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Summary: This collection continues to spotlight the life of teenager Maybonne Mullen. She suffers through the utterly relatable insults of junior high and the excruciating embarrassment caused by her little sister, Marlys. Hovering in the background, however, is a broken home, parents struggling with addiction, a grandmother who takes her granddaughters from the diverse big city to a bewilderingly bland...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.5 BARBarry, Lynda
Summary: "Barry deftly portrays the capricious nature of teen friendships, adolescent peer-pressure, and the kill or be killed nature of a middle school's social scene in her signature style. In an authentic teen voice full of diffidence and melodrama, the bespectacled and freckled Maybonne relates all of life's indignities on equal measure. Heartbreaking stories of a broken home, child molestation, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BARBarry, Lynda
Summary: A psycho-killer's daughter narrates her gory youth. Disguised as a boy she accompanies her father on his murderous jobs, during which she pretends to be a mute so as not to give away her voice. One of the more memorable tasks is disposing of dead mobsters in a slaughterhouse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarry, Lynda
Summary: "For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BARBarry, Lynda
Summary: Buddhism teaches that each person must overcome 100 demons in a lifetime. In this collection of 20 comic strips, Lynda Barry wrestles with some of hers in her signature quirky, irrepressible voice. Color illustrations throughout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BARBarry, Lynda
Summary: "It" is a highly imaginative, image-and-words collage, mashed-up with a how-to-write book and highlighted with autobiographical snippets. Barry's purpose is to urge readers to interact with their own imagery, ideas, and stories, then write and/or draw them. The text wanders through a colorful, free-form garden of birds, animals, flowers, and snippets of letters and quotations, almost demanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014