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Hi there. I'm Emily. I'm a cartoonist-writer-performer-teacher-illustrator. I like hyphens, apparently.

I live in Brooklyn, NY, with my husband, our daughter, and an absurdly large cat.

I make cartoons for The New Yorker, mostly, but also sometimes MAD Magazine, the New Statesman, and other places. I had a weekly strip called Lulu Eightball that carried the jokes that are too vulgar for grown-up publications and too racy for MAD, back when alt-weeklies were strong and we were young. I also do a bi-weekly cartoon for The Nib, usually about whatever the political or cultural shitstorm du jour is.

I am a member of the WGA East and wrote on this series directed by Steven Soderbergh.

I also perform - a hybrid of cartoons and stand-up wherein I show cartoons via the magic of PowerPoint and then tell funny stories. Would it help if I called it stand-up cartooning? That sounds more concise. I have done this at Union Hall, the Bell House, QED Astoria, UCBEast, and a bunch of other places from the fancy to the hopelessly vile.

I am also the proprietress of St. Nell’s Humor Writing Residency in Williamsport, PA.

The links on this site will tell you more about all of this, as well as how to get in touch with me, which I hope you do.

Courage,

Emily