![]() ![]() ![]() The semi-autobiographical vignettes of this new work, originally serialized in Salon, follow the same basic format as the strip: blocks of enthusiastic first-person commentary at the top of each panel, squiggly, childlike-but stylized-drawings and dizzy word-balloon dialogue between the characters. Childhood's cruelties and pleasures, remembered in luminous, unsparing detail, have become the central topic of her work. Knows, Barry has a pitch-perfect sense of the way kids talk and think. ![]() As anyone who's read her comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek ![]()
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