Finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2015 and maintains a monthly advice column comic called Dear Pepper.[1] She appears in Very Semi-Serious, an HBO documentary about New Yorker cartoonists. The film follows Finck's early meetings with Bob Mankoff, then cartoon editor for The New Yorker, through the triumph of her first sale.[5]
She regularly posts her drawings to her Instagram account, which has over 600,000 followers.[6]
She drew the cover of the Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber single Stuck with U.[7]
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023.
Books
She received a grant from the Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists, and used the funds to create her first graphic novel, A Bintel Brief, published in 2014. The book is a collection of short stories based on early 20th-century letters written to a Yiddishadvice column of the same name.[8]
Her graphic memoir Passing For Human was published in September 2018. Vogue described the book as "a bildungsroman about an artist trying to understand her lifelong compulsion to make art."[9][10]
She published Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self, a collection of comics, in September 2019.[1] In April 2022, Finck published Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation, a graphic novel which reworks the Book of Genesis and features a female God.[11]
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