![]() ![]() I couldn’t have picked a better, more fun bunch of ladies (and men! and babies!). Though I will say that I was so pleasantly surprised by the women I met through my own mothers’ group ( Cortelyou Moms Summer ’12 FTW! Wooohoo!). Maybe I just need to do laundry more often. What surprised you the most about this stage of parenthood, and how did you find your way back to the land of the living?Īm I in that land yet? My daughter is three and I still seem to be covered in effluvia of one kind or another. It wasn’t until I got up the nerve to meet with moms in the Park Slope Parents “2010 Spring Babies” group that I began to realize there really were other sleep-deprived, snot-covered parents out there looking for support and camaraderie. In the book, you talk about how isolating those early days of parenthood can be - something that I wasn’t prepared for, and had a very difficult time with. Well sometimes when a mommy and daddy love each other very much… honestly, having a child was both a source of great material and a big fire lit under my rear - kids are notoriously bad earners, so it was time to step up, productivity-wise. We love it very much, and have a small shrine to our landlords that we pray to in hopes of never getting kicked out. We’ve lived in Windsor Terrace for five years - a tiny blip by the standards of the neighborhood. What brought you to your corner of Brooklyn, and how long have you lived in the neighborhood? SSN: First of all, tell us a bit about yourself.Įmily Flake: The elevator-pitch version: A writer, illustrator, and New Yorker cartoonist living in Brooklyn with my husband, daughter, and a small orange cat. We caught up with Emily to talk about her hilarious new book, Mama Tried, her go-to neighborhood favorites, and what it’s like to raise a kid in Brooklyn. Gummy smiles, coos, peaceful walks through Prospect Park, and the overwhelming joy that comes when that sweet babe falls gently asleep in your arms.ĭon’t get me wrong, those things totally happened, but they were also intertwined with hysterical crying (from both me and the baby), exploding diapers, raging hormones, and sleepless nights where I found myself begging the kid to just Go The F**ck To Sleep.īringing up baby is definitely not the fairytale we imagined, but Windsor Terrace author and illustrator Emily Flake is here to show us that we’re all journeying through this “seamy underbelly of modern parenting” together. When we discovered that I was pregnant, after five long years of fertility issues, I envisioned all the magical parenting moments that were no doubt headed our way. 5 min read Emily Flake (Photo by John Pastore).Subscribe to Tight Five, our free weekly newsletter with comedy tips, funny reads, and entertaining reccos. I watched her on MTV’s Half-Hour Comedy Hour, and I think it was a Spring Break edition where she made fun of Gerardo and they booed her she was a total badass about it, and I just remember watching with my heart pounding and thinking I WANT THIS Was there one person who inspired you to become a comedian? If so, who, why, how? I actually kind of love it because I used it in an essay about my life goals when I was nine. Favorite response to “What’s it like to be a woman in comedy”? Best comedy advice you ever got?Ĭomedy, life, anything – be kind and reliable. The sweet sweet irresistible drug of making people laugh. What’s your first impulse when someone says “women aren’t funny”?įlick ‘em in the nuts and laugh hysterically When you were coming up in comedy, what helped you stick with it? KNOW THYSELF (and then I’d die before attributing). On your deathbed, what transcendent advice would you croak at a young comedian? Pretty droopy with lots of feelings! But I did a fanzine cause I was trying to be #PunkAsFuck and I did funny (?) comics for it. What were you like as a teen? (Did you have comedy #goals? Were you already funny, or not so much?) Technically not even comedy, but still gives me chills – I’d been hired to do a cartooning event with Zach Kanin and we had no idea what we were doing we got up and ate shit for two solid hours IN FRONT OF KIDS while I watched the project head’s face go from alarm to disappointment to anger. ![]() ![]() But I once got to shut it down with a “fewer” correction to his “less” (in person, not online! Felt glorious). Emily is the writer and illustrator behind a book of cartoon essays called Mama Tried It. Emily performs a quarterly-ish show called Shitshow with NPR’s Ophira Eisenberg, and a monthly show called NIGHTMARES with comedian Kat Burdick. She makes cartoons for The New Yorker, mostly, but also sometimes MAD Magazine, the New Statesman, and other places. Emily is a cartoonist-writer-performer-teacher-illustrator based in Brooklyn. ![]()
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