With her long braids, oversized glasses and off-kilter wit, Lynda Barry ? the groundbreaking cartoonist, creative spark and yes, Wisconsin farm girl ? is not hard to spot on the UW-Madison campus. The university?s 2012 Spring Artist in Residence, Barry is packing lecture halls and filling up Madison workshops designed to help participants dig out creativity buried since childhood. When her spring semester course ?What It Is: Manually Shifting the Image,? was announced, 92 people applied for 24 slots.
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