more, search in Library Articles Search on "Lynda Barry", limiting to articles from scholarly journals.
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Cartoonists as Matchmakers: The Vibrant Relationship of Text and Image in the Work of Lynda Barryby Harris, Miriam
Elective Affinities. Brill Rodopi, 2009. 129-144. -
Colonial hauntings in Lynda Barry’s One Hundred Demonsby Oh, Stella
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Comic Visions and Revisions in the Work of Lynda Barry and Marjane Satrapiby Theresa M Tensuan
Modern Fiction Studies Vol. 52, Issue 4. Date: 12/01/2006 Start Page: 947. -
Considering the Alternative in Composition Pedagogy: Teaching Invitational Rhetoric With Lynda Barry's What It Isby Kirtley, Susan
Women's Studies in Communication 37.3 (2014): 339-359. -
Excavating Childhood: Fairy Tales, Monsters, and Abuse Survival in Lynda Barry's What It Isby Michael, Olga
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 32.3 (2017): 541-566. -
Naturalism's Children: Unruly Naturalism in Works by Darcy Steinke, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lynda Barryby Papke, Mary E.
Studies in American Naturalism 11.2 (2016): 56-70. -
Of Monsters and Mothers: Filipina American Identity and Maternal Legacies in Lynda J. Barry's One Hundred Demonsby Melinda Luisa de Jesús
Meridians Vol. 5, Issue 1. Date: 2004 Start Page: 1. -
Scrapbooking Caravaggio's Medusa, Reconfiguring Blake: What It Is, One! Hundred! Demons!, and Lynda Barry's Feminist Intervention in the (Male) Artistic Canonby Michael, Olga
ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies 9.3 (2017).
Last Updated: Nov 25, 2025 2:36 PM
Subjects: Arts, Humanities