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chelseamartinez's review
3.0
Compilation of earliest Lynda Barry comics, starting from her childhood influences (I do now want to try to draw Rat Fink and capture his feeling). Includes pages with a current-day visual narrative, and selected comics she drew and published in her 20s. There's an amazing turn to, as she duly notes, bitterness, when she starts primarily drawing adults rather than kids in 1980-1981, which is especially interesting to me as a person who mostly knows her through Marlys. Also cool to see correspondence comics from Matt Groening and Gary Panter and to think of comics in the mail as a way (talented) people used to (still do?) amuse their friends.
bluenicorn's review
4.0
Okay, there was some roughness in the early years. But I still loved it- Evette & Rita are precious, and some of the later Girls & Boys hit really close to home about gender and relationships. Looking forward to the next round.
kfan's review
3.0
Good! I like it. Some nice stuff here. Would totally have loved it if she'd included some behind the scenes stuff like "Here's what I was trying to do during this phase" or "Here was when my drawing started to be more X" or "I don't like these as much because I was trying too hard to do Z and it wasn't until later that I realized Y" or something, I don't know.
missnicelady's review
4.0
A groovy, #1 collection of Barry's super-early pre-Marlys stuff. The tone and drawing styles are kind of all over the place, but she starts to find her voice with "Girls and Boys" (reprinted here in its entirety, which is pretty cool).
riverjuniper's review
4.0
Absolutely loved this one!!! Some of them didn’t super resonate with me but some of the comics were sooooooooo good!!! I loved the ones with the sisters so much they were some of my favourite comics I’ve ever read. After reading this and One! Hundred! Demons, I absolutely love Lynda Barry. I also follow her on Instagram and it feels like we’re friends at this point hahah! Just awesome totally recommend this one!!!!
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