Emily Suzanne Flake (born June 16, 1977)^[1] is an American cartoonist and illustrator. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker,^[2] The New York Times, Time and many other publications. Her weekly comic strip Lulu Eightball has appeared in numerous alternative newsweeklies since 2002.^[3]

Flake was born in Manchester, Connecticut. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her influences include Winsor McCay, Harold Gray, Shel Silverstein, and Bruce Eric Kaplan^[4]

She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999.^[4]

In 2007, Flake won a Prism Award for her book These Things Ain't Gonna Smoke Themselves.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (March 2020)

• Lulu Eightball. Atomic Book Company. 2006.
• These things ain't gonna smoke themselves : a love hate love hate love letter to a very bad habit. New York: Bloomsbury. 2007.
• Lulu Eightball : volume 2. Atomic Book Company. 2009.
• Mama Tried: Dispatches from the Seamy Underbelly of Modern Parenting (Grand Central Publishing, 2015)
• That was awkward : the art and etiquette of the awkward hug. New York: Viking. 2019. ISBN 9781984879585.