Have you ever wondered why a lot of the supposedly awkward characters you see in movies and on TV and in the pages of books are just not as painfully shy and strange and wonderfully weird and totally, heartbreakingly dorky as you know real people to be? The eight-year-old Marlys, a character that sprung from the beautiful mind of artist and author Lynda Barry, is precisely that awkward. Today, Barry’s collection of Marlys’s adventures, The Greatest of Marlys, hits bookstores, and we have a few of its pages for you to flip through and fall in love with.
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