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The Greatest of Marlys

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Greatest of Marlys

Contributors:

By (Author) Lynda Barry

ISBN:

9781770462649

Publisher:

Drawn and Quarterly

Imprint:

Drawn and Quarterly

Publication Date:

1st November 2016

UK Publication Date:

10th August 2016

Country:

Canada

Classifications

Readership:

Children

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

741.56973

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

248

Dimensions:

Width 222mm, Height 263mm, Spine 29mm

Weight:

1240g

Description

Lynda Barry's comics were my YA before YA really even existed. She's been writing teen stories with an incredibly clear voice since the early 80s. [The Greatest Of Marlys] is raw, ugly, hilari-ous, and poignant. -Raina Telgemeier, Smile and Drama. Eight-year-old Marlys Mullen is Lynda Barry's most famous character from her long-running and landmark comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, and for good reason! Given her very own collection of strips, Marlys shines in all her freckled and pig-tailed groovy glory. The trailer park where she and her family live is the grand stage for her dramas big and small. Joining Marlys are her teenaged sister Maybonne, her younger brother Freddie, their mother, and an offbeat array of family members, neighbors, and classmates. Marlys's enthusiasm for life knows no bounds. Her childhood is one where the neighborhood kids stay out all night playing kickball; the desire to be popular is unending; bullies are unrepentant; and parents make few appearances. The Greatest Of Marlys spotlights Barry's masterful skill of chronicling childhood through adolescence in all of its wonder, awkward- ness, humor, and pain.

Reviews

The Greatest of Marlys is a collection of [Barry's] best cartoon work, and as such it's a perfect introduction to her (we're approaching a word not commonly employed when talking of cartoons) oeuvreHow many writers can place us back in third grade without getting vague or wistful Lynda Barry has no peer. -Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, com- mentator, 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.

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