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Cartoonist Lynda Barry Will Make You Believe In Yourself

June 3, 2024
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Cartoonist Lynda Barry Will Make You Believe In Yourself


After Sept. 11, 2001, Barry foundered creatively. She and her second husband, Kevin Kawula, a prairie-restoration expert, moved from Evanston, Ill., to a 15-acre farm in rural Wisconsin. Kawula, an affable bear of a man β€” β€œEverybody else loves Han Solo,” she told me, β€œbut I always wanted Chewbacca” β€” built Barry a free-standing, sun-filled studio overstuffed with scrap paper, art supplies and knickknacks given to her by students. (In Miami, a puppeteer named Hannah made a little Marlys marionette, complete with polka-dot underpants.)

By 2008, the consolidation of the alt-weekly world meant that β€œErnie Pook’s” was appearing in only four papers, and Barry was earning just $155 a week drawing it. Stuck in a draining battle with wind developers over plans to build turbines in her town β€” β€œthey’re the S.U.V. of renewable energy,” she said β€” she decided to shutter the strip months shy of its 30th anniversary.

Now she sells original art on eBay and has been buoyed by the modest success of β€œWhat It Is,” her 2008 book about writing, and its follow-up in 2010, β€œPicture This,” about art. But it’s the classesΒ­, which Barry began teaching to share the techniques she learned from a drawing professor at Evergreen, that spark her enthusiasm. She conducts around 15 workshops a year, from two-hour minisessions with college students to long multiday seminars at writers’ conferences like this one.

On the afternoon after the third class, we sat in a hotel bar drinking Tsingtaos. β€œNow I can take this off,” Barry said, untying her bandanna and dropping it in her bag. That day started out rough. β€œFor an hour, it was hellish,” Barry said. The workshop can seem haphazard but is actually carefully planned. β€œI run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I’m not doing that at all. I have stories that I know will make ’em laugh and forget. I have others that are more about: think about this. And then the ones that are really important to me, like the story about β€˜The Family Circus.’ ”

She told that story at the end of the session. β€œI grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble,” she said. β€œAs much trouble as you could imagine. In the daily paper, there were all these comic strips, and there was one that was a circle. It seemed like things were pretty good on the other side of the circle. No one’s getting hit. No one’s yelling.”



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