Lynda Barry

About

Most famous for her Ernie Pook's Comeek comic strip, this cartoonist and writer also penned several graphic and illustrated novels, including Cruddy (1999), One! Hundred! Demons! (2002), and What It Is (2008). She was the 2009 recipient of the Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Comic Work.

Before Fame

She earned a Fine Arts degree from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

Trivia

Her 1998 work The Good Times Are Killing Me deals with a friendship between children of different races. She adapted the book into an early 1990s Off-Broadway play.

Family Life

She grew up in Wisconsin and Washington as the daughter of a Filipina-Irish mother and a Norwegian-Irish father. Following her marriage to naturalist Kevin Kawula, she settled on a Wisconsin dairy farm.

Associated With

During the 1980s, she was romantically involved with National Public Radio host Ira Glass.