Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I laughed out loud at this onstage recitation of a Life in Hell comic by Matt Groening and Lynda Barry . This clip, which runs under a minute, is from the Chicago Humanities Festival, " Cartoonists in Conversation with Matt Groening and Lynda Barry ." My thanks to Sepcot for posting this.
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Chicago Humanities Festival this weekend presents the pen-ultimate panel, entitled “The Not-So-Funny Situation of Alternative Comix” and featuring Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Jules Feiffer, and Chris Ware. Tickets are $5. We are likely living in the golden age of graphic novels and alternative comics, but the artists themselves are facing what may be the most significant...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Lynda Barry has known Matt Groening forever. Since they were students at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., in the early 1970s. Groening heard about this woman who wrote to Joseph Heller, the author of "Catch-22," and asked him to marry her. Heller wrote back to politely decline (he didn't want to live in a dorm), but Groening thought that was so cool. Groening asked...
Capitol Hill Seattle (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... boxer shorts signed by David Sedaris, original cartoons out of our guestbook by Matt Groening and Lynda Barry, a poster signed by Annie Leibovitz, an original painting from the Big Fucking Hands series by Ellen Forney, signed first editions and other very special and very odd items. We'll also auction off dates with two of Capitol Hill's celebrity politicians, State Senator Ed Murray...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... boxer shorts signed by David Sedaris , original cartoons out of our guestbook by Matt Groening and Lynda Barry , a poster signed by Annie Leibovitz, a n original painting from the Big Fucking Hands series by Ellen Forney , signed first editions and other very special and very odd items. We'll also auction off dates with two of Capitol Hill's celebrity politicians, State Senator Ed...
The Big Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... boxer shorts signed by David Sedaris, original cartoons out of our guestbook by Matt Groening and Lynda Barry, a poster signed by Annie Leibovitz, an original painting from the Big F***ing Hands series by Ellen Forney, signed first editions and other very special and very odd items. We'll also auction off dates with two of Capitol Hill's celebrity politicians, State Sen. Ed Murray...
John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke." - Lynda Barry
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... cover and four-page cartoon spread graced last week's issue, appeared with Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Jules Feiffer, and Michael Miner for a discussion on the dire state of alternative comics. And Saturday morning, a panel of New Yorker cartoonists assembled at Thorne Auditorium in the Northwestern University School of Law. The popular Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan introduced...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... new audiences to the program," he said. For instance, the Nov. 5 conversation between cartoonists Lynda Barry and at Forum drew close to 1,900 people, the festival's highest attended program ever, with an audience that included students, parents and other groups.Flack also was encouraged by increased activity on the festival's Web site, chicagohumanities.org, where events have been...
The Daily Cartoonist (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Several stories have been filed about last weekend’s Chicago Humanities Festival featuring several notable cartoonists. The Chicago Tribune writes about New Yorker cartoonists Pat Byrnes, Edward Koren, Roz Chast and New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff about cartooning humor for The New Yorker. The Tribune also write about Jules Feiffer, Chris Ware, Lynda Barry and Matt [...]...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Everybody's gotta start somewhere.For , creator of "The Simpsons," and Lynda Barry, author of the long-running, recently defunct comic "Ernie Pook's Comeek," that somewhere was Olympia, Wash., on the Evergreen State College campus. It was there that the two were enrolled as undergrads and eventually became acquainted through the school newspaper. Groening was its editor, Barry...
