Cartoonist Liana Finck loves art that makes you feel seen, or explains something that you’ve needed explaining. It’s exactly how her half a million Instagram followers might describe her own cartoons, which are by turns funny, angry or thoughtful, rendered in just a few jittery lines of black ink. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, and she has also authored the graphic novels Passing for Human and A Bintel Brief and the cartoon collection Excuse Me. When we This story is from Kinfolk Issue Thirty-Nine Buy Now Related Stories Arts & Culture Issue 51 Emily Gernild The Danish painter breathing new life into an old medium. Arts & Culture Food Issue 51 Imogen Kwok The artist takes food styling quite literally, creating accessories out of fruits and vegetables. Arts & Culture Issue 50 Close Knit Meet the weavers keeping traditional Egyptian tapestry-making alive. Arts & Culture Issue 50 New Roots The Palestinian agriculture collective sowing seeds of community. Arts & Culture Issue 49 Karin Mamma Andersson Inside the moody, mysterious world of Sweden’s preeminent painter. Arts & Culture Issue 49 Amalie Smith The Danish arts writer finding clarity between the lines.
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