It seems to me that one of your grander themes is how aware and complacent we are in terms of our own mundane badness. And we go ahead and do it anyway.” It refers to smoking, of course, but I could apply this phrase to a lot of Lulu Eightball’s adventures, too. I met Emily on a cold, wet Monday afternoon in Park Slope’s Ozzie’s Coffee and Tea to ask her about her work, her favorite reads, and how she plans to make us laugh at our many shortcomings in the future.Īllegra Frazier (Rail): There’s a line in These Things Ain’t Gonna Smoke Themselves: “Today, we all know better. In addition to those two books, Flake has an illustrated memoir, These Things Ain’t Gonna Smoke Themselves: A Love, Hate, Love, Hate, Love Letter to a Very Bad Habit (Bloomsbury, 2007), and has recently joined the prestigious ranks of cartoonists at the New Yorker. Lulu Eightball, her alt-weekly comic, has been compiled into two anthologies (20, Atomic Book Company) and syndicated in as many as 10 different papers. SiegelĮmily Flake has been illustrating our comic complacence with our own bad thoughts and behaviors for nearly a decade.
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