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...Hundred! Demons! by Lynda Barry (Sasquatch Books; 2002) A long-time weekly strip artist ("Ernie Pook's Comeek"), Barry created this all-original book from her own experiences. Labeled an "autobiofictionalography" it contains perfect-pitch memories of the awkwardness of adolescence in the form of short vignettes. Full Review
...This third installment examines Barry's "One Hundred Demons" (Sasquatch Books; 224pp HC; $24.95), the first work of (nearly) non-fiction by the veteran alternative weekly cartoonist. Whatever she wants to call it, Barry's book creates a poignant mix of what makes our lives both comical...
...Kavalier & Clay, is a novelist who can fashion an elegant grownup story as if it were a piece of soft aluminum. But the opportunity to plunge into the burdleburple of sheer fantasy is one reason he wrote Summerland (Hyperion/Miramax; 500 pages), the kind of book that features a motherly Sasquatch, some intrepid kids, numerous giants and "werefoxes," and several cliff-hanger baseball games on which the fate of the whole world just happens to hinge, plus a giant, prognosticating clam...
Barry's new book, One Hundred Demons (Sasquatch; 224 pages), may be her breakthrough, but she's been perfecting her distinctive take on the funny pages since she was a kid in Seattle. "I started selling my drawings pretty early on," she says. "They were a weird amalgam of Playboy and Betty and Veronica. I used to sell those for a nickel." At Evergreen State College, which she describes as a small "hippie" school in Washington State that she attended in the 1970s, she drew comics for the school newspaper. "I was studying fine arts," she remembers, "and I went...
Canada and the United States share the world's longest undefended border. The only major disturbances you'll find are Sasquatch and Niagara Falls. It's quieter than the hotline for the Vanilla Ice Fan Club...