{{Short description|American cartoonist and illustrator}} thumb|right|Flake at the 2025 Montclair Film Festival '''Emily Suzanne Flake''' (born June 16, 1977)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/539239.Emily_Flake|title=Goodreads author page for Emily Flake|publisher=goodreads.com}}</ref> is an American cartoonist and illustrator. Her work has appeared in ''The New Yorker'',<ref>{{Cite news |last=Flake |first=Emily |date=2021-03-29 |title=Visions of the Post-Pandemic Future (Revised) |language=en-US |work=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/05/visions-of-the-post-pandemic-future |access-date=2023-07-13 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> ''The New York Times'', ''Time'' and many other publications. Her weekly comic strip ''Lulu Eightball'' has appeared in numerous alternative newsweeklies since 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emilyflake.com/lulu/|title=Lulu|work=Emily Flake}}</ref>

==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.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2007-09-18-0709180013-story.html|title=Briefly, illustratrix of 'Lulu' is back in town|publisher=The Baltimore Sun}}</ref>

==Education== She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999.<ref name="auto"/>

==Awards== In 2008, Flake won a Prism Award for her book ''These things ain't gonna smoke themselves''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/simpsons-prism-honorees-110219/|title='The Simpsons' among Prism honorees|first1=Carl DiOrio, The Associated|last1=Press|first2=Carl|last2=DiOrio|first3=The Associated|last3=Press|date=April 24, 2008}}</ref><ref>https://www.gettyimages.no/detail/news-photo/author-emily-flake-win-the-comic-book-or-graphic-novel-news-photo/80854045 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/emily-flake|title=Emily Flake &#124; Narrative Magazine|first=Emily|last=Flake|date=January 28, 2009|website=www.narrativemagazine.com}}</ref>

==Bibliography== {{Incomplete list|date=March 2020}}{{bots|deny=Citation bot}}

* {{cite book <!--|author=Flake, Emily--> |title=Lulu Eightball |publisher=Atomic Book Company |year=2006}} * {{cite book <!--|author=Flake, Emily |author-mask=1--> |title=These things ain't gonna smoke themselves : a <s>love</s> <s>hate</s> <s>love</s> <s>hate</s> <s>love</s> letter to a very bad habit |location=New York |publisher=Bloomsbury |year=2007 <!--isbn=9781596913288-->}} * {{cite book <!--|author=Flake, Emily |author-mask=1--> |title=Lulu Eightball : volume 2 |publisher=Atomic Book Company |year=2009}} * {{cite book |title=Mama Tried: Dispatches from the Seamy Underbelly of Modern Parenting |publisher=Grand Central Publishing |year=2015}} * {{cite book <!--|author=Flake, Emily |author-mask=1--> |title=That was awkward : the art and etiquette of the awkward hug |location=New York |publisher=Viking |year=2019 |isbn=9781984879585}}

==References== {{reflist}}

== External links == * {{Official website}}

{{authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Flake, Emily}} Category:American women comics artists Category:American women comics writers Category:Living people Category:1977 births Category:The New Yorker cartoonists Category:American women editorial cartoonists Category:People from Manchester, Connecticut Category:Artists from Connecticut Category:American editorial cartoonists Category:Maryland Institute College of Art alumni Category:21st-century American artists Category:21st-century American women artists

{{US-cartoonist-stub}}