Liana Finck

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Liana Finck
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Finck in 2018
Born1986
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 career[]

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]

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.[5]

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."[6][7]

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.[8]

She has been an artist-in-residence at the New York Foundation for the Arts, Tablet, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the . 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 550,000 followers.[9]

Her latest book, Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self, is a collection of comics and was published in September 2019.[1]

She drew the cover of the Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber single Stuck with U.[10]

Personal life[]

Finck is Jewish and lives in New York City.[11]

Selected works[]

  • A Bintel Brief, published by Ecco Press. April 15, 2014. ISBN 9780062291615.[12]
  • Passing for Human, published by Penguin Random House. Sep 18, 2018. ISBN 9780525508922.[13]
  • Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self, published by Penguin Random House. Sep 24, 2019. ISBN 9781984801517.[14]


References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Liana Finck". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  2. ^ Josefin Dolsten. "New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck draws on the light and shadows of her Jewish upbringing". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Archived from the original on 17 November 2019.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Resume". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  4. ^ "Liana Finck | Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  5. ^ Morgenstern-Clarren, Rachel. "Interview with Liana Finck". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  6. ^ "In a New Graphic Memoir, Liana Finck Reminds Us Why Her Cartoons Are Some of the Best Things On Instagram". Vogue. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  7. ^ Rachel Cooke (18 September 2018). "Passing for Human review". Guardian. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Very Semi-Serious Takes a Very Charming Look at the World of Cartooning". Vogue. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  9. ^ "Liana finck (@lianafinck) • Instagram photos and videos". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  10. ^ "The "Stuck With U" Cover Art Was Drawn by a New Yorker Cartoonist". W Magazine. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  11. ^ "Liana Finck". Headlands Center for the Arts. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  12. ^ "A Bintel Brief - Liana Finck - Paperback". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  13. ^ "Passing for Human by Liana Finck: 9780525508922 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  14. ^ "Excuse Me by Liana Finck: 9781984801517 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
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