Lynda Barry
 Lynda Jean Barry (born January 2 1956) is an American cartoonist and author. Barry is best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. She garnered attention with her 1988 illustrated novel The Good Times are Killing Me about an interracial friendship between two young girls which was made into a play. Her second illustrated novel Cruddy appeared in 1999. Three years later she published One! Hundred! Demons! a graphic novel she terms Autobiofictionalography.