One Hundred Demons collects a series of memoiristic strips that appeared in Salon�s popular �Mothers Who Think� section. Here are 20 stories told in Lynda Barry�s distinctive cartoon-narrative style that delve into the funk and sweetness of love, family, adolescence, race and the 'hood, identity � all the forces that made her the "wreck" she is today. Barry distinguishes these stories with her pitch-perfect sense of the way young people talk and think and her ability to casually render childhood�s cruelties in luminous, unsparing detail. From her nattering and intolerant/loving Filipina grandmother to the ex-boyfriend from hell who had lice, One Hundred Demons paints a memorable picture of a gifted girl whose life is intersected by a cast of crazies. Hailed for its shimmering watercolor images and called by Time magazine �a work of art as well as literature,� this collection makes an important addition to the genre Barry has sardonically christened �autobiofictionalography.�