One Hundred Demons

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Lynda Barry

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English

Drawn and Quarterly
18 April 2017

Graphic novels; Fiction-related items; Graphic Novel; Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards

Inspired

by

a

16th-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 colour

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 neighbourhood

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 21st 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.

By: Lynda Barry
Imprint: Drawn and Quarterly
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781770462779
ISBN 10: 1770462775
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 18 April 2017
Recommended Age: From 14 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher. She is the inimitable creator behind the seminal comic strip Ernie Pook s Comeek, and author of The Freddie Stories, One! Hundred! Demons!, The Greatest of Marlys, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies!, and The Good Times are Killing Me, which was adapted as an off- Broadway play and won the Washington State Governor s Award. Barry has written three bestselling and acclaimed creative how-to graphic novels for D+Q: the Eisner Award- winning What It Is, and Picture This, and Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor.