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 2007, Flake won a Prism Award for her book These Things Ain't Gonna Smoke Themselves.