Barry Lynda - One! Hundred! Demons! - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: You ll wonder how anything can be so sad and so funny at the same time. Lev Grossman Time Inspired by a sixteenth - century Zen monk's painting of a hundred demons chasing each other across a long scroll acclaimed cartoonist Lynda Barry confronts various demons from her life in seventeen full - color vignettes. In Barry's hand demons are the life moments that haunt you form you and stay with you: your worst boyfriend; kickball games on a warm summer night; watching your baby brother dance; the smell of various houses in the neighborhood you grew up in; or the day you realize your childhood is long behind you and you are officially a teenager. As a cartoonist Lynda Barry has the innate ability to zero in on the essence of truth a magical quality that has made her book One! Hundred! Demons! an enduring classic of the early twenty - first century. In the book's intro however Barry throws the idea of truth out of the window by asking the reader to decide if fiction can have truth and if autobiography can have a fiction a hybrid that Barry coins autobiofictionalography. As readers get to know Barry's demons they realize that the actual truth no longer matters because the universality of Barry's comics true or untrue reigns supreme.
Title: One! Hundred! Demons!
Author(s): Barry Lynda
Publisher: Drawn And Quarterly
Barcode: 9781770462779
Pages: 224 Pages, Colour Illustrations Throughout
Publication Date: 5/9/2017
Category: Graphic Novels