it has a very good sense of humor, however, the writer managed to make it a very melancholic sad kind of humor, which gives you mixed emotions.
As much as I appreciate theThis book was kind of brutal. "The Freddie Stories" is powerful and sad, dealing with a child's mistakes, difficulties in building and maintaining friendships, and unduly harsh punishments for errors of judgment--a sense of judgment that's never been shaped by love and guidance.Lynda Barry’s writing has a raw, manic, step-on-it-and-fly-off-the-cliff psychedelia to it that really works for me, in a very basic sense: it grabs me, engages all my senses at once, shocks me into looking and being unable to look away. "Barry remains the comics' greatest genius at depicting childhood...Bullied at school and misunderstood or simply ignored by the kids' irascible, chain-smoking mother, Freddie nevertheless possesses
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Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. It is one powerful bit o work, not unlike "Cruddy" if the protagonist had suffered a chain of mental breakdowns instead of gone on a treasure hunt.I'm sort of confused at why this book is so widely well-received.
They don't fit in with the narrative of the main collection or even the style of it. Her thoughts are emotional, brave and sometimes painful (especially so in The Freddie Stories) but when I've felt brave enough to go there with her Ive been rewarded with feeling a refreshed connection and empathy with other humans .
The stories are well-told, and I love Marlys all the more, but... poor Freddie. Cartoonist Collins’ debut graphic novel is a long, smooth fable of a man whose unkempt facial hair ravages the tidy city of Here.Here sits on an island, surrounded by the sea, separated from the far-off land of There. Welcome back.
actually pretty terrifying, sometimes. According to this TV documentary, Freddie was a man-slut who happened to play Wembley Stadium by accident one day. Reliable information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) is available from the World Health Organization (Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours.
It is fine here. Re-packaged here with a brand-new afterword from Lynda Barry, The Freddie Stories is an adult tale about just how hard it is to be a teenager, and it's classic Barry work―poignant, insightful, and true. Worried she'll fail psychology and ruin her GPA, a young college girl named Julia agrees to be the guinea pig for a secret experime..."And as for you trying to make me jealous, I wouldn't recommend it."
by A guy moved a trailer onto the empty lot by our house. Like the Simpsons” creator, Matt Groening, Barry supports her crude line drawings with her smart text, which is always hand-lettered above the picture, and often overwhelms her ugly- beautiful illustrations. But an irregular report at his inscrutable office job triggers the single hair that has always curved from Dave’s upper lip to be suddenly joined by a burst of follicles. an inner life of great beauty and terror, whose heights and depths Barry manages to encompass without ever abandoning the authentic voice of childhood. When Barry is upsetting, she's REALLY upsetting, and in such an icepick-through-the-ribs way, where you are so empathetic to her narrators their pain sears into your brain. ...
To create our lis...Here is the first new collection of Lynda Barry's nationally syndicated cartoon strip in more than five years. "The Freddie Stories", featuring sisters Marlys and Maybonne and their spunky little brother Freddie, continues Barry'sThe subject field is required. His mother is wretched and abusive and no help whatsoever then the kid starts having crazy dreams.
Enjoy!Single father Brian May can't handle his two adopted sons alone: 9 year old Freddie is independent and witty, but most of all protective about his little brother, 7 year...Violet Carter was the resident bad girl of the San Fran area, known for her ability to steal any man from their girlfriend in under an hour.
Freddie gets part of the blame and winds up in juvie which is bad enough but then the poor kid basically has a breakdown and starts seeing flaming skulls in place of everyone's heads. While he's there another boy sets fire to a house, killing a woman. the comics here are mostly about freddie, or told from his perspective, about bugs & bullies & his weird way of seeing the world.