Liana Finck
The Distance Test: A Comic by Liana Finck
“You have to go away first.” “Like this?” “No. Farther.”
Liana Finck's cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker and the Awl. Her book is A Bintel Brief. She posts her drawings on Instagram @lianafinck.
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What I Miss: A List
“I miss your record player, and the sense of home you carried with you, although you’d never really been at home anywhere.”
Apr 23, 2018
How to Look at an Argument: Goodbye
“I told you all these lies because I was afraid you would leave me.”
Dec 12, 2017
How to Look at an Argument: “I Love You, Anthony.”
Once upon a time, in a land much larger than this one . . .
Nov 28, 2017
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How to Travel Through Time with Your Kindred Spirit (and Also Make a Feminist Webseries)
How much importance is seemly to place on our work and friends? How big a feeling are we allowed to feel for things that are not global calamities, or men?
Apr 03, 2018
“I was worried that no one would see me; that they would only see a Wife”: On a John Singer Sargent Painting and Marrying Young
I see two people who are entwined, but never completely, and not at the expense of their separate selves.
Jun 12, 2018
