The Barry Method

Cartoonist Lynda Barry isn’t nearly as visible as she once was, but at a two-day workshop in Pittsburgh this month, her philosophy of life and art was on full display. “It involves using a random word, like “cars” or “breasts,” to summon a memory in unexpected, filmic detail; writing about it by hand for a set time period; and then not reading it or talking about it for at least a week.”