nearsightedmonkeybook.jpgMedia Release -- D+Q has acquired world rights to two all-new Lynda Barry books, The Near Sighted Monkey Book: Picture This, and a prose novel, Birdis, it was announced today by Chris Oliveros, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Drawn & Quarterly. The Near Sighted Monkey Book: Picture This is the creative drawing companion to Barry's Eisner and R.R. Donnelly Literary award-winning and bestselling comics memoir/creative writing book What It Is. Birdis is Barry's first prose novel since Cruddy and D+Q's second ever prose novel. Barry is also the author of 100! Demons!, The Greatest of Marlys and The Good Times Are Killing Me, which won the Washington State Governor's Award.

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