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
Montclair Film · CC BY 4.0
- Born
- 1977
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- cartoonist · comics artist · illustrator
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
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.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Emily Flake. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q5372166 · wikipedia · Emily Flake
In this article
Personal life
Personal life
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.
Education
Education
She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999.
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Emily Flake”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q5372166: Emily Flake
General reference · Wikidata
Awards
In 2008, Flake won a Prism Award for her book These things ain't gonna smoke themselves.
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Comics and comic art
9,920 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Émile BravoArtist
- Émile CohlArtist
- Emile MercierArtist
- Emilios HatjoullisArtist
- Emma AdbågeArtist
- Emma KunzArtist
- Emma RendelArtist
- Emma RíosArtist
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Emily Flake?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.