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"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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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.)