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...Lynda Barry's new book may present a problem for the librarians smart enough to purchase it. Barry classifies her book as "autobifictionalography." Should libraries start a new section? Maybe. It wouldn't be the only book there. No fewer than four semi-autobiographical books about growing up, all by women cartoonists, have appeared or will appear this fall. TIME.comix has dedicated each week in October to covering a different volume...
...page on "Hate" from Lynda Barry's "One Hundred Demons...
Fortunately, nostalgia isn't all you get from this book. In the best pieces, Barry explores wider themes, most often the loss of childhood innocence. The "Dancing" piece, for example, changes when the teenage Lynda learns that she dances like a spaz. "All of sudden dancing got hard," she writes, showing herself caught between the desire for and dread of carefree dancing. Told in a vaguely chronological order, each vignette explores a different aspect of the change from childhood to the alienated world of the teenager. Particularly vivid is Barry's portrait of her mother, a Filipino immigrant with...
...She’s amazing. She combines beauty and brains,” says Lynda Laux Bachard, one of the contest’s coordinators. Redd hasn’t been the only Harvard woman with the winning combination of brains and beauty. Beginning in August 1957 as “The 10 Best-Dressed College Girls in America,” the contest has attracted a plethora of Harvard’s finest. One of the 1957 winners, Radcliffe graduate Priscilla Bowden ’61, was the first woman accepted to the editorial staff of The Crimson. Glamour...
...wait is over. A remarkable bounty has arrived this fall: Leela Corman's "Subway Series," Debby Drechsler's "The Summer of Love," Lynda Barry's "One Hundred Demons" and Phoebe Gloeckner's "Diary of a Teenage Girl." Even more remarkable, using different approaches, all four books explore the challenges of female adolescence. To cover them all, TIME.comix has declared October to be "Ladies' Month," reviewing each on a successive week...