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The Greatest of Marlys!

by Lynda Barry

Hardcover, 248 pages, Farrar Straus & Giroux, List Price: $22.95 |

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Reprints a collection of sweetly squirm-inducing comics about the irrepressible Marlys Mullen, one of the stars of Lynda Barry's long-running Ernie Pook's Comeek.

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'Marlys' Collection Dips Back Into Lynda Barry's Sweet, Squirmy World

August 16, 2016 • Drawn & Quarterly has reissued a compilation of strips from Lynda Barry's Ernie Pook's Comeek, starring irrepressible eight-year-old Marlys Mullen. Barry's sweeping lines are instantly recognizable.