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Emily Suzanne Flake (born June 16, 1977)[1] is an American cartoonist and illustrator. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker,[2] The New York Times, Time and many other publications. Her weekly comic strip Lulu Eightball has appeared in numerous alternative newsweeklies since 2002.[3]
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[4]
She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999.[4]
In 2008, Flake won a Prism Award for her book These things ain't gonna smoke themselves.[5][6][7]
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- Lulu Eightball. Atomic Book Company. 2006.
- These things ain't gonna smoke themselves : a
lovehatelovehateloveletter to a very bad habit. New York: Bloomsbury. 2007. - Lulu Eightball : volume 2. Atomic Book Company. 2009.
- Mama Tried: Dispatches from the Seamy Underbelly of Modern Parenting (Grand Central Publishing, 2015)
- That was awkward : the art and etiquette of the awkward hug. New York: Viking. 2019. ISBN 9781984879585.
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