Comics! Bob Eckstein and Liana Finck

Bob Eckstein is an illustrator, New Yorker cartoonist, and author of the New York Times bestselling Footnotes from the Greatest Bookstores. His work frequently appears in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and MAD magazine. He is the author of Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores and, most recently, The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons. We are all critics now. From social media "likes" to reviews on Yelp and Rotten Tomatoes, we're constantly asked to give our opinion and offer feedback. Everyone’s a Critic: The Ultimate Cartoon Book (Princeton Architectural Press) edited by Bob Eckstein, is a curated collection of the best and brightest New Yorker cartoonists celebrating the art of the drawn critique, whether about restaurants, art, sports, dates, friends, or modern life. Featuring the work of thirty-six masters of the cartoon, including Roz Chast, Sam Gross, Nick Downes, Liza Donnelly, Bob Mankoff, Michael Maslin, and Mick Stevens, over half the cartoons in this book appear in print for the first time. 

  

Liana Finck is the author of Passing for Human and a regular contributor to The New Yorker. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists. She has had artist residencies with MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay. Her latest book is Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self (Random House). With her trademark, scratchy style and keen eye for the absurd, Liana Finck has amassed a large, devoted following who love the deeply insightful, delightfully odd way she describes how we all experience the world. Excuse Me assembles more than 500 of her most loved cartoons from Instagram and The New Yorker over the past few years, in such distinctive chapters as: Love & Dating; Gender & Other Politics; Animals; Art & Myth-Making; Humanity; Time, Space, and How to Navigate Them; Strangeness, Shyness, Sadness; and Notes to Self. A razor-sharp collection from the acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and Instagram sensation whom Vulture recently called “a remarkable young talent.” Melancholy and hilarious, relatable and surreal, intensely personal yet surprisingly universal, Excuse Mebrings together the best work so far by one of the most talented young comics artists working today.