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Liana Finck
Finck in 2018
Born1986 (age 37–38)
NationalityAmerican

Notable works

The Bintel Brief
Passing for Human
Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self
AwardsFulbright Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists
https://lianafinck.com/

Liana Finck is an American cartoonist and author. She is the author of Passing for Human and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

Finck grew up in Chester, NY[2] and studied fine art and graphic design at The Cooper Union in New York City, graduating in 2008.[3] She earned a Fulbright Fellowship to travel to Belgium and research Georges Remi, the cartoonist and creator of Tintin.[4]

Career[edit]

Finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2015 and maintains a monthly advice column comic called Dear Pepper.[1] She appears in Very Semi-Serious, an HBO documentary about New Yorker cartoonists. The film follows Finck's early meetings with Bob Mankoff, then cartoon editor for The New Yorker, through the triumph of her first sale.[5]

She has been an artist-in-residence at the New York Foundation for the Arts, Tablet, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center. She has also contributed to The Huffington Post, The Modern Golem, The Awl, and Catapult.[3]

She regularly posts her drawings to her Instagram account, which has over 600,000 followers.[6]

She drew the cover of the Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber single Stuck with U.[7]

She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023.

Books[edit]

She received a grant from the Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists, and used the funds to create her first graphic novel, A Bintel Brief, published in 2014. The book is a collection of short stories based on early 20th-century letters written to a Yiddish advice column of the same name.[8]

Her graphic memoir Passing For Human was published in September 2018. Vogue described the book as "a bildungsroman about an artist trying to understand her lifelong compulsion to make art."[9][10]

She published Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self, a collection of comics, in September 2019.[1] In April 2022, Finck published Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation, a graphic novel which reworks the Book of Genesis and features a female God.[11]

Let There Be Light was longlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction in 2023.[12]

Personal life[edit]

Finck is Jewish and lives in New York City.[13]

Selected works[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Liana Finck". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  • ^ Josefin Dolsten (November 23, 2018). "New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck draws on the light and shadows of her Jewish upbringing". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Archived from the original on November 17, 2019.
  • ^ a b "Resume". Issuu. March 15, 2013. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  • ^ "Liana Finck | Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  • ^ "Very Semi-Serious Takes a Very Charming Look at the World of Cartooning". Vogue. December 9, 2015. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  • ^ "Liana finck (@lianafinck) • Instagram photos and videos". www.instagram.com. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  • ^ "The "Stuck With U" Cover Art Was Drawn by a New Yorker Cartoonist". W Magazine. May 8, 2020. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
  • ^ Morgenstern-Clarren, Rachel (October 29, 2014). "Interview with Liana Finck". Words Without Borders. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  • ^ "In a New Graphic Memoir, Liana Finck Reminds Us Why Her Cartoons Are Some of the Best Things On Instagram". Vogue. September 18, 2018. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  • ^ Rachel Cooke (September 18, 2018). "Passing for Human review". Guardian. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  • ^ Goldstein, Rebecca Newberger (April 11, 2022). "Liana Finck Imagines a Female God, in Her Own Image". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  • ^ Deborah Dundas, "5 Canadians nominated for first Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for women and non-binary writers, worth $150,000 (U.S.)". Toronto Star, March 8. 2023.
  • ^ "Liana Finck". Headlands Center for the Arts. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  • ^ "A Bintel Brief – Liana Finck – Paperback". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. October 29, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  • ^ "Passing for Human by Liana Finck: 9780525508922 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  • ^ "Excuse Me by Liana Finck: 9781984801517 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved September 26, 2019.

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