If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

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• Lynda Barry:

  I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.

• Lynda Barry:

  I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

• Lynda Barry:

  If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I

• Lynda Barry:

  I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny

• Lynda Barry:

  I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

• Lynda Barry:

  I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so

• Lynda Barry:

  Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I

• Lynda Barry:

  I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened

• 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.