In this collection of 20 comic strips, Lynda Barry wrestles with some of hers in her signature quirky, irrepressible voice. Like the title, Barry divulges into instances from her life that could be considered a demon, or something negative. Barry’s novel is similar to Kochalka’s series, American Elf since her life is the main plot and focus. Lev Grossman, Time Inspired by a sixteenth-century Zen monk’s painting of a hundred demons chasing each other across a long scroll, acclaimed cartoonist Lynda Barry confronts various demons from her life in seventeen full-color vignettes. One hundred demons Author: Lynda Barry Summary: Buddhism teaches that each person must overcome 100 demons in a lifetime. For this paper, I read the graphic novel, One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry. The whole thing is overflowing with quirks, strangeness and charm, and makes palpable Barry's affection for her students and the act of art making itself. Lynda Barry One Hundred Demons You’ll wonder how anything can be so sad and so funny at the same time. The core of the book, though, explains the “writing the unthinkable” technique it's narrated by a sea monster and stars a “magic cephalopod.” Finally, Barry shows us a sheaf of her note pad, the pages she fills with doodles and spare phrases while she's working on a “real” project they are, naturally, as vivid and radiantly eccentric as everything else here. The first and longest section is a bizarre and hilarious memoir of Barry's creative impulses: how they developed when she was a child, how they flickered and faded when she started asking herself “Is this good?” and “Does this suck?” and how they returned when she learned to escape that trap. It's part cartooning, part handwritten text, part ornate multimedia collage (with heartbreaking pieces of decades-old school papers and words snipped out of old textbooks)-all three appear on almost every page, most of which Barry constructed by decorating every available space on ruled yellow notebook paper. This brilliant, beautiful, nearly uncategorizable book is a print version of Barry's famous seminar “Writing the Unthinkable” a class about writing from “images,” recollected or imagined moments.