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  • When I was a teenager, I checked out a Lynda Barry collection of Marlys-Maybonne-Freddie Stories from the school library. The stories were mostly about Maybonne, and in particular contained a storyline where she fooled around with a Vietnam veteran in a car. What (likely out of print) collection am I remembering? It's not It's So Magic, another Maybonne heavy collection. In fact, looking at her bibliography (according to Wikipedia, which could obviously be missing one) I don't even see any likely suspects. Girls and Boys not a Marlys-Maybonne-Freddy collection AFAIK Big Ideas not a Marlys-Maybonne-Freddy collection Everything in the World not a Marlys-Maybonne-Freddy collection AFAIK Down the Street own it, not it The Fun House own it, not it The Good Times Are Killing Me not a Marlys-Maybonne-Freddy collection Come Over, Come Over own it, not it My Perfect Life own it, not it It's So Magic own it, not it The Freddie Stories own it, not it Cruddy not a Marlys-Maybonne-Freddy collection The Greatest of Marlys does not contain storyline I describe One! Hundred! Demons! not a Marlys-Maybonne-Freddy collection What It Is not a Marlys-Maybonne-Freddy collection Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book not a Marlys-Maybonne-Freddy collection Blabber Blabber Blabber: Volume 1 of Everything Don't own it yet; does it contain the storyline I describe? Do you have any memory of the book I'm talking about? Any fellow Lynda Barry megafans out there? Did I imagine this storyline I've never seen in any of the other books? Do I just shut up and wait until D&Q finishes their collections of everything she's done (which is more beat poodle comics than I need to own, but whatever)?

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    In "My Perfect Life", there's a sequence in which Maybonne is taking a bus home and makes out with "Tony. An 18 year old soldier from Wallace Idaho." She tells him her name is Pam and "I gave him lied details about my life." They make out all through North Dakota. They then get off the bus together and he tries car doors until he finds an unlocked one that they get into. It doesn't say anything about him being a Vietnam vet but he is a soldier and they do make out. Quite a bit.

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OK, I wrote LB and she says: ** "My Perfect Life" would be the one with a longer strip called "The Most Obvious Question" where she does mess around with someone but he's not a Vietnam Vet. She does write a series of letters to a soldier in Vietnam. These strips were done at the time of the first Gulf War with the first George Bush and I'm not sure they were ever collected into a book. I should be able to remember but after doing 30 years worth of weekly strips I forget what I've done. Hope this helps!

escabeche

Are you sure it's a Maybonne collection and not 100 demons? It seems a bit late (were you in high school in '05?) but I could have sworn there was a vietnam vet story in there.

PhoBWanKenobi

Okay, damn, just checked my copy and that seems to not be it. There's a comic about a hippie fest where a creepy hippie propositions her, but it's not right. But I remember this, too. Harumph.

PhoBWanKenobi

It is definitely not 100 Demons, which I own and have read recently. Man, maybe I am imagining it.

Juliet Banana

Are you positive it's not It's So Magic? I could have sworn there's something about a boyfriend in Vietnam in that one.

Wretch729

From the amazon.com summary for http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060950463/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/: "reading Cindy's letters from a former boyfriend, a high-school dropout now in the army in Vietnam"

bunderful

The only Lynda Barry book missing from your bibliography is Naked Ladies Naked Ladies Naked Ladies, which isn't an Ernie Pook compliation either. The plotline in question about has to be in one of the books listed above.

1970s Antihero

In It's So Magic, there's a correspondance with a solider in Vietnam. The storyline I'm thinking of involves Maybonne taking drugs or getting drunk and breaking into a parked car to have sex with a solider who is back in the USA. I'm a little blurry on details because it's been ten years, but not that blurry. Apparently there's another book called Shake a Tailfeather but I can't find anything about it. A lot of these books are out of print and the book I'm thinking of is likely not in the list above.

Juliet Banana

Using the "Look Inside" feature on Amazon's web site for http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1617032352/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/, I don't see anything called Shake a Tailfeather on the bibliography page.

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