Graphic Memoirs
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Passing for Human | 2018 | Buy |
Graphic Non-Fiction Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York | 2014 | Buy |
| Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self | 2019 | Buy |
| You Broke It! | 2024 | Buy |
| How to Baby: A No-Advice-Given Guide to Motherhood | 2024 | Buy |
| Mixed Feelings | 2025 | Buy |
Graphic Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Let There Be Light | 2022 | Buy |
Liana Finck is an American cartoonist whose spare, wobbly line drawings have become a regular feature in The New Yorker and on social media. Her work sits at the intersection of humor, memoir, and social observation, delivered through deceptively simple illustrations that often capture something true about awkwardness, loneliness, and the absurdity of daily life.
Her books range from graphic memoir (Passing for Human) to collections of her cartoons (Excuse Me, You Broke It!) to a graphic novel retelling of the Book of Genesis (Let There Be Light). What ties them together is Finck’s distinctive voice, which is self-deprecating, honest, and frequently funny. She has a knack for expressing complicated emotions in a few pen strokes and a handful of words.
Finck studied cartooning at the Rhode Island School of Design and was a Fulbright Fellow in 2010. She has also received a grant from the Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists, and her Jewish identity and heritage appear as recurring themes throughout her work.