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Down the Street

, by Lynda Barry (Harper & Row, $6.95). Followers of cartoonist Lynda Barry's Ernie Pook's Comics can throw away their old, yellowed copies of the nation's alternative newspapers, where the series appears each week. Here are the prepubescent adventures and traumas of the unnamed female narrator, her icky brother Arnold, her bossy cousin Marlys and a covey of authoritarian adults-now gathered into a single volume. Barry's busy boxes and askew lines reflect the scuffed look of childhood. Her prose-and, yes, such a thing does exist in the comic-book genre-captures the ...

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