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Looked Into
"The Sarah Silverman of Cartoons": Emily Flake Gets Her Portrait Done
Filed under: Looked Into Tagged: Alex Ross, cartoons, comics, Emily Flake, letters, medicine, Tim Page
Rob Hiaasen at the Baltimore Sun, who's got a solid, Emdashes-approved history of covering New Yorker-related stuff, wrote a good profile of Emily Flake, whose endearingly nihilistic comics of love and shame, or love of shame, or shameful love, can sort of be described (and Hiassen does a bang-up job), but should mainly be seen. Update: Disturbingly, the paper's site seems to be temporarily down, so use this for now.
Also, if you're following that letter to the editor from John Yohalem, who wrote in to update readers on his state of mind, residence, and solvency (he's just fine) after reading Tim Page's recent story about life with Asberger's, you'll want to read this entertaining little chat about it. Also, in addition to his other good qualities, Alex Ross has a sense of humor.
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A few clips
- Report: Learning to read with comic books edited by Françoise Mouly (for Print)
- Interview: Designer Eleanor Grosch (for Print)
- Review: Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis (for Newsday)
- Review: The King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Review: Does The New Republic's recent redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Proposal: A more attractive MetroCard (for A Brief Message)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Report: Eustace Tilley spruces up for The New Yorker's website redesign (for Print)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands (for Print)
- Review: books about various New Yorker cartoonists by Liza Donnelly and Iain Topliss (for Newsday)
- Profile: screenwriter and novelist Joe Keenan (for Newsday)
- Review: The Complete New Yorker (for Print)
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Emdashes—like em dashes—emphasizes what’s between: in particular, between the lines, covers, and issues of a magazine close to our hearts.
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The Rossosphere
- Mick Stevens: I Really Should Be Drawing
- Resistance Is Fertile
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- Newyorkette
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- Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
- Paul Noth's Pale Force
- The New Yorker Magazine in the 1930s
- Link to suggest? Email it!
- I Hate the New Yorker
- Blog About Town
- Ben Yagoda's homepage
- Modern Spectator
- New Yorker Anti-Caption Contest
- Silence of the City
- Cartoonist Michael Maslin's homepage
- Chiasmus in The New Yorker
Comments
Yes, one must be careful about whom one describes as "ragged and haunted" in this town! There are quite a lot of Aspies and borderline Aspies on our streets, minding their own business (and not caring what you think), and many of them are our future colleagues, bosses, or letters-to-the-editor writers. Watch your asses, watch your mouths, and pens! :)
(I say this because I got quite annoyed with someone sitting next to me at lunch, and was on the verge of being just as annoying back. I forgot to, though. Luckily, because, unbeknownst to me, he was the very annoying client I would be working with a few hours later.)