It depicts life as harsh but occasionally joyful. While Barry's work is humorous, the undertones are usually serious. When she was 23, the Chicago Reader picked up her comic strip, enabling her to make a living from her comics alone. Career in comics Īfter graduating from Evergreen she moved to Seattle. At The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington she met fellow cartoonist Matt Groening, who first published "Ernie Pook's Comeek" in the school paper without her knowledge. She went to the same high school as artist Charles Burns. Neither of Barry′s parents attended her graduation. By age 16, Barry was working nightly as a janitor at a Seattle hospital while still attending high school. Barry′s parents divorced when she was 12, the same year in which Barry changed the spelling of her name from “Linda” to “Lynda”. Barry hints that her childhood was very unhappy. She attended Kimball Elementary School on Seattle's Beacon Hill and used some of her experiences there as an inspiration for her work. She is one quarter-Filipina, half Irish (each parent is half Irish), and one quarter Norwegian. Born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, Barry moved as a child to Washington.
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