The Cartoonist Liana Finck Picks Three Favorite Children’s Books
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Liana Fink is a cartoonist who contributes to The New Yorker. She's also the author of the graphic memoir Passing for Human and other books.
Her work has a quality of being somehow whimsical and at the same time kind of profound. And like many of her great forebearers at the magazine, she's also done children's books. Earlier this year, Liana published a book called Mixed Feelings that explores, well, just that, the ways that our emotions sometimes confuse us, and that's something that happens if you're four or you're 64. I asked Liana Fink to join me and talk about some of the illustrators who have inspired her over time.
Liana, you've been contributing amazing work, amazing cartoons to the magazine for a decade now, which seems hard to believe, and you've published children's books of your own. What's the overlap between cartoons for adults and children's books, if any? I think the children's book as we know it was kind of invented by an editor at Harper and Row named Ursula Nordström. She published E. B.
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