Introducing Mixed Feelings

I don't know about you, but it’s been a week of feelings over here. 

Big ones, vague ones, new ones, old ones, selfish ones, communal ones, all piled on top of each other and vying for attention. Grief, fear, despair, resignation, rage, gratitude for what we still have. 

I’m not sure if I was intuiting what was to come, but appropriately (?) enough I have a new book coming out called Mixed Feelings on January 21 with Penguin Rise (thank you to my wonderful editor Cecily Kaiser, and the two fabulous art directors I worked with, Meagan Bennett and Maria Elias).

It's a book about those feelings that are layered and tricky to articulate to ourselves and others. It was written with children in mind, but as we see, the feelings and the need to put them into words doesn't go away when we grow up. 

You can pre-order it for a kid or a grown-up or an inbetweener here.

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A few iPhone photos of the book to give you an idea. (When you tell people you’re a cartoonist, they often say “I️ can’t even draw a stick figure!” Which really does tell you they don’t understand cartooning - but not in the way they think. Well, I️ am not a photographer; I️ put off photographing this book for days from dread I’d catch my finger in the picture or something. It looks a lot better than these pictures, and I️ wish I️ could have done it justice).

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Some other things I’ve made this week: a post-election online piece for the New Yorker.

You can see the full article here:

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A new(ish) Dear Pepper (my online advice column for The New Yorker) – this one very close to my heart.

Full article here.

By the way, I️ desperately need some new questions, so send any you have in to dearpepperquestions@gmail.com - I️ personally prefer questions about nothing-much minutia, but I️ answer any and all, even the big operatic ones.

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Something pre-despair for New York Magazine. 

(Read the very funny article that went with it – if you can bear to go back to the before-times – here)

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A few recent New Yorker cartoons. (You can find ALL New Yorker cartoons in the New Yorker, which you should subscribe to).

Finally, a drawing just because.

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PS Want a print of something? Go here.

Want a print of something Jewish? Go here.

I'm glad you're here,

Liana

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