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Monday, October 26, 2009 UNI to host next Hearst Lecture, Nov. 9 CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Noted cartoonist Lynda Barry will discuss her autobiographical collages and comic strips at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 9, Room 111, in the Kamerick Art Building on the University of Northern Iowa campus, as part of the Meryl Norton Hearst Lecture Series. The event is free and open to the public.
Barry is an artist and author who has been described as "one of the most successful non-mainstream American cartoonists." She is best known for her weekly comic strip "Ernie Pook's Comeek," which she began more than 30 years ago. Barry studied at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., where she became good friends with "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening.
She is the author of several books, including "The Good Times Are Killing Me." Later adapted as an off-Broadway musical, the novel focuses on the emotional world of children through the friendship of two girls, one black and one white. She is also the author of "What It Is," a graphic novel that is part memoir, part collage and part workbook, which won the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.
For more information, contact Darrell Taylor, director of the UNI Gallery of Art, at (319) 273-6134 or Darrell.Taylor@uni.edu
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