I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

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• Lynda Barry:

  I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them

• Lynda Barry:

  The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.

• Lynda Barry:

  Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a

• Lynda Barry:

  People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

• Lynda Barry:

  There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences,

• Lynda Barry:

  Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is

• Lynda Barry:

  In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

• Lynda Barry:

  I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of

• Lynda Barry:

  I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

• Lynda Barry:

  Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't