THE FREDDIE STORIES : With the Great Marlys and Sister Maybonne

Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Books, 1999. Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Lynda Barry (Author & Cartoonist). Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. COVER ART: Freddie, Marlys & , Maybonne. Award winning American cartoonist, author & teacher Lynda Barry (1956 -), now teaches Interdisciplinary Creativity at the Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, is known for her semi-biographical, nationally syndicated comic strip, Ernie Pook's Comeek, featured in alt-weekly newspapers from the late 1980's through 2008, relating the beloved scrappy, red-headed, prepubescent girl journeys-through-life w/her mother-like-no-other, her crazy-groovy-teenage-sister Maybonne, her odd-sensitive- strange- little brother Freddie, a host of cousins & friends (and enemies) in the 'hood" of an early 1960's suburb. 123 pgs, which Marlys Mullen devotes to her brother Freddie, whom she says: "...not a rank on my brother to say he has certain mental disorders known as emotional problems and he is often called a fag and has had to run for his life on many occasions. He is a gentle person and this is a juvenile delinquency world. He is Sagittarius and sometimes quite of freakster." An unusual child, and the best brother of all times to Marlys. Tales of a non-conformist teenager surrounded by conforming teens.