Lynda Barry's Life And Accomplishments

Lynda Barry is recognized for her contribution to the comic art and listed as one of twelve women cartoonists of lifetime achievement. As a cartoonist and author, Barry works represent her in a form where her graphic novel is part of a memoir, collage, and workbook. Barry was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin but grew up in Seattle, Washington in an African-America neighborhood. Barry is half Filipino from her mother and half Irish from her father. Lynda Barry original name was spelled Linda but changed her first name at the of twelve. Life was difficult for Barry when she was growing up because of her parents divorced and she started to work at nights as a janitor at a Seattle hospital while going to high school. Although, her parents did