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Emily Flake

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Flake at the 2025 Montclair Film Festival

Emily Suzanne Flake (born June 16, 1977)[1] is an American cartoonist and illustrator. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker,[2] The New York Times, Time and many other publications. Her weekly comic strip Lulu Eightball has appeared in numerous alternative newsweeklies since 2002.[3]

Personal life

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Flake was born in Manchester, Connecticut. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her influences include Winsor McCay, Harold Gray, Shel Silverstein, and Bruce Eric Kaplan.[4]

Education

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She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999.[4]

Awards

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In 2008, Flake won a Prism Award for her book These things ain't gonna smoke themselves.[5][6][7]

Bibliography

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  • Lulu Eightball. Atomic Book Company. 2006.
  • These things ain't gonna smoke themselves : a love hate love hate love letter to a very bad habit. New York: Bloomsbury. 2007.
  • Lulu Eightball : volume 2. Atomic Book Company. 2009.
  • Mama Tried: Dispatches from the Seamy Underbelly of Modern Parenting. Grand Central Publishing. 2015.
  • That was awkward : the art and etiquette of the awkward hug. New York: Viking. 2019. ISBN 9781984879585.

References

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  1. "Goodreads author page for Emily Flake". goodreads.com.
  2. Flake, Emily (2021-03-29). "Visions of the Post-Pandemic Future (Revised)". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  3. "Lulu". Emily Flake.
  4. 1 2 "Briefly, illustratrix of 'Lulu' is back in town". The Baltimore Sun.
  5. Press, Carl DiOrio, The Associated; DiOrio, Carl; Press, The Associated (April 24, 2008). "'The Simpsons' among Prism honorees".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. "Author Emily Flake win the Comic Book or Graphic Novel Award for... News Photo - Getty Images". Archived from the original on 2024-06-12. Retrieved 2026-06-28.
  7. Flake, Emily (January 28, 2009). "Emily Flake | Narrative Magazine". www.narrativemagazine.com.
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