Liana Finck

Freelance Cartoonist at Freelance

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website: https://t.co/RVsbLLv6AT / newsletter: https://t.co/djCl5nj5Yy

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Existential Kids

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Manguso |Liana Finck
Kids Say the Most Existential Things

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Manguso |Liana Finck

Liana Finck is a cartoonist and an illustrator who has contributed to The New Yorker since 2015. She was a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and is the author of “How to Baby” and “Mixed Feelings.”
Drawings of this Moment

2 weeks ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

Hi Everyone,This is a post of drawings, which my occupied/unoccupied brain has been thinking in feverishly - weirdly, being home with a baby puts me back in the pre-kid state where I️ spent a lot of time wandering around, riding subways, going to and from things, idly coming up with little drawings. (The hormones don’t hurt, either).
Feelings

3 weeks ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

First, before my post-partum brain forgets, Bookshop has given our readers a delicious 15 percent discount on my and Sarah Manguso’s new book Questions Without Answers. You can pre-order here and use the code QA15. This is a bit from a project I’ve been working on for the past couple of years. I’ve been wanting to show it to you for a long long time because I’ve been working on it quietly and I’d really like to hear what you think of it.
10 THINGS: Florals, Feelings, Fruition

3 weeks ago | goodenoughjob.substack.com | Sophie Johnson |Liana Finck

Ah, My Patient and Indefatigable Friends,Coming at you with a rowboat of recommendations this week: a children’s book, an adult book, a trick with a rubber band, a truly mind-bogglingly easy-and-good recipe. The first three are free; seven more below the paywall. Spring,SophieREAD (TO YOUR [INNER] KID): “Mixed Feelings” by Liana FinckAll-of-a-sudden, my 3-year-old is requiring 20 new books a week from the library.
Mag & Gag Cartoonists in News

1 month ago | dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg |Liana Finck

Skip to content →2025→03→25→Cartooning→Illustration→Interviews→Magazine cartoons→Mag & Gag Cartoonists in News What is your process for writing a cartoon? How many drafts does it take to get to the perfect, pithy final? Do you think there’s some inherent brilliance in brevity? I do think there’s an inherent brilliance in brevity. That said, my cartoons tend to be better when I have time to go through a number of drafts. I don’t always, but I pay for it when I don’t.
Questions Without Answers

1 month ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

I wanted to let you know, Questions Without Answers, a book Sarah Manguso and I made is out April 29th. This book is a collection of the kinds of questions kids ask that at first seem wildly out of left field, but only because they‚Äôre actually truer and deeper than the stuff of daily life. They are also unanswerable.
Moving Day

1 month ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

Hi Everyone. This week’s newsletter is about doing everything: specifically moving an entire family while very pregnant. The move was terrible, and it’s already hard to write about, because you can’t write while you’re doing something so hectic, and you can’t remember afterwards. Everyone agrees that moving is awful, but it still feels like it’s particularly awful only for me. It started a month ago, with packing. First books and summer clothes, then toys, then plates and cups, then linens and coats.
Contractor Content. Exclusive Cartoons.

1 month ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

This week I’m going to post some more New Yorker cartoon rejects. I’d like to write something more essay-like (not because an essay is better but because I️ can’t bear to part with them) but WE’RE MOVING (oh and also I’m about to give birth) and my brain feels like a dense fruit cake, the less said about that the better. I do keep having ideas for drawings, but they’re unusable, like the drawing ideas you have in a dream. In this case, they’re exclusively about contractors.
On Being Married in a Hectic Time

1 month ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

Hello again. Every week, I make cartoons for the New Yorker, the dear, always two-steps-ahead pinnacle of culture that represents, more than anything else, New York, sophistication, wit, and in some specific ways America, and which celebrates its hundredth birthday this month. Under ideal circumstances, I spend two or three days a week drawing cartoons for the magazine, and, under ideal circumstances, the magazine buys one. I’ve almost never published the ones they don’t buy. Why?

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Liana Finck @lianafinck

6 Dec 24

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4 Dec 24

A few drawings from this week’s free Substack. You can sign up for free or paid (not telling you what’s in there, it’s secret) at the link in my bio or google Liana Finck Substack. https://t.co/31Q7PKm2Ko https://t.co/qGp4Dpz0L4

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3 Dec 24

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Articles

Existential Kids

Kids Say the Most Existential Things

Drawings of this Moment

Feelings

10 THINGS: Florals, Feelings, Fruition

Mag & Gag Cartoonists in News

Questions Without Answers

Moving Day

Contractor Content. Exclusive Cartoons.

On Being Married in a Hectic Time

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Emails

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