Liana Finck has amassed an impressive following of over 600,000 people who can’t get enough of her work. If you come across it, you may not know what to make of it at first. It’s not trying to be beautiful works of art. On the contrary, it goes out of its way to seem crude and imperfect—which is part of its charm.
Finck is a comic artist, and it’s clear that dry humor is a big part of her intent. The main aspect of her appeal is the text she writes with the art, and how it culminates together for a show-stopping, hilarious result.
She brings laughter to everyone’s day in quirky fashion, and it’s not always because you understand the joke. In fact, there isn’t always a “joke”. Much of Finck’s charm is in its subtlety, and the way it leaves so much open to interpretation.
Her comics can be as basic as an unseen force telling a person “you chose wrong”, or someone seeing an acquaintance after a long time and blurting out, “Pop quiz! What’s my name?” It doesn’t always need to make sense, and in a weird way, it sometimes makes even more sense when it makes less sense.
After all, so much of life tends to be confusing and surreal, so perhaps this is why her comics have struck such a poignant chord with the world.
