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fromThe New Yorker
1 day agoLiana Finck on William Steig
Liana Finck is a cartoonist and illustrator linked to The New Yorker, a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, known for How to Baby and Mixed Feelings.
In the aughts, after growing disenchanted with his dream of becoming a Disney animator, he decided cartooning would be his lot in life. When he learned, in the wake of the Great Recession, that The New Yorker was the primary outlet still publishing cartoons, cracking the code of America's idiosyncratic intellectual stand-by became his mission. Until that point, The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Ren & Stimpy, and South Park had been his guiding lights ("all those '90s dudes").