The Freddie Stories: With the Great Marlys! and Sister Maybonne | Lynda Barry

The Freddie Stories: With the Great Marlys! and Sister Maybonne | Lynda Barry | Not exactly a laugh-a-minute, but still wonderful!!

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	The Freddie Stories: With the Great Marlys! and Sister Maybonne Lynda Barry Sasquatch Books, 2002 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 23 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Move over, Esther Greenwood! Here comes Freddie.

Lynda Barry's latest collection of comics is about a character we've met only briefly in her past books. Freddie is a gay (or, in his own words, El Fagatastico) adolescent who lives through a couple of truly unspeakable horrors. He witnesses death and abandonment, surrounded by hateful cousins, controlling friends, his drugged-out sister Maybonne (who, with any luck, will be the star of another book of her own sometime soon) and an unloving mother. His only ally is one of my favorite Lynda Barry characters, his gifted sister Marlys. These stories are as engaging and moving as any I've ever read. It's a cliche, but I have to say it: I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me.

I first picked up a Lynda Barry book back in 1988, when I was a senior in high school. I didn't quite understand the comics, but they fascinated me. As I grew older I started to understand her more and more, and now I can honestly say that nobody else can write characters with whom I can identify quite like Ms. Barry. Keep churning them out, Lynda!

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Not exactly a laugh-a-minute, but still wonderful!!

I admit I bought this book expecting it to be along the same lines as Lynda Barry's (weekly?) work....quirky, funny, and occasionally bittersweet. Still, even though it's a bit different, I loved it immensely! How does she remember so well what it's like to be an oddball kid?? I'm 19, and already I catch myself trying to forget...my favorite was the one where Freddie talks about being half-awake, half-dreaming early in the morning......If anyone sees Lynda, tell her "right on" from Alyssa!

Viva El Fagtastico!!

This book is dark and delicious. An aquired taste to be sure, but I loved every page. Gritty stuff from an artist who remembers how much childhood does suck! Viva Lynda!

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