| Liana Finck | |
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 Finck in 2018 | |
| Born | 1986 (age 38–39) |
| Nationality | American |
Notable works | The Bintel Brief Passing for Human Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self |
| Awards | Fulbright 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]
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]
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.
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]
Finck is Jewish and lives in New York City. [13]
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