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

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781570611063
ISBN: 1570611068
Label: Sasquatch Books
Manufacturer: Sasquatch Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: January 09, 2002
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Sales Rank: 367827
Studio: Sasquatch Books

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Here is the first new collection of Lynda Barry's nationally syndicated cartoons in three years. The Freddie Stories, featuring sisters Marlys and Maybonne and their spunky little brother Freddie, continues Barry's brilliant, raw, and original exploration of youth, coming of age, friendship, attitude, and being in the world.

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The Freddie Stories is a collection of strips from Lynda Barry's weekly cartoon, Ernie Pook's Comeek. As the title suggests, all the strips feature Freddie, a gentle misfit and self-described 'fag' who goes through a wrenching year. Though Barry's drawing style is whimsical and her protagonists are kids, this is definitely not a book for young children. The haunting--and sometimes downright disturbing--stories cover everything from the fluid nature of friendships to special ed. class to arson. Not only do Freddie's peers misunderstand him, his mother is cold and distant and makes no secret of the fact that she dislikes him. Tough odds, but luckily Freddie has his exuberant sister, Marlys, to help him through. Though the bright spots in The Freddie Stories are few and far between, it's a nearly impossible book to put down once you've started it. Barry's young characters are as painfully real as her drawings are hypnotic. --Ali Davis

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- Gets real without being a total downer...the magic is there.
I avoided this book for years, even though I'm a Lynda Barry fan, because I was afraid it would be too wrenching.

But I finally got up the guts to take it down off the shelf. I took it on a weekend retreat with me, and even after I'd read it all the way through I kept looking at it all weekend. The way the language and the lettering and the pictures all went together. The story it told.

Bad things happen to Freddie, definitely. He ends up with some mental problems, as noted matter-of-factly by Marlys. He does not have the most supportive environment in the world, but he does have allies. And he has a voice, the voice of this book. Under Lynda Barry's fingers, that's enough for this to be a book of hope and beauty, no matter how dark it gets.

The book is made of several stories, each happening over multiple four-panel spreads. Altogether it is the story of a year in Freddie's ... Read More

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- my favorite of the lynda barry canon
The Freddie Stories is my favorite of all The Funk Queen of the U.S.A.'s work, and that INCLUDES 100 Demons--no small feat. Barry's masterful handling of some very dark subject matter floored me.

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- Tragic, Poetic
I've been a big fan of Lynda Barry's cartoon-format books. This is certainly the darkest, most poignant one. It deals with the character Freddy,an odd child who tries to cope with his outcast status by boldly embracing his oddness and eccentricities. However, as is the case with all of Lynda Barry's cartoon books, the theme that people can be cruel and exploitative of weakness, particularly in childhood, takes over. The mother, who obviously suffers from an undiagnosed major depression, takes out her life's discontent on him; a sadistic classmate and an unsympathetic teacher further poor Freddie's descent into mental illness, which becomes fully manifest after recovery from a near-fatal illness (which, to drive home the point about the complete lack of love and attention this child so desperately needed, occurred because his babysitting sister was too busy getting stoned to realize he was falling into unconsciousness ... Read More

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- What a great and scary place the world is...
It is hard to write a review of a Lynda Barry novel that would do justice the greatness she puts in her books. All Barry's characters are full of life and life problems, some more optimistic than others. The Freddie Stories is a collection of comic strips in the same world as The! Greatest! Of! Marlys! It is much darker than the novel about Marlys and her shining personality. Although it made me cry at the end at the saddness of humanity (and all cheesy phrases like this), The Freddie Stories is an excellent read, once again dazzling with Barry's art, wit, and humor. A must read for Lynda Barry's fans.

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