/ sit there and then the title. Then When Lynda Barry’s comic strips “Two Sisters” and Ernie Pook” first appeared in Fresh Weekly overayearago, i was, like a lot of people, immediately hooked. Barry’s work has gained her a small legion of admirers — in Seattle, where her comics have appeared in The Sun, the University of Washington Daily, and currently in The Rocket — and in Chicago, where they are a regular feature of the Chicago Reader. Her recent show of paintings at Seattle’s Rosco Louie Gallery, The Ten Commandments, sold out the first day. Her new book, Boys + Girls, due in October, is sure to create a host of new Barry-fans. There was something in Lynda Barry’s comics that I hadn’t seen anywhere else, and I found myself wanting to meet her, to talk with her and find out who she was. Thus I found myself on the train to Seattle. The following conversation took place at the Bell Town Cafe over dinner. Dinner CSQ: Well, tell me about the “Two Sisters. ” Lynda: Gross! CSQ: You don’t have any sisters. Lynda: No. “Two Sisters.’’ Let’s see. Oh, I was doing a comic strip for the Seattle Sun called “Spinal Comics." It was about cactuses, (laughs) Stupid?.... Anyway, I ran out of jokes about cactuses, so I had to come up with a new comic strip and I thought that doing one about little girls would be good. CSQ: Well, what happened to the “Two Sisters”? Lynda: When I make a comic strip I draw the border of the first frameON I CALL 4 Clinton St. Quarterly Photos by Jim Blashfield
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