Excerpts from a Lynda Barry timelime:
1956- born, Richland Center, Wisconsin
1977 – Evergreen State College
1979 – Ernie Pook’s Comeek begins (deets here)
1983 – Big Ideas
1986 – Everything in the World
1988 – The Fun House, The Good Times Are Killing Me, and Down The Street. Interview in the NYT and discussing Girls Girls Girls from Comic Book Confidential
1988 – Naked Ladies, Naked Ladies Coloring Book – Letterman appearances 1 – 2
1989 – Shake, Shake, Shake A Tail Feather, The Comics Journal interview
1990 – Come Over, Come Over
1991 – Heap Big Dysfunctional World (with Heather McAdams) The Good Times Are Killing Me off Broadway production
1992 – My Perfect Life
1993 – The Lynda Barry Experience (audio) and Washington Post interview
1994 – It’s So Magic
1999 – The Freddie Stories and Cruddy
2000 – The Greatest of Marlys
2002 – One! Hundred! Demons!
2007 – Lynda Barry Free Comic Book Day Activity Book Special
2008 – What It Is and editor of Best American Comics also the end of Ernie Pook’s Comeek
2009 – Picture This: The Near Sighted Monkey Book
2011 – (Blabber Blabber Blabber) Everything Volume 1: Collected and Uncollected Comics from Around 1978-1982, New York Times interview
2012 – University of Chicago COMICS SUMMIT, (highlights here) Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass by Susan Kirtley
2014 – Syllabus
2016 – inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, is named Chazen Family Distinguished Chair in Art, University of Wisconsin Madison, Graphic Medicine Conference Keynote, Dundee, Ireland
2017 – Lynda works with Michael Green at PSU. Creates a series of teaching videos, including this one
2019 – Awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant (their video) and Making Comics, Barry on the CBC , United States Artists Fellowship
2020 – Bullseye with Jesse Thorn interview and the Reuben Award (ceremony online, speech here) Design Matters Podcast, Vox interview
2021 – Oregon State University Stone Award for Literary Achievement, 50 Views of Marlys Coloring Book, Graphic Medicine’s Drawing Together #22
2022 – New York Times interview, Contagious Imagination: The Work and Art of Lynda Barry
2023 – Beloit College Mackey Chair in Creative Writing
2024 – “A Room Alive” documentary about Lynda’s comics room screened at the Wisconsin Film Festival