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Jul 01, 2009
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Mar 12, 2008
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Linda Barry’s autobiographical strips are amazing because they go against the whole idea of what cartoons are supposed to be, frivolous and peripheral and all that kind of stuff. I go along with that idea that they’re shoved to the back of the paper and aren’t meant to be taken seriously. It’ll be a while before people catch on that you don’t have to have a laugh at the end of every strip. Linda’s stuff reads like little miniature short stories which, at their best, rank with some of the great short story writers, Raymond Carver and others.

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