Say Congrats to Vanessa and Lynda in Brooklyn today!

For their glowing New York Times Book Reviews in tomorrow's Holiday Books issue. Jennifer McDonald on Lynda:

"More than once, to get you started, Barry offers templates of a bunny, a bat, a bird and a pair of I-don’t-know-whats, urging the reader to cut, copy, trace, color and paste. “No!” you might say. “I wouldn’t dare defile a book as bewitching as this.” But then you realize: were Barry in the room, she’d probably hand you the scissors herself."

Douglas Wolk on Vanessa Davis:

"It’s proudly girly, chatty and frequently hilarious. Davis’s subjects are herself, her friends and the small pleasures and occasional irritations of her day-to-day existence. ...Her artwork is doodly and gestural; she doesn’t bother much with panel borders, and her characters look as if they’ve been molded from careful observation, then squished flat onto the page."

If you can't make the Brooklyn fest, then be sure to read Lynda's interview with Nicole Rudick in the Paris Review.

Or, this Wall Street Journal article on the festival by my good pal Bruce Bennett with quotes from Charles, Adrian and Lynda.

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