# Emily Flake

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{{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](/source/cartoonist) and illustrator. Her work has appeared in ''[The New Yorker](/source/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](/source/The_New_York_Times)'', ''[Time](/source/Time_(magazine))'' and many other publications. Her weekly comic strip ''[Lulu Eightball](/source/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](/source/Manchester%2C_Connecticut), [Connecticut](/source/Connecticut). She now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her influences include [Winsor McCay](/source/Winsor_McCay), [Harold Gray](/source/Harold_Gray), [Shel Silverstein](/source/Shel_Silverstein), and [Bruce Eric Kaplan](/source/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](/source/Maryland_Institute_College_of_Art) in 1999.<ref name="auto"/>

==Awards==
In 2008, Flake won a [Prism Award](/source/Entertainment_Industries_Council) 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==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website}}

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