Cartoonist, novelist, and playwright Lynda Barry is the creator behind the syndicated strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek featuring the incomparable Marlys and Freddy, as well as the Alex Award-winning One Hundred Demons and The Good Times are Killing Me (also adapted as an off-Broadway musical). Barry’s new book, What It Is, includes drawings, comics, collages, autobiographical sections and gentle creative guidance exploring the inner and outer realms of creation and imagination.