Emily Flake
Illustration — Flake at the 2025 Montclair Film Festival Emily Suzanne Flake (born June 16, 1977) is an American cartoonist and illustrator. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time and many other publications. Her weekly comic strip Lulu Eightball has appeared in numerous alternative newsweeklies since 2002.
Also recorded as Emily Suzanne Flake
Emily Flake
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- 1977
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- United States
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- cartoonist · comics artist · illustrator
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Emily Flake, recorded as an illustrator, was born on 16 June 1977.
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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.
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She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999.
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In 2008, Flake won a Prism Award for her book These things ain't gonna smoke themselves.
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- 1.goodreads.com. Goodreads author page for Emily Flake.
- 2.Flake, Emily. Visions of the Post-Pandemic Future (Revised). The New Yorker. 2021-03-29. 0028-792X.
- 3.Lulu. Emily Flake.
- 4.The Baltimore Sun. Briefly, illustratrix of 'Lulu' is back in town.
- 5.Press, Carl DiOrio, The Associated. 'The Simpsons' among Prism honorees. April 24, 2008.
- 6.Author Emily Flake win the Comic Book or Graphic Novel Award for. News Photo - Getty Images.
- 7.Flake, Emily. Emily Flake | Narrative Magazine. www.narrativemagazine.com. January 28, 2009.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Flake, Emily-->. Lulu Eightball. Atomic Book Company. 2006.
- Flake, Emily. These things ain't gonna smoke themselves : a love hate love hate love letter to a very bad habit. Bloomsbury. 2007.
- Flake, Emily. Lulu Eightball : volume 2. Atomic Book Company. 2009.
- Grand Central Publishing. Mama Tried: Dispatches from the Seamy Underbelly of Modern Parenting. 2015.
- Flake, Emily. That was awkward : the art and etiquette of the awkward hug. Viking. 2019. 9781984879585.
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