Cartoonist Lynda Barry: Drawing 'Has To Come Out Of Your Body'
Comic artist Lynda Barry has a new book, Making Comics, and a MacArthur Genius Grant (though she says she hung up on the MacArthur folks repeatedly because she thought it was a robocall).
It's always a surprise to see who the MacArthur Foundation selects to receive its annual fellowships — the six-figure awards known as Genius Grants — but one of was particularly exhilarating: comic artist Lynda Barry. For anyone who read alternative weeklies from the '80s through the '00s, she was the eternally wise and strange mind behind She's also penned several graphic novels and three books about the creative process, adapted an award-winning off-Broadway play and taught art, most recently at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her most recent book is , out this month. I spoke to her about the drawing
