New York Comics Community collection, 2001-2017

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Dabaie, Marguerite

Marguerite Dabaie is a prominent indie cartoonist, whose work often deals with her Palestinian-American heritage. In addition to her comics and illustration work, she maintains a series of sketchbooks in which she sketches a daily comic strip.



Box 2 Folder 2 Sketchbook #3, 2011-2012, 1 volume

(2020.2021.M069)

Flake, Emily

A cartoonist, writer, performer. teacher, and illustrator. Flake has had cartoons published in The New Yorker, MAD Magazine, and the New Statesman. She had a weekly strip called Lulu Eightball that carried the jokes that are too vulgar for grown-up publications and too racy for MAD. She also does a bi-weekly cartoon for The Nib, usually about current political or cultural topics.


"'Parent' as a Verb" series for The New Yorker:



Box 1 Folder 1 "Haunted by pre-mom version of yourself", May 16, 2018


Box 1 Folder 2 "Mommy rage", February 28, 2018


Box 1 Folder 3 "Bullying", March 21, 2018


Box 1 Folder 4 "Sleep training", January 24, 2018

Johnson, Carolita

A New Yorker cartoonist who has been creating illustrated essays for Longreads.com. This essay, "A woman's work," details her relationship with her late husband, also a New Yorker cartoonist, and examines the sacrifices women artists are forced to make for their partners.


"A woman's work":


Box 1 Folder 5 Roughs and original art. The work is ink on board with visible blue pencil, and includes process materials.

Kuper, Peter

Peter Kuper's illustrations and comics have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world including The New Yorker and MAD where he has written and illustrated SPY vs. SPY every issue since 1997. He is the co-founder of World War 3 Illustrated a political comix magazine and has produced over two dozen books including Sticks and Stones, The System, Diario de Oaxaca, Ruins (winner of the 2016 Eisner Award) and adaptations of many of Franz Kafka's works into comics including The Metamorphosis. His most recent graphic novel is Kafkaesque.

He has been teaching comics courses at The School of Visual Arts since 1987 and is a visiting professor at Harvard University.


"September 11, 2001":



Box 2 Folder 1 Roughs and original art.

Rehr, Henrik


Tribeca Sunset:



Mapcase 15-H-16 Two pages of original art of the experience of 9/11


David Crook: souvenirs d'un revolution


Mapcase 15-H-16 Two pages, with process sketches, focus on his arrival in the United States and his time as a student at Columbia University.

Sacco, Kevin



Box 2 Folder 3 "Josephine" Slave Labor Graphics, 2017. Two page of pencil art and one page of ink process sketch

Both have a strong sense of Manhattan place. Sacco, who has published three graphic novels, grew up on the Upper West Side, and, like the boy in his book, was often left in the care of a nanny.

(2019.2020.M072)

Weinstein, Lauren R.

I am a cartoonist, illustrator, painter and avid gardener who lives in scenic New Jersey with my family and dog, Dr. Buddy.

I have published three books: Girl Stories, Inside Vineyland and Goddess of War.

My work has been included in The Best American Comics, An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Kramer's Ergot, and The Graphic Cannon.

I have won and been nominated for an Ignatz. This year "Carriers" was also nominated for Slate's studio prize for Cartoonists. Carriers won a gold medal from The Society of Illustrators.


"Being an Artist and a Mother":

The New Yorker, July 24 2018.



Mapcase 15-H-13 Four pages of original art and many versions of process material for this moving meditation on balancing art and motherhood, inspired by a Paula Modersohn-Becker painting from 1906. Graphite, colored pencil, ink, and watercolor on drawing board, with many paste-downs.


"Last Year Recap…":

Normel Person in theVillage Voice, September 20 2017.


Mapcase 15-H-13 This installment of Weinstein's weekly comic for the Village Voice (now available at Popula.com) ran in the last print edition of the long-running alt-weekly.