Syllabus Notes from an Accidental Professor

“Barry isnt particularly interested in the writers craft. Shes more interested in where ideas come from—and her goal is to help people tap into what she considers to be an innate creativity.” —The New York Times

“In Barrys work, the transcendent power of the imagination awaits.” —Laura Miller, Salon.com (Unforgettable Graphic Novels of 2013)

Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher and found that they are all very much alike. She is the author of the acclaimed graphic novel One! Hundred! Demons!,  the cartoonist behind the long-running Ernie Pooks Comeek, and the author of the creative how-to memoir comic books What It Is and Picture This. She lives in Wisconsin, where she is an assistant professor of art and a Discovery Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.