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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 30, 1988
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FICTION
Down the Street
, by Lynda Barry (Harper & Row, $6.95). Followers of cartoonist
Lynda Barry's Ernie Pook's Comics can throw away their old, yellowed
copies of the nation's alternative newspapers, where the series
appears each week. Here are the prepubescent adventures and traumas
of the unnamed female narrator, her icky brother Arnold, her bossy
cousin Marlys and a covey of authoritarian adults-now gathered into a
single volume. Barry's busy boxes and askew lines reflect the
scuffed look of childhood. Her prose-and, yes, such a thing does
exist in the comic-book genre-captures the idiom of the playground.
One student ends his report on a beaver book by drawing a critter and ...